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Theodore Roosevelt was probably the first post-Civil War chief executive to attract the fascination and excitement of people in both the North and the South. In a way, the Spanish-American War of  ... Read More

The Old State House Museum (OSHM) is seeking donations of items and memorabilia related to Arkansas governors. OSHM, a museum of the Department of Arkansas Heritage (DAH), is gathering the ite ... Read More

Admittedly, for the first century of Arkansas’s statehood, our state was not what one would call a “must visit” destination for either the occupants of the White House, or for that matter, those w ... Read More

She was the local beauty who made heads turn in Lonoke. He was the rising trial attorney with political ambitions. Together, Ewilda Gertrude Miller and Joseph Taylor Robinson would blaze a trail f ... Read More

Orval Faubus wrote a two volume autobiography in the 1980s entitled Down From the Hills, in which the second volume was called Down From the Hills, Two. But from the day that he met Alta Haskins a ... Read More

Born on December 26, 1938, in Fayetteville, Barbara Jean Lunsford was the only daughter, and late Christmas gift, to Bruce and RosaLee Lunsford. In her freshman year at the University of Ark ... Read More

A local features writer once began a biographical sketch with this lead in: “In The Princess Diaries movies we were introduced to Mia Thermopolis who rises from humble beginnings to become royalty ... Read More

The Old State House Museum will present the premiere reading of a new play, “Helaine and the Little War,” October 21 at 2 p.m. The play, written by playwright David Eshelman and songwriters Ch ... Read More

Betty Flanagan traveled far on life’s journey, from a small town elementary school teacher to her state’s First Lady and a globally recognized advocate for peace among nations in dangerous times.  ... Read More

Join National Parks Historian Emeritus Edwin Bearss at the Old State House Museum (OSHM) on Oct. 18 for a special presentation on Confederate Maj. Gen. Patrick Cleburne, who was known as “the Ston ... Read More