Victor F. Snyder: The Courage and Commitment for CongressCAHC Exhibit Victor “Vic” Frederick Snyder is a Vietnam veteran, family physician, and lawyer who served as an Arkansas state senator from 1991 to 1996 and as a U.S. Representative for Arkansas’…
Arkansas Constitutional Convention, 1979-1980: Citizen Participation in the Political Process
Arkansas Constitutional Convention, 1979-1980CAHC Exhibit From 1979 to 1980, Arkansas held its eighth convention to revise the state constitution. The proposed constitution addressed controversial issues such as changes to usury limits, property taxes, and redistricting. Due to numerous challenges, the…
History Alive: Virtually!
History Alive: Virtually!Lesson Plans Grades K-12Explore curated sets of digitized primary sources from CAHC. The sources are organized in ten thematic virtual mini-collections: Agriculture, Arkansas and the World, Arkansas before Statehood, Change over Time, Civil Rights, Civil War and Reconstruction,…
Zero Hour: Arkansas in 1980
Zero Hour: Arkansas in 1980Student Exhibit The year 1980 was a pivotal moment in both American and Arkansas history. Arkansans faced a Titan II missile explosion, clashed over the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution, and considered a…
Jim Guy Tucker Papers Project Blog
Jim Guy Tucker Papers Project BlogProject Blog This blog follows the processing of the James Guy Tucker, Jr., Papers at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Center for Arkansas History and Culture. Part of the project included the creation…
Jim Guy Tucker Papers
Jim Guy Tucker PapersCAHC Exhibit Jim Guy Tucker served as Prosecuting Attorney, Attorney General, U.S. Representative for Arkansas’ Second District, Lieutenant Governor, and Governor of Arkansas. His political legacy spanned from 1970-1996. Published March 2017 / Redesigned 2022.
No Laughing Matter: Political Cartoons and the Arkansas Historical Perspective
No Laughing Matter: Political Cartoons and the Arkansas Historical PerspectiveCAHC Exhibit This exhibit examines the interaction of politics and history in Arkansas through a selection of original works by Arkansas political cartoonists Jon Kennedy (Arkansas Democrat, 1941-1988) and Bill Graham…
Winthrop Rockefeller Collection
Winthrop Rockefeller CollectionCAHC Exhibit Winthrop Rockefeller was a World War II veteran, politician, and philanthropist. From 1967-1971, he served as Arkansas’ first Republican governor since Reconstruction. Published February 2016 / Redesigned 2023.
Calvin R. Ledbetter, Jr. Papers
Calvin R. Ledbetter, Jr. PapersCAHC Exhibit Cal Ledbetter worked as a political science faculty member at Little Rock University from 1960-1997, and he served as an Arkansas state representative from 1967-1977. He attended the state Constitutional Conventions of 1968-1970 and…
Dale Bumpers Gubernatorial Papers
Dale Bumpers Gubernatorial PapersCAHC Exhibit Dale Bumpers was a lawyer who served as the 38th Governor of Arkansas from 1971-1975 and as a U.S. Senator from 1975 to 1999. Published October 2011 / Redesigned 2023.
Victor F. Snyder Lesson Plans
Victor F. Snyder Lesson PlansLesson Plans Grades 7-12Download lesson plans related to Victor F. Snyder. Topics include: What Does a congressperson Do?, LGBTQ+ History and Politics, and Central High Desegregation Commemoration. Published September 2022.
Arkansas Constitutional Convention Lesson Plans
Arkansas Constitutional Convention Lesson PlansLesson Plans Grades K-12Download lesson plans related to the Arkansas Constitutional Convention of 1979-1980. Topics include: Who Were the Delegates?, Preambles Through the Years, Let’s Make Some Changes, Let’s Raise Taxes or Not, and The Ghost…
Jim Guy Tucker Lesson Plans
Jim Guy Tucker Lesson PlansLesson Plans Grades 9-12Download lesson plans related to events during Jim Guy Tucker’s political career. Topics include: the Lost Year, Prison Reform, Whitewater, and the Vietnam War (Second Indochina War). Published March 2017.
No Laughing Matter Lesson Plans
No Laughing Matter Lesson PlansLesson Plans Grades 7-12Download lesson plans, classroom activities, and drawing sheets related to analyzing political cartoons. Topics include: Political Cartoons about Arkansas and Political Cartoons about World Events. Published November 2016.
Winthrop Rockefeller Education Resources
Winthrop Rockefeller Education ResourcesLesson Plans Download an annotated bibliography of primary and secondary sources related to Winthrop Rockefeller. Published February 2016.