Category: Uncategorized - Starting with F

On this Valentine’s Day, we’re thinking about love in the Natural State, turning our focus to some Arkansas couples who have made an impact on the state, nation, and world. Click on the names in the title of each to read the full entry on the CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Dale Evans and Roy Rogers Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash Elton and Betty White Dale Bumpers and Betty Bumpers Lucious Christopher (L. C.) Bates and Daisy Bates Thaddeus Caraway and Hattie Caraway

It’s hard to tell when you’ve turned the corner from one historical epoch to another. In fact, the argument could be made that very rarely is the break from one period to another so clean. Sitting in front of my television on September 11, 2001, the world felt like it had suddenly tilted hard, that nothing would be the same. But at a remove of more than twenty years, it becomes easier to see what happened post-9/11 as existing along the continuum of what came before. The United States intervened militarily in other nations but did not formally declare war, for example, continuing a “tradition” that followed World War II. Or you could also point out that the United States …