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“The war was a vital part of Arkansas and United States history,” said Mark Christ, community outreach director of the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial ... carries the emblem of the commission.
Author Mark Christ talked about his book Civil War Arkansas 1863: The Battle for a State. C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their… read more Author Mark Christ talked about ...
For more than two decades, Arkansas mostly abandoned teaching the Civil War to its children, leaving it to self-education. While the state’s legislature has made moves over the last few years to ...
After the Civil War, Arkansas veterans returned home and attempted to revert to civilian life. During the immediate postwar decades, veterans and their families began to establish veterans ...
(KTAL/KMSS)—Spend an early November day in Southwest Arkansas and enjoy a series of ... about civilian and military issues during the Civil War. If you know a school or students who wish to ...
The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program dedicated a new historical marker Saturday to commemorate Black soldiers who ...
One of the last public duels in Arkansas took place 159 years ago today on the eastern fringe of what is now North Little Rock. The unlikely duelists were two Confederate brigadier generals, John ...