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The Arkansas General Assembly is to be commended for deciding to extend Medicaid benefits to the working poor of the state. It is nice to see Arkansas in the vanguard of states trying to deal with the health needs of the poor. Throughout most of our history, Arkansas has been slow to come to the aid of the downtrodden.
Recent efforts by Republican legislators to make it more difficult to vote in Arkansas have an almost direct parallel from the 1800s, but the party roles are reversed.
Recent efforts by Republican legislators to make it more difficult to vote in Arkansas have an almost direct parallel from the 1800s, but the party roles are reversed.
All Christian comfort is denied, Dog Days! The great bulk of 19th-century Arkansans had to be stoic since they could not afford to spend two months in the Adirondacks each summer. This was especially true of women. Wives cooked meals on open fireplaces, or after about 1890, on wood-burning cast iron stoves. Both women and men often worked long hours in the cotton or corn fields. Life was most uncomfortable for enslaved men and women, who often labored under both a hot sun and an armed overseer. Fortunately for farmers and laborers, many of the row crops had been hoed and "laid by" before the ...
All Christian comfort is denied, Dog Days! The great bulk of 19th-century Arkansans had to be stoic since they could not afford to spend two months in the Adirondacks each summer. This was especially true of women. Wives cooked meals on open fireplaces, or after about 1890, on wood-burning cast iron stoves. Both women and men often worked long hours in the cotton or corn fields. Life was most uncomfortable for enslaved men and women who often labored under both a hot sun and an armed overseer. Fortunately for farmers and laborers, many of the row crops had been hoed and "laid by" before the d...