Encyclopedia of Arkansas Minute
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The Encyclopedia of Arkansas Minute features the history of Arkansas as told through the entries of the Encyclopedia of Arkansas. The Encyclopedia of Arkansas is a program of the Central Arkansas Library System Butler Center for Arkansas Studies.
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A former Boy Scout camp near Hardy now offers its facilities for free to youth groups.
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A planned community created in Carroll County in the 1970s became one of Arkansas’s newest official cities in 2021.
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A long-time Jonesboro teacher would become a national advocate for early childhood education.
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A Southern Arkansas University coach helped bring women’s sports into a new world of intercollegiate athletics after Title IX was passed.
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Ruled by the Whip, an obscure 1958 book, offers a detailed, brutal and accurate account of prison life in mid-twentieth century Arkansas.
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Conscientious objectors occupied a camp near Magnolia during World War II.
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Approved by President Chester A. Arthur, an Army-Navy Hospital was opened at Hot Springs in 1887 to give U.S. military patients access to the healing waters.
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A New York transplant became well known for her paintings of Arkansas wildflowers.
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William Harold Flowers was a major leader of the civil rights struggle in Arkansas in the 1940s.