US History – Arkansas Primary Source Sets

Onlookers stand on the steps of a building while 13 members of the 57th United States Colored Infantry, an African American unit in the Civil War, pose in uniform for the photographer. The three men on the left carry a bugle, large drum, and snare drum. Other men hold weapons. The tallest man in the center carries the American flag.

African Americans in the Civil War

Jon Kennedy depicts Congress looking angry while cooking at a grill as a "CIA Covert Op." approaches from Nicaragua with his very small fishing catch.

Latin America During the Cold War

Heriberto Cortes-Cortes and a group of Mexican cotton pickers working on a cotton field. They wear broad-brimmed hats and carry large cotton sacks.

Bracero Program

Black and white photograph of United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg standing on a stool reading a law book in front of a bookcase

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

War and the Limitations of Civil Liberties

Black and white photograph shows the overloaded steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River. Black smoke pours out of the left smokestack and the upper and lower decks are filled with Union soldiers in dark military uniforms. The steamboat is pointed to the right in the image, downriver, with the word SULTANA in large script in the middle of the steamboat. There is a smaller barge to the rear in the bottom left of the photograph.

Sinking of the Sultana

Arkansas Natural Disasters

Winter Holiday Celebrations

Book Backdrop for Step Right Up by Donna Janell Bowman

Women’s Suffrage