Benjamin Frank Adair, born a slave in Phillips County, established a legal practice in central Arkansas in the...

Simon Adler, born in Bavaria in 1832 (according to his tombstone), was one of the first Jewish immigrants to s...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), best known by his pen na...

In Arkansas, between 1868 and 1893, at least eighty-seven African American men were elected to and served in t...

The Agricultural Wheel was a state farmers’ union, founded in the Arkansas Delta, which expanded into ten ot...

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

The Albert Pike Memorial Temple is located at 700–724 Scott Street in Little Rock (Pulaski County). On Nove...

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

Henry Allen was lynched in Jacksonport (Jackson County) on September 10, 1881, three days after he stabbed a m...

Frederick William Allsopp was a newspaperman, book collector, and bookstore owner who was an important player ...

On October 15 or 16, 1883, an African-American man named Wyatt Ames was shot to death near Lexington (some rep...

Clint Anderson was an African American man hanged in Little Rock (Pulaski County) on August 30, 1878, for the ...

Frederick Tanqueray Anderson was an early twentieth-century Arkansas watercolorist. Categorized as a romantic ...

Marshall Anderson was a Black man hanged at Malvern (Hot Spring County) on April 24, 1896, for killing his bro...

James Arcene, a Cherokee man, was sentenced to death for a crime he committed years before. While aspects of h...

Three African American men—Dan Jones, Anderson Mitchell, and Willis Green—were hanged on March 15, 1889, i...

Arkansas Christian College (ACC) was a short-lived junior college established in 1889 in Pinnacle Springs (Fau...

The Arkansas Confederate Home was opened late in 1890 in a small remodeled residence on some sixty acres near ...

Arkansas Female College operated in Little Rock (Pulaski County) from 1874 to 1897, first in what is now the P...

Arkansas Kit; or, The River Sprite’s Choice: A Tale of the Crowfoot Country by W. J. Hamilton, is a “dime ...

Arkansas Normal College, located in Jamestown (Independence County), was founded in 1895 as a two-year coeduca...

The Arkansas State Medical Association (ASMA), organized in 1870, was Arkansas’s first statewide professiona...

In 1882, writer Opie Percival Read and his brother-in-law, Philo Dayton Benham, started the Arkansaw Traveler ...

J. M. Armstrong, convicted in a doctor’s killing that he claimed was in self-defense, was hanged at Perryvil...

William Arterberry, an accused arsonist, was shot to death by a mob at Harrison (Boone County) on October 22, ...

What most newspapers described as the “Atkins Race War” occurred in Lee Township of Pope County in late Ma...

On December 6, 1877, an African-American man named Wash Atkinson was hanged by a mob in Arkadelphia (Clark Cou...

Joseph Bachman is widely recognized as Arkansas’s leading developer of grape varieties. During his career, h...