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Center for Arkansas History and Culture

Located in downtown Little Rock, the UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture is located in the Central Arkansas Library System's Bobby L. Roberts Library of Arkansas History and Art building, the state’s largest facility dedicated to the study of Arkansas history and culture. Through its connection to the university, the archives benefit from the rigorous scholarship of our faculty, creating a valuable resource for students, researchers, stakeholders, and the general public.

Mission

The UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture collects, keeps safe, and makes available Arkansas history that connects people to each other and their experiences.

Project Contributors

The Arcade Exhibit was made possible with the help of many people:

Deborah Baldwin
Associate Provost, Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences 
University of Arkansas at Little Rock 

Thomas Clifton
Professor of Art

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Chad Garret
Director of Digital Projects and Initiatives
Center for Arkansas History and Culture

Kimberly Kaczenski
Assistant Director
Center for Arkansas History and Culture

Charles Witsell
Partner
Witsell, Evans, and Rasco, Architects/Planners

Shannon Lausch
Archivist

Kristin Mann
Professor of History & Social Studies Education Coordinator
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Stephan McAteer
Executive Director
MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History

Nicholas Sosnoski
Student Assistant
Center for Arkansas History and Culture

Acknowledgements 

Special thanks to the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Central Arkansas Library System, Moses Tucker Real Estate, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Department of Art and the George W. Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology.

This project is supported in part by a grant from the Arkansas Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities.