Arkansas History

Randy Dixon of the Pryor Center revisits KATV's 1976 bicentennial documentary on Arkansas governors from Sid McMath through David Pryor.

Randy Dixon of the Pryor Center revisits KATV's 1976 bicentennial documentary, covering the Arkansas Traveler, the Civil War, WWI, WWII, the UofA's founding and Arkansas's bauxite history.

The Arkansas Folklife Festival — a free, three-day celebration of the state's six cultural regions — comes to Riverfront Park in North Little Rock June 26-28, headlined by Bobby Rush and Lucinda Williams.

Historian Jared Phillips joins Ozarks at Large to trace the history of beef cattle in the Ozarks, from open-range grazing before the Civil War to today's cattle market.

Randy Dixon from the Pryor Center shares clips from KATV's four-part 1976 bicentennial documentary on Arkansas history, covering de Soto, David O. Dodd, the Great Depression and the McClellan-Kerr waterway.

Historian Kaylee Cook won an Arkansas Historical Association award for her research into how Gerald L.K. Smith's Christ of the Ozarks created lasting tensions between economics and values in Eureka Springs.

The Washington Elementary Tour of Homes turns 20 this year. The self-guided tour features seven Fayetteville stops, including a Sears catalog home and a Civil War-era property

A Little Rock collector brings rare stereoview photographs of the 1880 Fayetteville tornado to the Fayetteville Public Library Saturday for a free presentation with local historian J.B. Hogan.

Hall director Nicole Muszynski transformed Gibson Hall's lobby with archival photos of University of Arkansas women, drawing parallels to the 2023 Barbie film and her own story as a first-gen American.

Randy Dixon and Kyle Kellams preview a Pryor Center panel with former KATV anchors Steve Barnes, Amy Oliver Barnes and Bob Steel, featuring archival footage from Arkansas TV's golden era.