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Featured this time is a three-minute video that came to the CALS Butler Center as part of our Home Movies Collection.

The film footage (now digitized) very likely shows the wreckage following the crash of a B-47 bomber that had taken off on the morning of March 31,

In this year’s one-day summer seminar, “Tools for Teaching and Learning Difficult History: Racial Violence in Arkansas, the 1919 Elaine Massacre and a Century of Lynching, 1836–1936,” educators received support and guidance for the challenging but crucial task of teaching history such as the Elaine Massacre. Noted historians shared primary documents that connect racial violence in Arkansas to larger issues in U.S.

Reaching Out to Make Contact Through the Library’s Archives

Today’s world holds two Koreas: one, a free, democratic society, the other, a tyrannical dictatorship known for human suffering worse than any Orwellian dystopia. For many Americans, it may be easy to forget that a major reason South Korea exists in freedom today is because of the sacrifices of many of our citizens who fought in the Korean War.

“I created spaces high up in trees to take refuge in . . .” Elizabeth Weber, artist

When you sit down to talk with artist Elizabeth Weber, the first thing you feel is a powerful sense of space opening around you, like a nest. Inside the nest, Elizabeth is present with you,

Soon, the Facebook and Twitter accounts currently labeled as “CALS Butler Center” will have a different name: CALS Roberts Library! No worries: it’s still the same account and will give you all the news and information you want from this branch of our library system, including the latest from the Galleries at Library Square and the Butler Center.

Butler Center Books is funded solely through sales of its books and donations from the public. Donations may be made through www.cals.org by clicking on the CALS Foundation tab. Butler Center Books has more than sixty titles in print and available to order.

Books are available in bookstores, including the Bookstore at Library Square in Little Rock;

This year’s speaker, Angela Y. Walton-Raji, is known nationally for her genealogical and historical research, particularly her work on African American genealogy, the Civil War west of the Mississippi, Oklahoma Native Americans, benevolent societies, and nineteenth-century women. Her book Black Indian Genealogy Research is the only one of its kind focusing on the unique record set reflecting Freedmen found within the Dawes Records.

We need photographs, documents, videos, maps, and audio clips to help make the CALS EOA the most comprehensive and engaging resource on Arkansas history.

Entries needing media:

Anthonyville (Crittenden County)

Arkansas Entomological Society

Avilla (Saline County)

Bachman’s Warbler

Bearden Waterworks

Blackfish Lake Ferry Site

Anita Blackmon

Richard Nott Antrim

Blue Wing No.

Entries Needing Authors:

American Airlines Flight 1420

Arkansas Business Publishing Group

Arkansas Living Treasure Award

Wes Bentley

Big Dam Bridge

Bill Moran School of Bladesmithing

Broadway Bridge

V. L. Cox

“Fables of Faubus” [Song]

From Slavery to Wealth [Book]

Gideon Page Series [Book Series]

Hot Springs Railroad (a.k.a.

This feature of our Butler Banner invites readers to click their way into our many and varied digital resources. Featured this time is a recently digitized 92-page pamphlet published in December 1907 as a “review of the Manufacturing, Mechanical, Mercantile, Mineral, Climatic, Municipal, Educational, and Denominational interests of the City of Little Rock,