- Ozark Folk Center
Preserving the region's culture, music, and crafts. Offers activities for people of all ages.
www.ozarkfolkcenter.com
- Integration of Little Rock Central High School@
Learn about the Integration of Little Rock Central High School, an event where nine black students were denied entrance to the school. Sites include Articles, history, audio, videos, and pictures on the act that defied the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling ordering integration of public schools.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Civil_Rights_Movement/Integration_of_Little_Rock_Central_High_School
- Life Interrupted
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An effort to preserve the lives and memories of Japanese Americans interned at camps in Rohwer and Jerome, Arkansas.
www.lifeinterrupted.org
- Arkansas Historic Preservation Program
Identifies, evaluates, registers, and preserves the state's historic and cultural resources and seeks to instill a preservation ethic in Arkansans.
www.arkansaspreservation.org
- Civil War in Arkansas
Guide to people, places, and resources concerning our state's Civil War heritage.
www.civilwarbuff.org
- Pea Ridge National Military Park
Site of the successful culmination of a federal effort to secure control of Missouri and the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, protect the arsenal at St. Louis and allow Gen. Grant's Vicksburg campaign to be supplied.
www.nps.gov/peri
- Old State House Museum
Museum of Arkansas' history, people, and culture.
www.oldstatehouse.org
- Arkansas Post National Memorial
Commemorates the complex history of the trading post established by Henri de Tonti in 1686 and later used by the French, Spanish, American, and Confederate militaries.
www.nps.gov/arpo
- Faulkner County Historical Society
Preserving the history of Faulkner County, Arkansas. Site features articles, membership info, and more.
www.faulknerhistory.com
- Polson / Polston / Ferguson
History of the immediate family of William G. Polson and Elizabeth Ferguson, who settled in Washington County, Arkansas.
www.virtualpet.com/genealogy/polson/myfamily/history/phistory.htm
- 7th Arkansas Infantry
Reenactment group which portrays the average soldier who left Arkansas to fight for the Confederacy in the Army of Tennessee.
www.7tharkansas.org
- Arkansas History Commission and State Archives
www.state.ar.us/ahc
- Life in Confederate Arkansas
Surveys the daily life of Arkansans during the war. From Arkansas Historical Quarterly.
peace.saumag.edu/swark/articles/ahq/arkansas/confederatelife/confederatelif...
- Cleveland County Genealogy
Offers county history, databases, and other resources.
www.rootsweb.com/~arclevel
- Woodruff County History and Genealogy
www.rootsweb.com/~arwoodru
- Arkansas GenWeb Project@
dir.yahoo.com/.../History/Genealogy
- Coal Mining in Johnson County
Attempting to describe the people who worked in the mines as well as their family and working conditions.
165.29.91.7/armem/ross/index.htm
- Moments in Time
Photograph collection of events in Arkansas.
asms.k12.ar.us/armem/jacksonp/index.htm
- Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial in Arkansas, The
Offers events calendar, history, and resources.
www.lapurchase.org
- Hiram F. Willis, Freedmen's Bureau Agent in Southwestern Arkansas
Article by William L. Richter describing Willis's effort to assist newly freed African Americans after the Civil War.
peace.saumag.edu/swark/articles/ahq/southwest_arkansas/willis/willis158.htm...
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