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A. M. Bohnert Rice Plantation Pump No. 2 Engine
Located on the southeast corner of the junction of U.S. Highway 165 and Post Bayou Lane near Gillett (Arkansas...
Aaron v. Cooper
aka: Cooper v. Aaron
Aaron v. Cooper, reversed by the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Ci...
Abernathy Spring
Abernathy Spring is a mineral spring located in Polk County, 2.8 km (1.75 mi.) east of the unincorporated comm...
Abortion
Abortion is defined as either a spontaneous early ending of a pregnancy (a.k.a. miscarriage) or an induced ear...
Acanthocephalans
aka: Spiny-Headed Worms
aka: Thorny-Headed Worms
These cylindrical metazoan worms, superficially similar to nematode...
Accomplices to the Crime
Accomplices to the Crime is penologist Thomas O. Murton’s 1969 nonfiction account of his efforts to reform t...
Acme Brick Company
Acme Brick Company began operation in 1891 and is now the largest American-owned brick and masonry manufacture...
Act 10 of 1958 [Affidavit Law]
A special session of the Arkansas General Assembly passed Act 10 in 1958 as one of sixteen bills designed to b...
Act 112 of 1909
aka: Anti-Nightriding Law
aka: Anti-Whitecapping Law
Act 112 of 1909 was a law designed to curb the practice of nightrid...
Act 115 of 1959 [Anti-NAACP Law]
In 1959, the Arkansas General Assembly passed Act 115 as one of sixteen bills designed to bypass federal deseg...
Act 1220 of 2003
aka: Childhood Obesity Act
Act 1220 of 2003, which launched comprehensive efforts to curb chil...
Act 151 of 1859
aka: Act to Remove the Free Negroes and Mulattos from the State
aka: Arkansas's Free Negro Expulsion Act of 1859
The Arkansas General Assembly passed a bill in February 1859 that b...
Act 250 of 2021
aka: Stand-Your-Ground Law
On March 3, 2021, Governor Asa Hutchinson signed into law Act ...
Act 258 of 1909
aka: Toney Bill to Prevent Lynching
Act 258 of 1909 was a law intended to prevent citizens from engagin...
Act 346 of 2021
Act 346 of 2021, titled “An Act to Prohibit the Performance of a Pelvic Examination on an Unconscious or Ane...
Act 38 of 1971
Act 38 of 1971, which reorganized sixty state government agencies into thirteen cabinet-level departments, was...
Act 401 of 1951
aka: Communist Registration Act
Also called the Communist Registration Act, Act 401 was approved in...
Act 626 of 2021
aka: Save Adolescents from Experimentation Act
aka: HB 1570
Act 626 of 2021 was the first ever bill passed in the United State...
Act 710 of 2017
aka: Anti-BDS Law
Act 710 of 2017 is a law intended “to prohibit public entitie...
Act 76 of 1983
aka: Teacher Testing Law
Act 76 of 1983 was a law passed by the Arkansas General Assembly ma...
Act 910 of 2019
aka: Transformation and Efficiencies Act of 2019
Act 910 of 2019 was a piece of signature legislation for Governor A...
Act 911 of 1989
aka: Arkansas Conditional Release Program
Act 911 of 1989 pertains to the evaluation, commitment, and conditi...
Act 975 of 2015
aka: Religious Freedom Restoration Act
The Arkansas Religious Freedom Restoration Act (SB975 of the 2015 r...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Arkansas Sections of)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), best known by his pen na...
Adverse Possession
Cornell Law School defines adverse possession as “a doctrine under which a person in possession of land owne...
African American Perspectives Northeast Arkansas
The quarterly African American Perspectives Northeast Arkansas magazine was established in Jonesboro (Craighea...
The Aftermath of the Civil War in Arkansas
Written by the ninth governor of Arkansas, Powell Clayton, The Aftermath of the Civil War in Arkansas recounts...
Agricultural Adjustment Act
The experimental Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was the cornerstone farm legislation of President Franklin ...
Agriculture
Agriculture has played a major role in Arkansas’s culture from territorial times, when farmers made up more ...
AIDS
By 2007, a cumulative 4,119 Arkansans had been diagnosed with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), the d...
Albert Pike Hotel
The Albert Pike Hotel in downtown Little Rock (Pulaski County) opened in 1929 and was one of the state’s bes...
Alco School
The Alco School, located on State Highway 66 at Alco (Stone County), is a one-story, fieldstone-clad building ...