Photography by David Ankeny 

On view through Saturday, April 30 

CALS Galleries & Bookstore at Library Square, Loft Gallery   

David Ankeny started taking photographs long ago and far away. He caught the photography bug from his father, and later his wife nurtured the habit.

Guest post by Bernadette Cahill:

The campaign to win women the right to vote under the U.S. Constitution, beginning in 1848, was the longest such civil rights struggle in American history. The campaign culminated with the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920—seventy-two years after it began.

Arkansas women played a role in this enormous struggle for women’s suffrage,

Guest post by Bernadette Cahill:

“They went and told the sexton, and
The sexton toll’d the bell.”
–Final couplet from “Faithless Sally Brown,” by Thomas Hood (1799–1845)

These words echoed in my mind in 2021 when my husband Ron and I arrived at Oakland &

Language changes. This fact is rather frustrating for us editors.

And the irony is that, while online resources can most capably respond to changes in usage, they can also appear the most behind the curve. When many of the nation’s newspapers, for example, decided to capitalize the word “Black” in reference to African Americans,

Guest post by Ron Fuller:

As a lover of history, member of the Arkansas History Commission, and occasional writer of historical articles, I have come to rely on the CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies at the Roberts Library to assist me with my research. Being somewhat old-school, I often find myself simply browsing the wonderful stacks in the Roberts Library Research Room covering a wide range of pertinent and historical topics.

Do you have the right to write for the CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas?

I’ve had occasion recently to visit with some of the people who were on the ground floor of creating the Encyclopedia of Arkansas in the early 2000s (I did not join the staff until 2005). Amid general discussion about what they envisioned for the EOA,

In 2018, Butler Center Books published a century-old true-crime tale: Remembering Ella: A 1912 Murder and Mystery in the Arkansas Ozarks by Nita Gould.

In November 1912, popular and pretty eighteen-year-old Ella Barham was raped, murdered, and dismembered in broad daylight near her home in rural Boone County,

On this Valentine’s Day, we’re thinking about love in the Natural State, turning our focus to some Arkansas couples who have made an impact on the state, nation, and world. Click on the names in the title of each to read the full entry on the CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas.

Dale Evans and Roy Rogers

Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton

Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash

Elton and Betty White

Dale Bumpers and Betty Bumpers

Lucious Christopher (L.

The eighth-grade homeroom classroom of Mrs. Bernice K. Underwood at Dunbar High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is where their story began. He sat on the first row with classmates Wilson Williams, Douglas Peters, Alvin Liggins, and Romania Savage. She sat on the sixth row with Lela Camp and Mrs. Underwood. Another two dozen students occupied space in that class.

We have one main goal: to connect you with the information you are searching for.

A visit to the reference desk in the Research Room of the CALS Roberts Library grants you access to a collection of materials housed in this space, held by the CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Center for Arkansas History and Culture.