Old State House Museum: "Them Dark Days": The Arkansas Slave Narratives

Young historians practice in-depth, quality analysis of primary source texts in this three-lesson unit, which examines excerpts from the slave narratives of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and Caleb...

The Old State House Museum is a multimedia treasure of Arkansas history, people, and culture.The main site. An informative web site; a wonderful place to visit in person to learn the history of Arkansas!

The music and musicians of Arkansas are the focus of this exhibit. Learn about different instruments, forms of music, and people like Johnny Cash, Conway Twitty, Scott Joplin, and many more.

The social struggle for and against drink in Arkansas is the focus of this expansive exhibit, including the Temperance and Prohibition Movements. This interactive site is divided into chronological narratives with detailed information...

Take a pictorial journey back in time to experience the Great Depression as it occurred for many Arkansas people. Photos of the time create a visual history of the 1930's.

Get to know the governors of Arkansas! Each biography is found within its historical time period.

Meet Geleve Grice, famed Arkansas photographer! A photo slideshow presents his story with the contributions and achievements he successfully made.

Helpful for an American literature or history unit, this lesson prompts middle schoolers to examine slavery in the United States. They read slave narratives that were part of the Federal Writers' Project and then conduct their own...

Readers of Solomon Northup's brutally frank slave narrative Twelve Years a Slave examine passages that support the argument that slavery "undermined and corrupted" the institution of marriage. Background information is...

The unofficial virtual White House Museum is an exhausting interactive collection of the history and architecture of the White House.