Caddo Indians enter written history in chronicles of the Hernando de Soto expedition, which describe encounter...

June Carter-Perry is a former educator, diplomat, and U.S. State Department official. Her lengthy and multi-fa...

Ben E. Carter, following in his father’s footsteps, got an Ivy League education and developed a stellar law ...

Gilbert Richard Cook, born in Texarkana (Miller County), was a career U.S. Army officer who served in France i...

On February 20, 1892, Edward Coy, a thirty-two-year-old African-American man, was burned at the stake in Texar...

The Crenshaw Site was a large village and ceremonial center occupied from about AD 700 to 1400 along the Red R...

Carol Dalby of Texarkana (Miller County) began serving in the Arkansas House of Representatives in 2017, repre...

Anthony Davis, an African-American man, was lynched in Texarkana (Miller County) on October 9, 1906, reportedl...

Willie Davis was a millionaire business executive, civic leader, and former football standout who grew up in M...

Dehahuit, hereditary chief of the Kadohadacho Caddo community of Native Americans at the time of the Louisiana...

Wayne Dowd was a lawyer and politician from Texarkana (Miller County) who accumulated power and influence duri...

James Harris Draughon was a prominent businessman and civic booster in Arkansas and Texas following the Civil ...

Fouke is located eleven miles south of Texarkana (Miller County) on U.S. Highway 71 and Interstate 549 in Mill...

Fouke (Miller County) is a small town in southwest Arkansas that attracted attention in the early 1970s when a...

The city of Garland is on the Red River in eastern Miller County. U.S. Highway 82 crosses the river at Garland...

Lawrence Preston Graves served as the second auxiliary Roman Catholic bishop for the Diocese of Little Rock, w...

Loy Haley, an African-American man, was lynched on June 15, 1915, likely near Lewisville (Lafayette County), f...

Billy James Hargis was a fundamentalist Christian minister who asserted that large segments of the American po...

On June 3, 1898, Bud Hayden was lynched in Texarkana (Miller County) for allegedly assaulting twelve-year-old ...

Thomas Melvin Hinton was a classically trained artist who produced many realistic and impressionistic oil pain...

Known as the “King of Ragtime,” Scott Joplin composed more than forty ragtime piano pieces, including “M...

Vocalist Jeff Keith is best known for his work as lead singer of the popular American “hair metal” band Te...

William Fosgate Kirby was an associate justice on the Arkansas Supreme Court and also served as state attorney...

The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972) was the first in a series of three Boggy Creek films loosely based on a legen...

The historical riverport community of Lost Prairie is located in modern-day Miller County, in an area along tw...

Arkansas’s southwestern quarter was the ancestral homeland of the Caddo Nation, now headquartered in Binger,...

The Reverend Finis Ewing Maddox was vice president of Maddox Seminary in Little Rock (Pulaski County), having ...

Miller County’s location in southwest Arkansas made it the “Gateway to the Southwestern United States” t...

The Miller County Courthouse, dedicated in 1939, is located at 400 Laurel Street in downtown Texarkana (Miller...

Samuel Conlon Nancarrow composed innovative music and produced a body of work largely for player piano. Accord...