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Rusted machinery on a concrete block and a historical sign in the middle of a field
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...
Portrait photograph of an older white man in suit tie glasses pocket square with short parted hair and a solemn expression
Aaron v. Cooper
aka: Cooper v. Aaron
Aaron v. Cooper, reversed by the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Ci...
Natural springs in forested area
Abernathy Spring
Abernathy Spring is a mineral spring located in Polk County, 2.8 km (1.75 mi.) east of the unincorporated comm...
Young white protesters with signs being interviewed by local news
Abortion
Abortion is defined as either a spontaneous early ending of a pregnancy (a.k.a. miscarriage) or an induced ear...
Chart indicating various life cycle changes of a worm
Acanthocephalans
aka: Spiny-Headed Worms
aka: Thorny-Headed Worms
These cylindrical metazoan worms, superficially similar to nematode...
Book cover featuring a prison guard tower
Accomplices to the Crime
Accomplices to the Crime is penologist Thomas O. Murton’s 1969 nonfiction account of his efforts to reform t...
Large blue metal building with "Acme Brick" logo and fence
Acme Brick Company
Acme Brick Company began operation in 1891 and is now the largest American-owned brick and masonry manufacture...
African-American boy watching white protesters marching in distance
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...
"Night Rider Bill Passed" newspaper clipping
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...
White man in suit and tie at lectern
Act 250 of 2021
aka: Stand-Your-Ground Law
On March 3, 2021, Governor Asa Hutchinson signed into law Act ...
"Lucey's article widely endorsed" newspaper clipping
Act 258 of 1909
aka: Toney Bill to Prevent Lynching
Act 258 of 1909 was a law intended to prevent citizens from engagin...
White woman in white-collared suit and glasses
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...
White man at microphone with finger raised
Act 401 of 1951
aka: Communist Registration Act
Also called the Communist Registration Act, Act 401 was approved in...
White man in suit and tie smiling with Arkansas flag behind him
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...
White man in suit and tie smiling with Arkansas flag behind him
Act 710 of 2017
aka: Anti-BDS Law
Act 710 of 2017 is a law intended “to prohibit public entitie...
White man in suit and striped tie writing at his desk
Act 76 of 1983
aka: Teacher Testing Law
Act 76 of 1983 was a law passed by the Arkansas General Assembly ma...
White man in suit and tie smiling with Arkansas flag behind him
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...
White man in suit and tie smiling with Arkansas flag behind him
Act 975 of 2015
aka: Religious Freedom Restoration Act
The Arkansas Religious Freedom Restoration Act (SB975 of the 2015 r...
green cover showing boy in hat standing in front of picket fence
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 girl in dress with head bowed and hands clasped in prayer on magazine cover with text
African American Perspectives Northeast Arkansas
The quarterly African American Perspectives Northeast Arkansas magazine was established in Jonesboro (Craighea...
White man with handlebar mustache and beard in suit and blue bow tie
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...
Farmer and boy using a horse drawn plow in a field with hills in the background
Agricultural Adjustment Act
The experimental Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was the cornerstone farm legislation of President Franklin ...
Chickens in cages from egg to adult with advertisements for an electric hatchery device
Agriculture
Agriculture has played a major role in Arkansas’s culture from territorial times, when farmers made up more ...
"Northeast Arkansas Regional AIDS Network" flyer with contact information
AIDS
By 2007, a cumulative 4,119 Arkansans had been diagnosed with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), the d...
Multistory hotel building with cupola and red sign with white lettering hanging on corner facing street
Albert Pike Hotel
The Albert Pike Hotel in downtown Little Rock (Pulaski County) opened in 1929 and was one of the state’s bes...
Man with cowboy hat standing outside stone building with bench and trees in the foreground
Alco School
The Alco School, located on State Highway 66 at Alco (Stone County), is a one-story, fieldstone-clad building ...