(1850-1877) Civil War and Reconstruction – 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

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

Arkansas Geography & Economics

John Ross and the Complicated Tale of the Cherokee Nation during the Civil War

Tenant Farming and Sharecropping in the Post-Civil War South

Mifflin Gibbs