Though nowhere near as murderous as other race riots across the state, the Harrison Race Riots of 1905 and 1909 drove all but one African American from ...

The Moaner’s Bench is a 1998 semi-autobiographical novel by Pine Bluff (Jefferson County) native Mars Hill. The book is narrated by Mark Andrew “Sun” ...

The Grand Promenade in downtown Hot Springs (Garland County) is about a half mile long, connecting the city’s Reserve Street to Fountain Street. The ...

Promises Kept: A Memoir is the autobiography of Governor Sidney Sanders McMath (1912–2003), one of the most significant public figures in Arkansas ...

The White River Raft: The Largely True Story of a Logging Trip into the Flooded Forests of Arkansas, Followed by an Eventful Voyage Down the Mississippi ...

Magic Springs Theme and Water Park, located at 1701 East Grand Avenue off Highway 70 in the northeastern portion of Hot Springs (Garland County) about ...

Morning Is a Long Time Coming is a 1978 novel by Bette Greene, a sequel to her award-winning Summer of My German Soldier (1973). The story follows Patty ...

Following the success of the film The Paper Chase in 1973, writer and director James Bridges, who was born in Paris (Logan County), turned his attention ...

The fourth Grant County Courthouse was dedicated in July 1964 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 18, 2026. Grant County, which ...

The Elaine Massacre was by far the deadliest racial confrontation in Arkansas history and possibly the bloodiest racial conflict in the history of the ...

Located at 300 Quapaw Avenue in downtown Hot Springs (Garland County), the historic Congregation House of Israel celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2026. ...

In 1960, Bernell “Fatman” Austin (born on February 26, 1921) leased a parcel of land east of Atkins (Pope County) from Griffin Oil Co. for ten dollars a ...

The Lafayette Hotel in downtown Little Rock (Pulaski County) opened in 1925 and was one of the state’s best-known hotels until its closure in 1973. Now ...

Johnny Franklin Sain was a star major league pitcher and is widely considered to have been the best pitching coach in major league baseball history. Sain ...

Telephone service came to Prairie Grove (Washington County) in 1888 when local physician Ephraim Graham McCormick strung a telephone wire across the ...

A selection from a home movie showing the Little Rock Nine being escorted through the front entrance of Central High by military personnel; September 25, ...

Scottie Pippen is one of the most talented and successful athletes from the state of Arkansas. An essential member of the championship Chicago Bulls ...

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a fatal and highly contagious disease that affects white-tailed deer, mule deer, elk, moose, and other members of the ...

Pursuit is a 2022 action-thriller directed by Brian Skiba and filmed and partly set in Arkansas. The story centers upon a hacker searching for his ...

Located at 374 Whittington Avenue in Hot Springs (Garland County), Tiny Town is a family-run attraction featuring a handmade miniature village and an ...

Harding University, a private Christian university associated with the Churches of Christ, is located in Searcy (White County), occupying some 200 acres ...

Kathryne Bess Hail Travis with her painting Autumn Leaves; circa 1968. ...

Autumn in the Ozarks, painting by Ernest Fredericks (real name Fred Swedlun). ...

Autumn Trees, an example of Edward Everett Burr's mid-century Regionalist style. ...

Ernest Gideon Green made history as the only senior of the Little Rock Nine, the nine African American students who, in 1957, desegregated Central High ...

Bean's Hobbit Hole, located inside Bean's Books in Pickles Gap Village (Faulkner County); 2026. ...

Mary Lambert is a motion picture director who has been at the helm of landmark music videos, television programs, and feature films—the latter mainly in ...

Harry S. Ashmore, once the nationally famous executive editor of the Arkansas Gazette, wrote a 195-page history of Arkansas in the 1970s—one of fifty ...

John Gould Fletcher, Arkansas’s most celebrated writer at the time of his death in 1950, wrote an impressionistic and almost poetic history of Arkansas ...

The Kennedy Center's willows were removed in 2025, with its executive director testifying that most were felled due to decay.

Stone Fish is a 2005 mystery novel written by Olivia Ferrell and published by Avalon Books of New York. The story centers upon a New York photojournalist ...

The Girl is a 1986 young adult novel by Robbie Branscum centered on a female child, referred to only as “the girl,” and her four siblings who, abandoned ...

Come Morning is a 2012 independent feature film written, directed, photographed, and edited by Arkansas filmmaker Derrick Sims. The eighty-nine-minute ...

The 2021 film Ghosts of the Ozarks is an independent supernatural thriller directed by Matt Glass and Jordan Wayne Long. Combining elements of horror, ...

Architect Edward Durell Stone (left) and Arkansas senator J. William Fulbright outside the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC, a ...

Matthew McClintock (M. M.) Duffie served as president of the Arkansas Senate and was U.S. Consul General to Winnipeg in Western Canada. He served as an ...

Covered Buttons (Mercer University Press, 2026) is the debut novel by Arkansas writer Stephanie Saunders. Set in rural northern Arkansas in the 1930s, ...

State constitutions serve as the foundation for statutory laws, rules and regulations, and government for a state. These documents also serve as historic ...

Arkansas has seen its fair share of grisly murders, mysterious...

Released in 1980, Brubaker is loosely based on the 1969 nonfiction book Accomplices to the Crime: The Arkansas Prison Scandal by Joe Hyams and Thomas O. ...

Legendary blues guitarist B. B. King had a monumental career heavily influenced by his experiences in Arkansas. Born into poverty in Mississippi, he ...

Marlin Conover Hawkins served Conway County as an elected official for thirty-eight years. His ability to deliver votes to statewide and national ...

In 1964, Ozell Sutton, an African American man, sought to exercise his right to eat at the Arkansas State Capitol cafeteria. Initially turned away, he ...

"We have remarked that one reason offered for being a progressive is that things naturally tend to grow better. But the only real reason for being a ...

The movie House of Darkness is a psychological thriller written and directed by Neil LaBute, who also directed In the Company of Men, The Shape of Things, ...

Director Amman Abbasi’s debut film and brutally honest coming-of-age story Dayveon (2017) follows the path of a teen boy’s summer in rural Arkansas as he ...

American Cherry is an independent film written and directed by Marcella Cytrynowicz that follows the story of teenage delinquent Finn Elliott, whose young ...

Women have played major and defining roles in the development ...

Williams Baptist University is a comprehensive liberal arts institution owned and operated by the Arkansas Baptist State Convention. Founded in Pocahontas ...