John A. Kirk

Kirk Wins Susie Pryor Award for Research Dr. John A. Kirk, George W. Donaghey Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, has been awarded the Susie Pryor Award for his article examining ... Kirk Wins Sus...

With thanks to the Arkansas Women’s History Institute for the award! ualr.edu/news/2025/06...

This week I am taking Arkansas history on the road from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock to Turun yliopisto - University of Turku in Finland for the 2025 Nordic Association of American Studies conference 🇺🇸🇫🇮 #NAASpriations #NAASpirations2025

‘There’s quite a similarity’: US civil rights pioneers warn of ‘surge backwards’ under Trump They faced violence and racism as they fought on the frontlines for justice and equality. Now Trump is reversing the progress they toiled for

“I think that if anyone who never lived through what we [the Little Rock Nine] lived through and need to understand what it was like, they can look at January 6,” said [Carlotta] Walls Lanier, 82. “I see the two being equal, 23 September 1957 and 6 January 2021.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Happy Daisy Gatson Bates Day!

Go see the exhibit and listen to my talk on February 19.

Happy MLK Day!

A Transformative Gift: The Rockefeller Legacy and the Arts in Arkansas - Event Calendar | AMFA In 1955, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé—daughter of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., sister of future Governor Winthrop Rockefeller, and sister-in-law of future Arkansas First Lady Jeannette Edris Rockefeller (pictu...

Get your free ticket to my talk “A Transformative Gift: The Rockefeller Legacy and the Arts in Arkansas,” February 19, 10:30-11:30 am, at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, by clicking the link below. events.arkmfa.org/event/the-ro...

A Transformative Gift: The Rockefeller Legacy and the Arts in Arkansas - Event Calendar | AMFA In 1955, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé—daughter of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and sister of future Governor Winthrop Rockefeller—made a significant gift to the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, then called the […...

Come, see and hear. events.arkmfa.org/event/the-ro...

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