Month: August 2023

Moments in history sometimes stand out because of the audaciousness of the action. Looking beyond the moment to examine the root reveals fascinating facts, placing that moment in a new context.

Women’s Equality Day is observed in the United States each year on August 26 to recognize the day in 1920 that the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was officially certified and became law,

Elizabeth Findley Shores, an independent historian living in Little Rock, received this year’s Booker Worthen Literary Prize, presented by the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies on behalf of the Central Arkansas Library System,

Ron Robinson was a Little Rock businessman, a friend of the Central Arkansas Library System, and a collector of many things related to the state of Arkansas. A previous post described his assortment of postal curiosities related to Arkansas,

In his 1998 book The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness down to Size, Danish science writer Tor Nørretranders introduces the concept of a “tree of talking.” The idea is that if I want to communicate something to you,