Arkansas history

The 19th-century Wilhauf House in Van Buren is newly restored and will soon become a training and research site for the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith.

The 19th-century Wilhauf House in Van Buren is newly restored and will soon become a training and research site for the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith.

We present an archive edition of our Pryor Center Profiles. In 2020 Randy Dixon explained the story of the musical ensemble The Group and their history in…

Long before Arkansas was a state, French missionaries came to the land alongside the Mississippi River. Linda Jones writes about their experiences in her…

The next edition of Arkansas Stories is centered on stories of Japanese Americans interred in Arkansas, Italian and German POWs held in the state during…

Today, Pete Hartman speaks with Kimberly Hosey from the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History about an upcoming event, Arkansas Symbols Day, in which the museum…

An incomplete examination of this month in history for Arkansas and the Ozarks includes Henry Fonda, Pretty Boy Floyd and gospel music.

The Major League Baseball All-Star Game is tonight. Arkansas native Sherm Lollar played in eight such games but is not enshrined in Cooperstown. Jerry…

Our latest incomplete guide to the week in history celebrates one of the towering figures in Arkansas musical history. Plus catfish in Ozark and happy…

A new book, "The Square Book: An Illustrated History of the Fayetteville Square, 1828-2016" documents nearly everything that has happened on the…