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If Arkansas had extended its Civil War Sesquicentennial commemorations through Reconstruction, we would be in 1873 by now. In fact, we would be getting ready for Brooks-Baxter 150. I imagine the Old State House Museum will offer some lectures on the subject next year.

By Dr. Ken Bridges

PG | 1 h 44 min | Drama | 1939 “We all have to die. The tragic difference ...

Collegiate School of Medicine and Bioscience students return to in-person classes for the first time in more than a month.

I discovered years ago the best way to learn about a city is to run through it. Literally. When my travels include an overnight stay, I make sure to take time to lace up my running shoes and plot a course through a foreign towns history.

Students at Collegiate School of Medicine and Bioscience are set to start virtual instruction on Wednesday and return to in-person learning the following week or by the end of the month at the latest. There is no timeline yet for their counterparts at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School to return to class, whether in person or virtually.

We would laugh at the sign in downtown Prescott when I was a boy growing up in Arkadelphia. It declared Prescott, a town we passed through on the way down U.S. 67 to Texas, to be the "Hub of Vacationland."

One of the last public duels in Arkansas took place 159 years ago today on the eastern fringe of what is now North Little Rock.

It’s a classic American tale: A family member passes away, and relatives discover their long-lost historical artifacts in the attic.

It’s a classic American tale: A family member passes away, and relatives discover their long-lost historical artifacts in the attic. In Nancy Woodward’s case, the artifacts are the personal diaries of her ancestor, a Civil War Union cavalry officer, Capt. Benjamin Tolbert Humphrey.