African Americans constitute 15.1 percent of Arkansas’s population, according to the 2020 census, and they h...

Agriculture has played a major role in Arkansas’s culture from territorial times, when farmers made up more ...

Arkansas’s regional identity is a complex affair, given that the state overlaps the cultural and geographica...

Arkansas’s cultural record may begin on the state’s eastern edge, with a painted buffalo skin made by the ...

Business, commerce, and industry in Arkansas developed with the help of Arkansas’s natural resources. In the...

In the last years of the 1850s, Arkansas enjoyed an economic boom that was unparalleled in its history. But in...

In November 2004, President George W. Bush joined former presidents George H. W. Bush and Jimmy Carter to spea...

Arkansas faced a number of opportunities and challenges in the first four decades of the twentieth century. No...

Education has been evolving since the first humans arrived in Arkansas. By the late nineteenth century, as Ame...

Formal education above the high school level came to be known as higher education in the twentieth century. In...

Arkansas’s physical environment features a mild climate, adequate rainfall, a rural and relatively uncrowded...

The region that became Arkansas was unknown to Europeans until the 1540s. Fifty years after Christopher Columb...

When English antiquarian William J. Thoms introduced his new coinage “folk-lore” in 1846, he intended it a...

Because nutrition is essential to human survival, the production and consumption of food has been central to l...

Geography has played an important and continuing role in the history and culture of Arkansas. From settlement ...

Arkansas long had a reputation for being sickly because much of the state supported large mosquito populations...

Arkansas has an active preservation community with a notable success record in saving buildings, sites, and ne...

Law develops out of the customs practiced by groups of people. In Arkansas, as in other places, the law has ev...

Arkansas’s place in Southern American literature is partly a result of its place on the map. The eastern bor...

A century of French and Spanish imperial control had little permanent effect on Arkansas, leaving it with fewe...

For a small state with regard to population and geography, Arkansas has a surprisingly large number of mass me...

Arkansas’s military history began sometime after the first Paleoindian hunter-gatherers arrived. Territorial...

Arkansas was home to Native Americans long before Europeans arrived. The first explorers met Indians whose anc...

“Arkansas,” its leading newspaper once lamented, “has too much politics.” But while the state has seen...

In the years that followed Reconstruction, Arkansas experienced changes that paralleled trends taking place el...

The pre-European history of Arkansas begins 13,500 years ago in the Pleistocene epoch, when cold weather preva...

Recreation and sports have long been vital to Arkansas. Recreation has been important in Arkansas since prehis...

The number of people in Arkansas who believe in and practice a religious faith has always been high, with the ...

Arkansas has had a rather conflicted relationship with science and technology throughout its history. On the o...

The term “tourism,” meaning “traveling as a recreation,” was not common in the nineteenth century, nor...

The systems of conveyance both through and within Arkansas involve routes that include land, air, and water. B...

From prehistoric times through the French and Spanish colonial eras, from the territorial period through state...