The Alexander George House was a historic home located in Little Rock (Pulaski County). Constructed between 18...

An Arkansas territorial legislator was mortally wounded on March 10, 1820, in the first recorded duel fought i...

A mob of white residents of Benton County lynched Alph, an enslaved African-American man, on August 20, 1849. ...

From 1830 until 1875, a premier hotel stood on the southwest corner of Markham and Scott streets in Little Roc...

Joseph J. Anthony, a soldier, politician, and Arkansas pioneer, fell victim to one of the most extraordinary a...

The only recorded violent death on the floor of the Arkansas General Assembly occurred on December 4, 1837, in...

One of Arkansas’s first attempts to preserve its history was organized by a group of “gentlemen naturalist...

The “Appeal of the Arkansas Exiles to Christians throughout the World” was a plea for assistance written b...

In 1843, Democrats in Little Rock (Pulaski County) sought a new newspaper, as the Arkansas State Gazette (1836...

Arkansas College was founded in Fayetteville (Washington County) in late 1850 by pastor Robert Graham of the D...

The Arkansas Intelligencer, published in Van Buren (Crawford County), was an important antebellum newspaper in...

Under the common law that prevailed in all American jurisdictions except Louisiana, once a woman married, all ...

The Arkansas Military Institute was one of the earliest schools of its kind in the state. Established in Tulip...

The Arkansas Mounted Rifles was a regiment of volunteers from the state who participated in the Mexican War as...

Arkansas Post was the first and most significant European establishment in Arkansas. In the colonial and early...

In 1836, the establishment of the Real Estate Bank of Arkansas became the initial act to pass the first state ...

The Arkansas State Bank (1836–1843) was one of two banks created by the newly formed Arkansas state legislat...

On December 23, 1840, Arkansas’s governor Archibald Yell signed into law a statute with the cumbersome title...

The Arkansas Synodical College, chartered shortly before the Civil War, was one of several abortive attempts b...

The Arkansas Traveler was a steamboat that sank after hitting a snag in the Arkansas River below Pine Bluff (J...

The True Democrat (1852–1857) was first printed on September 7, 1852, in Little Rock (Pulaski County) by own...

At least twenty nineteenth-century steamboats were called Arkansas or a derivative of the state’s name, acco...

The colorful and often controversial Alfred W. Arrington was an attorney, minister, and Arkansas state legisla...

Prior to the Civil War, most lynchings in Arkansas and across the nation (particularly on the frontier) took ...

Chester Ashley was prominent in territorial and antebellum Arkansas. He was involved in the dispute over owner...

John James Audubon, a frontier naturalist and artist, is famous for illustrating and writing The Birds of Amer...

Slaves in the United States had no legal rights and only limited access to legal protection, so few legal case...

Stephen Fuller Austin, most widely known as the “Father of Texas,” spent a short period of his life in Ark...

George W. Baines was a prominent nineteenth-century Southern Baptist minister, teacher, Arkansas politician, a...

Jacob Barkman is known as the father of Clark County. An early settler along the Caddo River, Barkman eventual...