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Events for May 3, 0012 - October 4
August 2 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Ashley Clayborn: “Grassroots Placemaking: Fostering Social Capital and a ‘Sense of Place’ in Arkansas”
CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Presents LEGACIES & LUNCH
Speaker: Ashley Clayborn
Ashley Clayborn, communication strategist, will use her academic research and her experience as a digital content creator to explore grassroots placemaking in Arkansas. Placemaking is the process through which people shape their physical and social landscape to encourage social, political, and economic engagement in one’s community.
Ashley Clayborn is a folkways storytelling and public history enthusiast originally from southwestern Arkansas.
September 6 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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John C. Rodrigue: “The Destruction of Slavery in Arkansas”
CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Presents LEGACIES & LUNCH
Speaker: John C. Rodrigue
John C. Rodrigue will discuss his book Freedom’s Crescent, which examines the destruction of slavery in the four states of the lower Mississippi River valley—Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee—during and just after the Civil War. Beginning with Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860 and ending with final ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865,
October 4 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Josh Parshall: “Digital History and Jewish Arkansas”
CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Presents LEGACIES & LUNCH
Speaker: Josh Parshall
In 2006, the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life (ISJL) launched the Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities, a free online resource that documents Jewish histories across the region. The Arkansas section, featuring nineteen local entries, debuted in spring 2007. Sixteen years later, ISJL Director of History Josh Parshall is working on revisions and updates to the Arkansas essays.
The landscape of digital history has transformed since the Arkansas section originally appeared,
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