1901 - 1940

Early Twentieth Century
312th Field Signal Battalion’s Pigeon Department
During World War I (1914–1918), homing pigeons emerged as a viable way for militaries to maintain contact wh...
Eugene Hardeman Abington (1873–1965)
Eugene Hardeman (E. H.) Abington, a physician, practiced medicine and pharmacy in Arkansas and Oklahoma for mo...
William Henry Abington (1870–1951)
William Henry (W. H.) Abington, a physician and a Democratic politician, served as a state senator and a state...
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 258 of 1909
aka: Toney Bill to Prevent Lynching
Act 258 of 1909 was a law intended to prevent citizens from engagin...
Grace Evelyn Reese Adkins (1884–1973)
Grace Evelyn Reese Adkins devoted most of her considerable energy and talents as a teacher, writer, composer, ...
Cyrus Adler (1863–1940)
Cyrus Adler was a scholar, editor, and Jewish leader with a lifetime commitment to the study of Jewish history...
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 ...
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 ...
Alderson-Coston House
The Alderson-Coston House is a one-and-a-half-story Craftsman-style home located on Pine Bluff Street in Malve...
All Souls Church
All Souls Church at 4601 Walkers Corner Road in Scott (Pulaski and Lonoke counties) is a Gothic Revival–styl...
Allen Tire Company and Gas Station
The Allen Tire Company and Gas Station was a Craftsman-style, purpose-built gas station located in Prescott (N...
Louis Allwhite (Lynching of)
Louis Allwhite, a white man, was lynched just outside of Newport (Jackson County) on December 31, 1904, for ha...
John Parks Almand (1885–1969)
John Parks Almand worked as an architect in Arkansas for fifty years, beginning in 1912. A number of his commi...
Benjamin Joseph Altheimer Sr. (1878–1946)
Benjamin Joseph Altheimer Sr. was a lawyer and philanthropist who was known as a “real trailblazer” in pro...
Joshua Altheimer (1911–1940)
Joshua Altheimer was one of the Delta’s most prolific blues pianists. Altheimer mastered the emerging boogi...
Amendments 19 and 20
aka: Futrell Amendments
Amendments 19 and 20 to the Arkansas Constitution, which are common...
American Krusaders
The American Krusaders was an organization founded in 1923 that claimed Little Rock (Pulaski County) as its ...
American Legion Hut (Des Arc)
aka: Burson-Bethel Post 119 American Legion Hut
The American Legion Hut in Des Arc (Prairie County), located at 206...
American Legion Post 127 Building
aka: Wilson Burnett Post 127 American Legion Hut
The American Legion Post 127 Building, located on the northeast cor...
Freda Hogan Ameringer (1892–1988)
Freda Hogan Ameringer was a journalist, Socialist Party official, and labor activist in Sebastian County; she...
Ancient Order of United Workmen
In the quickly industrializing world of the late nineteenth century, so-called “friendly societies” or fra...
"Broncho Billy" Anderson (1880–1971)
aka: Gilbert Maxwell Aronson
“Broncho Billy” Anderson was the stage name of Gilbert Maxwell ...
Charles Anderson (Execution of)
Charles Anderson, a twenty-one-year-old Black man, was hanged at Little Rock (Pulaski County) on July 26, 1901...
Daisy Anderson (1900?-1998)
Educator, author, and lecturer Daisy Graham Anderson is best known for being one of the last surviving widows ...
Pernella Anderson (1903–1980)
Pernella Mae Center Anderson of El Dorado (Union County) was one of Arkansas’s two African-American intervie...
William Anderson (Lynching of)
On July 8, 1906, an African American named William Anderson was hanged from a telephone pole just south of Til...
Angus McLeod House
The Angus McLeod House, once located at 912 North 13th Street in Fort Smith (Sebastian County), was built in 1...
Katharine Susan Anthony (1877–1965)
Katharine Susan Anthony was suffragist, feminist, pacifist, socialist, and author of feminist and psychologica...
Anti-Catholicism
Organized prejudice against Roman Catholics was a recurring theme in American history from colonial days throu...