Arkansas History

Residents near Wilson Park are working with city planners to create the Oak Grove Historic District. This proposed local historic district would add protections beyond the National Register designation that the area already holds. The petition-driven effort is now moving through Fayetteville’s approval process.

Historian Jared Phillips joins Ozarks at Large for a conversation about who identifies as an Ozarker, how geography and culture shape the region, and why maps of the Ozarks are more complicated than they seem.

On today's show, we’ll discuss a new study that finds rural cancer survivors in Arkansas are more likely to respond to surveys mailed or conducted over the phone. We’ll also explore just how far the Ozarks extend beyond Missouri and Arkansas, and hear about some of the images featured in The Momentary’s new exhibit, "The Greatest Wildlife Photographs."

Pryor Center archives revisit the 2004 opening of the Clinton Presidential Center with recordings from four presidents, reporters on the ground and the music that marked a historic day in Little Rock.

Arkansas PBS and the University of Arkansas Humanities Center will host a free screening and discussion of Ken Burns’ "The American Revolution" at the Faulkner Performing Arts Center, featuring local scholars exploring the state’s ties to early American history.

Justin Minor, cultural anthropologist, describes both where Ozarks folk magic practices come from as well as what makes them unique.

On today's show, Avanza Arkansas and the Community Creative Center are coming together to celebrate Dia De Muertos in support of the state’s ALICE families. Also, NWA Makers are returning to the Washington County Fairgrounds for the Maker Market. Plus, news from the River Valley with Talk Business & Politics.

In this edition of Archives from the Pryor Center, Randy Dixon and Kyle Kellams recount the 1988 abduction of newborn Christopher Michael Jones from a Little Rock hospital and the emotional, weeks-long search that ended in his safe return.

Executive director Rachel Patton joins Ozarks at Large to discuss the 2025 list of Arkansas’s most endangered places, including Fayetteville’s Duncan Hill neighborhood and East Mountain Cemetery, and what it takes to preserve the state’s architectural and cultural history.

On today's show, the University of Arkansas Herbarium is celebrating its 150th anniversary. Plus, two Fayetteville sites are on the Most Endangered Places list compiled by Preserve Arkansas. Also, details on the Ozark Painter, Makers and Shakers Art Crawl in Jasper.