UCA History Department

09/29/2026

UCA's History Department was well represented at the recent Arkansas Association of College History Teachers (AACHT) conference in Little Rock! Prof. Adams and Drs. Totten, Scribner, and Anderson showed their Bear Pride, and Dr. Scribner delivered the keynote address.

09/15/2026

Now available in the History Department suite: The Historian's Puzzle Table! Students (and staff and faculty) can come by anytime to chill and click in a few pieces. Our first one has already been completed, but there are more to choose from!

09/03/2026

Did you graduate with a History degree from UCA from 2016-2026? Please help the dept with our required self study by answering a couple questions! https://forms.gle/cdzbgTLWrhX2iyqw6 (and if you know someone who is, can you share this?

Dear Alums, We miss you! As part of our required 10-year self study, we must include what our alums are doing. Please take a couple minutes to answer these questions for us. We are also going to start a newsletter. If you'd like 2-3 emails a year that tell you what's going on with us, please give us...

08/20/2026

07/30/2026

It's double trouble! Recently, our own Prof. Adams and Dr. Smith visited the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History to conduct a National History Day workshop. Of course, around here every day is History Day!

06/03/2026

Why, look at that! It's our own Dr. Anderson at the Alliance for Texas History's annual conference, where she ran into the Department's newest member Dr. Lucius Seger, who presented a paper on Texas anti-lynching politics in the 1890s.

05/28/2026

Hey! Hey! Our alum Sydney Scroggins (BSE '25) just won the Lakeside School District's "Rookie of the Year" for her outstanding work teaching 7th grade US History and high school civics! She also took several students to the Arkansas History Day state finals!

We're so proud of her amazing work, and we know there's more achievements to come. Check out her appearance on the "History after Hours" podcast. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/season-11-episode-10-trust-but-verify/id1481733865?i=1000769516641

05/12/2026

Sure, it's been more than a week since graduation, but we're so proud of our newest History Department alums that we wanted to show you the scene before everyone marched out to start the ceremony! Congratulations, grads!

05/03/2026

Big shoutout to our Spring 2026 history graduates. We are so grateful to have had so many talented scholars spend their undergrad at UCA, so sad to see them all go🥲.

We wish all of you good luck on your future careers and other education!