History Archives - Arkansas Times

Hazel: an excerpt from 'The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America’s Forgotten Capital of Vice'

David Hill 7/6/20 10:11am

Hot Springs was “running wide open,” with casino gambling happening in full view of God and everybody.

Ticks, cows and the war on contagions

Blake Perkins 5/1/20 9:49am

A forgotten historical parallel to the coronavirus pandemic.

A civil rights crossroads in Little Rock

John Kirk 1/30/20 3:13pm

The 1974 National Black Political Convention.

The racist roots of anti-unionism in Arkansas

Michael Pierce 11/26/19 1:57pm

Motivated by money and white supremacist beliefs, the state farm bureau, chambers of commerce and others lined up with segregationists to enact the ‘right to work’ law.

A look at old Little Rock via the Hotel Sam Peck

Arkansas Times Staff 11/5/19 2:40pm

From memoirs by Henryetta Peck and Robert Peck

Winthrop Rockefeller's vision for public education started with Morrilton model school

John Kirk 10/31/19 11:20am

In 1956, Winthrop Rockefeller made his local school district in Morrilton an offer that it surely could not refuse: unlimited access to his considerable inherited Standard Oil fortune to fund a model school program that would be the envy of the state, the South and the nation.