Charles William Adams served as a Confederate general in Arkansas. A planter and lawyer from Helena (Phillips ...

On July 17, 1885, an African American man named David Akles (sometimes referred to as Ackles) was hanged in He...

John Hanks Alexander was the second African American graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Po...

Dorathy N. McDonald Allen was the first woman to serve in the Arkansas Senate, serving from 1964 to 1974 in th...

Richard Allin was a journalist and humorist who for thirty years wrote the popular “Our Town” column for t...

There are three cases that may be designated as Arkansas v. Corbit. The case discussed here is the 1998 Arkans...

Alfred (Alf) Banks was one of twelve African-American men accused of murder following the Elaine Massacre of 1...

Batteries A, B, C, and D are fortifications used by the Federal army during the Civil War to protect the city ...

Battery E, Second U.S. Colored Artillery (Light) was one of two artillery units raised in Arkansas during the ...

In 1906 and 1907, a notable case made its way through the courts. An African-American man named Govan Beard wa...

Gene Bearden was a major league baseball player in the late 1940s and early 1950s. After serving in World War ...

Bruce Bennett was Arkansas’s attorney general from 1957 to 1960 and from 1963 to 1966. As the state’s lead...

Born and educated in western New York state, John Emory Bennett moved to Arkansas after the Civil War and had ...

Calvin Comins Bliss was in search of challenges when he and his new wife Caroline came to Arkansas from New En...

Bound in slavery on a cotton farm near Helena (Phillips County), West Bogan fought and killed his subjugator...

Caroline Shawk Brooks was the first American sculptor known to have worked in and mastered the medium of butte...

Joseph Brooks was a Methodist minister who came to Arkansas during the Civil War. He played a prominent role i...

William Sanford Brooks was a young soldier from Iowa who fought in the Battle of Prairie Grove and later becam...

Eagleton Carmichael was an officer in the Fifteenth Illinois Cavalry Regiment who saw extensive action leading...

Nathan Carter, who was hanged at Helena (Phillips County) on January 19, 1893, was one of two African American...

The 1905 Gothic Revival Centennial Baptist Church, located at York and Columbia streets in Helena-West Helena ...

The Cherry Street Historic District is an area in downtown Helena-West Helena (Phillips County) that was added...

Alida Clawson Clark, an Indiana Quaker who co-founded Southland College, arrived in Arkansas with her husband,...

Calvin Clark was a prominent Quaker leader and educator in post–Civil War Arkansas. With his wife, Alida Cla...

Moses Aaron Clark rose from slavery to become one of the most successful African American Arkansans of his tim...

James Paul Clarke, eighteenth governor of Arkansas and a United States senator, became an advocate of the silv...

Patrick Ronayne Cleburne became the highest-ranking Irish-born officer in American military history, attaining...

Ed Coleman was one of twelve African American men accused of murder and sentenced to death following the Elain...

The Coolidge House, built in Helena-West Helena (Phillips County) in 1880, is an example of a Queen Anne–sty...

Angie Craig is a Minnesota congresswoman. In April 2025, in her fourth term representing Minnesota’s Second ...

Samuel Ryan Curtis was the Union general responsible for the victory at the Battle of Pea Ridge, the capture o...

Ellis CeDell Davis was a blues musician and recording artist who helped bring blues from its rural Southern ro...