So far the 72-year-old former governor of Arkansas is the only one who has not gone ballistic about Trump’s recent indictment. This probably means he has no chance to win the nomination. Here is ABC News: Former Arkansas Gov. Asa...
Former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson, who many believe will run for president in 2024, called upon Donald Trump to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race. Here is The Hill: Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) said Trump should “step aside” from the...
Brooks R. Blevins is Professor of History at Missouri State University. This interview is based on his new book, Up South in the Ozarks: Dispatches from the Margins (University of Arkansas Press, 2023). JF: What led you to write Up...
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Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson now regrets signing the state’s mask mandate into law. Here is Richard Fausset at The New York Times: In March, with the number of new coronavirus cases plummeting in Arkansas, Gov. Asa Hutchinson let expire the statewide...
The former former Trump press secretary and gubernatorial candidate is calling her fellow Arkansans to take the vaccine. Only 35.62% of the Arkansas’s population is vaccinated. Only Mississippi and Alabama have lower vaccination rates. As expected, Huckabee Sanders is incapable...
Kelly Jones is Assistant Professor of History at Arkansas Tech University. This interview is based on her new book, A Weary Land: Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas (University of Georgia Press, 2021). JF: What led you to write A...
Here is ABC News: A longtime Arkansas legislator and nephew of the state’s Republican governor said Thursday that he’s leaving the GOP, citing Donald Trump‘s rhetoric and the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol by the former president’s supporters. State Sen....
Here we go: For about two years Sarah Huckabee Sanders stood-up and lied for Donald Trump. Now she is running for governor of Arkansas in 2022. Her opponents in the GOP primary include Lieutenant Governor and former U.S. representative Tim...
Here is a taste of a report from The Washington Post on how one group of churches in Arkansas decided to deal with Sunday services today: In Arkansas, the Rev. Josh King met with the pastors of five other churches...
Learn more here: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyWvVDU23RU&w=560&h=315] Ryerse is a graduate of Summit University (formerly Baptist Bible College) in Clarks Summit, PA and Biblical Theological Seminary in Hatfield, PA. Summit University has roots in the fundamentalist General Association of Regular Baptist Churches. ...
Over at The Atlantic, Anne Lowrey writes about Yellville, Arkansas, a place where they throw turkeys out of planes. (NOTE: This story is not about Les Nessman or WKRP in Cincinnati, although this episode of the well-known sitcom is mentioned in...
I spent the day on Wednesday at John Brown University (JBU) in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. (It was my first trip to the “Natural State”). Trisha Posey, Director of the University Honors Program, and Daniel Bennett, Assistant Professor of Political Science, invited...
Earlier this week I wrote a piece on Arkansas’s decision to place a monument commemorating the Ten Commandments at the State Capitol in Little Rock. The day after the monument was erected, a guy named Michael Tate Reed drove his...
Here we go again. A Ten Commandments monument now sits outside the Arkansas Capitol in Little Rock. As some monuments are taken down in the United States, others go up. If we have learned one thing through the recent and ongoing...
Our reports from the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians (OAH) continue to roll into The Way of Improvement Leads Home. This report comes from Melissa Daggett, an instructor of United States history at San Jacinto College in...
Kim Hendren, an Arkansas state legislator, wants to ban Howard Zinn‘s books from Arkansas public schools. Here is a taste of a news story from “Common Dreams” website: A Republican Arkansas lawmaker has introduced legislation to ban the works of...
OK, not really. But for a moment I was wondering if I should add “find a wife” to my So What CAN You Do With a History Major? series.” Read about Bret Bielema‘s “career” as a history professor at Fox...
