November 19, 2009 | Posted by javal A windshield tour of Pea Ridge National Military Park is how most visitors see the Civil War battlefield where muskets and cannons roared during the Battle of Pea Ridge.
Hikers on two feet enjoy a longer, more detailed look at the national park, including forests, meadows and a hidden lake that visitors on the seven-mile auto [...]
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October 19, 2009 | Posted by javal A weekend fire has destroyed a Shawnee County house that was thought to have been a way station on the Underground Railroad.
Authorities said the historic Owen House was fully engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived early Saturday.
No one was hurt in the blaze.
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September 23, 2009 | Posted by javal It’s the final resting place for some Civil War soldiers and some civil-rights leaders, but friends of Haven of Rest say the Little Rock cemetery is in bad shape.
In 2007, Governor Mike Beebe signed legislation to address concerns, but the group says there hasn’t been much improvement.
Friends of Haven of Rest Cemetery have organized five [...]
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September 18, 2009 | Posted by javal The traveling exhibition “Lee and Grant,” which focuses on the lives of the two Civil War generals, is to have a two-month run at the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History in Little Rock, organizers announced Thursday.
The show is scheduled to run Nov. 13-Jan. 9, which will coincide with a nine-month exhibition, “World of [...]
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September 16, 2009 | Posted by javal Professor Eric Foner, the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, will speak on “Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and Slavery” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24, in the E.J. Ball Courtroom in the Leflar Law Center as part of the University of Arkansas Hartman Hotz Lectures in Law and Liberal Arts.
Foner, who has served [...]
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July 28, 2009 | Posted by javal The Sons of Confederate Veterans has approved a resolution calling for an economic boycott of the town of Jonesborough.
The group, which is comprised of about 32,000 descendents of Confederate soldiers, held its annual convention last week in Hot Springs, Ark. A resolution drafted and submitted by the Southern Legal Resource Center was introduced during [...]
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July 20, 2009 | Posted by javal A proposed $1.5 million project unveiled Saturday will highlight the lives of Phillips County residents, both black and white, during the Civil War.
Officials say visitors will learn a little-known part of the area’s history once the plans are completed in 2011.
They hope the project will entice Civil War buffs to visit the Phillips County town [...]
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July 17, 2009 | Posted by javal If you hear the sounds of cannons firing in Helena-West Helena Saturday morning your ears are not deceiving you. It will be part of the ceremonies unveiling a master plan to promote the city’s Civil War heritage. It all begins with the opening ceremonies at 9 a.m. at the future site of Freedom Park, just [...]
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July 9, 2009 | Posted by javal Pea Ridge — Fire and smoke no longer rocket from scorching hot cannon barrels at Pea Ridge National Military Park, but the big guns might be loaded nonetheless.
“It’s not unusual for someone to look inside one of the cannons and have an eastern starling fly out right in their face,” said Greg Wolcott, birder extraordinaire [...]
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June 23, 2009 | Posted by javal The Pea Ridge National Military Park in Northwest Arkansas must be spared the fate that befell the Civil War battlefield at Manassas in northern Virginia, said a national parks support group.
Like the Manassas National Battlefield Park, the Pea Ridge battlefield in Northwest Arkansas is threatened by burgeoning development, though both are protected as units of [...]
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