I use a bicycle whenever I can for travel, both for commuting and touring.
In 2024, Lisa Pruitt, a UC-Davis professor, sought help in creating a color map of Washington to illustrate research on procedural fairness in six rural and six metropolitan counties. The aim was to highlight disparities in legal representation, culminating in a publication in the Yale Law Journal in March 2025. … More Legal Deserts in Washington
Black students began earning degrees from state flagship universities primarily after Reconstruction. … More Integration of Higher Education
During the early part of the 20th century, as automobiles came into vogue, various communities and states began forming associations to create improved motorist routes between themselves and other distant points. Among such routes, the Jefferson Highway proved to be the first successful north-south transcontinental route in the United States. Its northern terminus was Winnipeg, … More Jefferson Highway
This pen and ink image of a Belgian draft horse was based on a photograph and created as illustration for a story by Denele Campbell in Ozark Hollow. … More ‘The Belgian’
Two books offer a look back at Fayetteville’s general history and give a depth of understanding to the factors that shaped the city since 1828. … More Books by Charlie Alison
These sesquicentennial episodes ran each Wednesday on KUAF’s Ozarks at Large. … More Sesquicentennial Podcast
Over a period of years, I researched a bicycle touring map of Scenic Highway 7 in Arkansas and produced a booklet that provides information on campgrounds, hotels, restaurants, groceries, bicycle shops, visitor centers and cultural amenities for someone who wants to travel the 300-mile-long highway by bicycle. The guide also gives distances between points and … More Bicycle Touring Guide to Scenic Highway 7
“Buddy” Portis, best known for his frontier novel True Grit, died Monday, Feb. 17, 2020, at Little Rock. He was 86. Alumnus Charles Portis earned a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from the University of Arkansas in 1958 and then worked as a newspaper reporter for several years, but he was best known for his … More In Memoriam: Charles Portis
A shift in Arkansas voters’ presidential preferences continued in 2016 toward the Republican candidate, except in the state’s three most populace counties. … More Shift in Presidential Vote
A University of Arkansas alumna, Louise McPhetridge set records during the early days of aviation for altitude, for time aloft and for transcontinental speed. … More Arkansas Aviatrix
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