2023 - the Present

Modern Era
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Arkansans for Limited Government v. Thurston
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 precedent-shattering decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health O...
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Arkansas Special Agents
Arkansas Special Agents is a three-book series written by Maggie Wells (pen name for Margaret Ethridge) and pu...
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Arkansas Special Agents: Cyber Crime Division
Arkansas Special Agents: Cyber Crime Division is a three-book series by Little Rock (Pulaski County) novelist ...
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August Lane
August Lane is a 2025 romance novel written by Regina Black of Little Rock (Pulaski County) and published by G...
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The Barber of Little Rock
The Barber of Little Rock is a 2023 short documentary film that follows barber Arlo Washington, who founded a ...
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Becoming Free Indeed
Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear is a 2023 memoir by Jinger Duggar Vuolo, one o...
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Bed and Breakup
Bed and Breakup is a 2025 romance novel by Little Rock (Pulaski County) native Susie Dumond and the first of h...
C. D. Wright Women Writers Conference
The C. D. Wright Women Writers Conference was established in 2017 to focus on women writers, with a special em...
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Cicadas Sing of Summer Graves
Cicadas Sing of Summer Graves is a modern southern gothic novel with a heavy dose of magical realism. This deb...
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Come and Get It
Come and Get It, Kiley Reid’s second novel, delivers a penetrating study of American young adulthood. Reid w...
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Counting the Cost
Counting the Cost is a 2023 memoir written by Jill Duggar, with her husband, Derick Dillard, and Craig Borlase...
Ryan Crouser (1992–)
Track and field star Ryan Crouser is the only man to win a gold medal in shot put in three consecutive Olympic...
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Delta Civil Rights Legacy Trail
The Delta Civil Rights Legacy Trail is a website-centered project that shines a spotlight on the important rol...
Distinguished Flying Cross Memorial Highway
In April 2024, Arkansas became the first state to designate a section of highway as the Distinguished Flying C...
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Fall Through
Fall Through is a graphic novel by National Book Award–winning writer-artist Nate Powell, who grew up in Nor...
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The Forgotten Girls
The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America, written by Clinton (Van Buren C...
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God's Not Dead: In God We Trust
God’s Not Dead: In God We Trust, released in theaters in September 2024, is the fifth movie in the God’s N...
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Joan of Arkansas [Book]
Joan of Arkansas is a 2023 work mixing poetry, drama, and prose written by Milo Wippermann (working under the ...
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John M. Jumper (1985–)
On October 9, 2024, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that it was awarding the 2024 Nobel Prize ...
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LEARNS Act
aka: Act 237 of 2023
The LEARNS Act (Act 237 of 2023) was the signature piece of legisla...
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Life and Death of the American Worker
Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company is a 2...
Mystik Dan
On May 4, 2024, Arkansas-owned colt Mystik Dan won the 150th Kentucky Derby in what was the closest three-hors...
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Willie Nelson (1933–)
Willie Nelson is one of the most beloved figures in American music. An outlaw-country star since the 1970s, he...
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Raye Montague One Dollar Coin
The United States Mint issued a commemorative $1 coin in January 2025 honoring Little Rock (Pulaski County) na...
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Nick Shoulders (1989–)
aka: Nicklaus Robert Shoulders
Nick Shoulders is a country singer/songwriter, an illustrator, and ...
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Solar Eclipse of 2024
The solar eclipse of 2024 was one of three eclipses for which Arkansas lay within the “path of totality,” ...
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Strong Like You
Strong Like You is the debut young adult novel by Russellville (Pope County) journalist T. L. Simpson. Release...
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Tornado Outbreak of 2023
On March 31, 2023, a massive outbreak of tornadoes struck nine states across the country, from Arkansas and Io...
Tornado Outbreak of 2024
In the early morning hours of Sunday, May 26, 2024, during Memorial Day weekend, multiple tornadoes struck nor...
Tornado Outbreak of 2025
A violent storm system on March 14–15, 2025, spawned more than a dozen tornadoes in fourteen Arkansas counti...
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Two to Tango
Two to Tango is a 2023 romance novel written by Kathleen Fuller and published by Thomas Nelson, a division of ...
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U.S. Marshals Museum
The U.S. Marshals Service, the nation’s oldest law enforcement agency, was established in 1789 by President ...