CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas Presents MONDAY MALADIES

Speaker: Janis K. Percefull, historian, author, educator, and public speaker

Janis K. Percefull earned a BA in History at Ouachita Baptist University and a master’s in public history from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. As a graduate student, she was awarded the UAMS History of Medicine Research Award (2001) and won the UALR Gender Studies Research Paper Contest (2003).

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With the COVID-19 pandemic having caused more than 100,000 deaths in the United States alone by the beginning of June 2020,

U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Arkansas District Director Edward Haddock will lead a discussion of Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL). EIDLs are designed to provide economic relief to businesses that are currently experiencing a temporary loss of revenue.

This event will be delivered virtually on the Zoom platform. Registration is free, but required. For security reasons, a free Zoom account will be required to accept the Zoom invitation. You will receive an email confirmation when you register; an invitation to the Zoom event will be emailed by 2pm on the day of the event.

CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas Presents

The worldwide demonstrations against racism and police brutality that followed the murder of George Floyd earlier this year drew attention to the deep history of race and violence in the United States and beyond. At the same time, these demonstrations raised the questions:

• Where do we go from here?
• How do we achieve a future in which reconciliation and restoration finally become a reality for all people?

CALS Roberts Library presents author Libby Copeland in a virtual program about her book The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Upending Who We Are. 

The book talk will be a Zoom webinar and will be streamed to YouTube Live, and then archived on YouTube for later viewing. Attendees must register to participate in Zoom webinar and ask questions of the speaker. 

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About The Lost Family

The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Upending Who We Are (Abrams,

CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas Presents MONDAY MALADIES

Speaker: Rachel Patton, executive director of Preserve Arkansas

Rachel Patton is a native of Farmington, Arkansas. She holds a BA in history/political science from Arkansas Tech University and a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. With more than twelve years of experience working in historic preservation in Arkansas, she currently serves as executive director of Preserve Arkansas,

CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Presents LEGACIES & LUNCH

Speaker: Elliott West, Alumni Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville

The fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee offers us a chance to look back on the impact it had at the time and to think about how our understanding of American Indian history has evolved since then.