With thanks to the Arkansas Women’s History Institute for the award! ualr.edu/news/2025/06...

This week I am taking Arkansas history on the road from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock to Turun yliopisto - University of Turku in Finland for the 2025 Nordic Association of American Studies conference 🇺🇸🇫🇮 #NAASpriations #NAASpirations2025

“I think that if anyone who never lived through what we [the Little Rock Nine] lived through and need to understand what it was like, they can look at January 6,” said [Carlotta] Walls Lanier, 82. “I see the two being equal, 23 September 1957 and 6 January 2021.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Happy Daisy Gatson Bates Day!

Go see the exhibit and listen to my talk on February 19.

Happy MLK Day!

Get your free ticket to my talk “A Transformative Gift: The Rockefeller Legacy and the Arts in Arkansas,” February 19, 10:30-11:30 am, at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, by clicking the link below. events.arkmfa.org/event/the-ro...

Come, see and hear. events.arkmfa.org/event/the-ro...

Pick up a multi-award-winning book if you are out Christmas shopping this weekend.

Author/editor of ten books. Check them out here: www.amazon.com/author/jakirk