Important Arkansas historical events and significant anniversaries for June 6, and notable births and deaths of native ...

Representatives from Arkansas ... of the civil, military and naval life of those who molded this government between the close of the American Revolution and the close of the War of 1812.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) — The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program dedicated a new historical marker Saturday to commemorate Black soldiers who fought in the U.S. Civil War. The new marker is ...

Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton is facing a backlash over comments he made about the Civil War following Nikki Haley's controversy over the same issue. Haley, a Republican primary candidate ...

In one of the most contentious ages in Arkansas History, Daisy Bates was a voice for peace and justice during the civil rights struggles. Her work helped show that the past does not have to define ...

A drought in Missouri’s Ozark region has exposed caverns not seen in decades, part of an ancient cave system that played a key role in the Civil War. Kevin Bright, owner of the Smallin Civil War ...

On April 12, Lincoln ordered a fleet to resupply Fort Sumter, and the first shots of the Civil War were fired. North Carolina, Virginia, Arkansas and Tennessee then joined the Confederacy ...

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 ...

A secret hides behind the swollen walls of a peculiar farmhouse in southeast Arkansas, and a climb into the attic is a trip through time to a trapped moment just after the Civil War. Rows of ...

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 ...

War Emblem , the winner of the 2002 Kentucky Derby (G1) and Preakness Stakes (G1), has died at age 21, Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Center announced March 11. War Emblem, who had been ...

The governor of Arkansas, Asa Hutchinson, made the plan official by signing a bill last week. Both Rose and Clarke were political figures during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Though he ...