Arkansas History
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A red ocher pictograph on Petit Jean Mountain in west central Arkansas appears to depict a Spanish ship of the European contact era. Due to the absence of records documenting a Spanish seagoing vessel in the area and the high probability... more
The Dixie Frontier is the land west of the Appalachian Mountains , south of the Ohio River, and including both banks of the Mississippi River. It was settled by migrants from eastern Tennessee and Kentucky, people coming down the Ohio... more
This project is a landscape study that examines how different members of the antebellum and postbellum community in Arkansas and Louisiana perceived and used the swamplands, and how this changed over time. This project suggests that the... more
Henry Jacobi was an emigrant from Zurich Switzerland, who, like many ethnic Germans living in Little Rock, Arkansas, was quietly pro-Union. Before the Civil War, he had become acquainted with "Charlotte," an enslaved woman who was... more
About 13,000 years of Native American Prehistory in Northeast Arkansas presented to the White County Historical Society in 2022.
This paper tells the story of Philipp Dietzgen (1838-1920), a German immigrant who in 1880 bought the Arkansas Staats-Zeitung, a German-language newspaper published in Little Rock. He was its owner, editor, and publisher until he sold it... more
Arkansas did not have a German-language newspaper in 1877 when thirty-two-year-old Wilhelm (William) Fischer moved from St. Louis to Little Rock, Arkansas, to start one. He was joined in the enterprise by his sixteen-year-old brother... more
In November 1870, Frederick Kramer of the first ward and Asa Richmond of the third ward ran for re-election to the Little Rock city council. Both were supported by the regular Republicans (the "minstrels") a faction headed by Governor... more
This paper tells the story of Frederick Kramer, the Republican Party's nominee for Little Rock mayor in November 1873, who was elected and held office for seventeen months. Kramer, a German immigrant, took office a few months after the... more
Little Rock's first Turnverein (Turner Society) was created in October 1867 when a few ethnic German immigrants decided their numbers had grown large enough to support this popular gymnastics-cum-intellectual development organization.... more
The five extended families and one individual who emigrated from Asch in German Bohemia to Little Rock, Arkansas, in the 1850s, prospered after the end of the Civil War. The most successful became grocers and later in life, bankers. In... more
By the time the Civil War started in 1861, the emigrants from Asch had settled into their new homeland and had good reason to be optimistic about their futures in Little Rock and Pulaski County, Arkansas. The outbreak of the war... more
This text explores the characteristics of the paintings that make up my thesis show, In the Pines, in which each image bristles with narrative aspects and hints of everyday magic. In this document, I discuss my obsession with storytelling... more
From 1848 to 1861, at least twenty-eight German speakers living in Asch, Bohemia, emigrated to Little Rock, Arkansas, and three more arrived after the Civil War. Most of these Asch immigrants came from three large, well-educated families,... more
A struggle for control of the Little Rock city council resulted in the eight-member body reaching an impasse when trying to elect the president of the council, a position that had taken on importance after the suspension of the city's... more
Do natural disasters help or hurt politicians’ electoral fortunes? Research on this question has produced conflicting results. Achen and Bartels (2002, 2016) find that voters punish incumbent politicians indiscriminately after such... more
The Civilian Conservation Corps, a Depression-era federal program founded in 1933 as part of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, provides a unique example of a successful partnership-based government program. The CCC provided a win-win... more
In March 1864, Union forces began their fifth attempt to invade Texas in less than fifteen months. The commander of the Union Department of the Gulf, based in New Orleans, was Major General Nathaniel Prentiss Banks. With aspirations for... more
New drama in the western theatre Unit fought in Vicksburg, Red River, and Camden campaigns Thomas Reid\u27s Spartan Band: Burnett\u27s 13th Texas Cavalry in the Civil War is a splendidly crafted account of an East Texas cavalry regiment... more
- by Gary Joiner
Confederate army had long odds Could Hood\u27s gamble have paid off? Nashville: The Western Confederacy\u27s Final Gamble serves as the capstone of James Lee McDonough\u27s chronicles dealing with Tennessee\u27s major Civil War battles.... more
- by Derek Frisby
This study indicates that profit rates in western river steamboating were typical of the returns earned in other antebellum business activities, and that returns were much higher on tributary than on trunk steamboating routes.
The Logistics & Economics of Nourishment on
Soldiers, Civilians, and Equines
During the
American Civil War
Soldiers, Civilians, and Equines
During the
American Civil War
The Arkansas River molded the history of Arkansas. It also shaped human to human interactions and human relationships with the physical environment. Since humans first encountered the river their lives have been influenced by it. The... more
This study examines the organic emergence and evolution of discernible patterns in the tactical behavior of Major General William T. Sherman's Fifteenth Army Corps of the Army of the Tennessee across its first year operating within... more
In 1268 cardinals descended upon the medieval village of Viterbo to choose a successor for Pope Clement IV. For two years and eight months the cardinals stayed in the palace while the village had to feed and care for them. The end of the... more