Center for Arkansas History and Culture
Located in downtown Little Rock, the UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas and 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 shared experiences.
About the Project
"No Laughing Matter: Political Cartoons and the Arkansas Historical Perspective" began as a product of an unrelated project when the UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC) proposed a workshop for teachers, librarians, and archivists around the state. The workshop, Teaching a Web of Arkansas History, funded by the Arkansas Community Foundation's Bridge Fund Grant Program, brought together professionals from around the state to learn about digitizing photographs, writing about the photographs, and creating online exhibits to highlight archival material. For the workshops, Center staff thought political cartoons would be interesting source materials for the participants to work with and contemplate exhibiting. From that, the virtual exhibit was born and the idea for this symposium soon followed.
Credits
AJ Carter
UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture
Bradley Minnick
UA Little Rock Department of English
Barclay Key
UA Little Rock Department of History
Bridget Wood
UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture
Chad Garret
UA Little Rock Collections and Archives
Dusty Higgins
UA Little Rock Office of Communications
George Jensen
UA Little Rock Department of Rhetoric and Writing
Joeseph Giammo
UA Little Rock Department of Political Science
John Deering
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Joshua Couch
UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture
Kimberly Kaczenski
UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture
Revis Edmonds
Department of Arkansas Heritage
Shannon Lausch
UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas of History and Culture
Stan James
eStem Public Charter School
Special Thanks
The following is a list of participants who attended the Teaching a Web workshops and scanned images used in the "No Laughing Matter" Project:
Bev Cortiana
Tontitown Historical Museum
Cassandra Barnett
Arkansas Department of Education
Claudine James
Malvern School District
Malvern Middle School
Crystal Long
Central Baptist College
Story Library
Ethel Tompkins
Lawrence County Historical Society
George Coleman
Little Rock School District
Pulaski Heights Middle School
Jama Best
Arkansas Humanities Council
Jen Hughes
Arkansas Secretary of State's Office
Kathryn Fitzhugh
UA Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law Library
Kaye Lundgren
UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture
Kennedy Morphis
Newton County Library
Kenya Windel
Deer/Mt. Judea School District
Deer High School
LeTisha Stacey
Philander Smith College
D.W. Reynolds Library and Technology Center
Linda Goza
Plantation Agriculture Museum
Wendy Peer
Fort Smith School District
Northside High School
Liz Miller
Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts
Mary Heady
University of Arkansas at Monticello
Taylor Library
Mary Ellen Kubit
UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture
Nathan Windel
Deer/Mt. Judea School District
Deer High School
Pam Meredith
Williams Baptist College
Felix Goodson Library
Peggy Shroud
Heber Springs School District
Heber Springs High School
Rachel Whittingham
Central Baptist College
Story Library
Randy Noah
Plantation Agriculture Museum
Regina Beard
Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts
Revis Edmonds
Arkansas Historic Preservation Program
Robbie Gill
Central Arkansas Library System
Main Branch
Ruthie Pride
Phillips County Community College
Lewis Library
Tracy Cline
Van Buren School District
Butterfield Trail Middle School
This project is supported in part by a grant from the Arkansas Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
