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The Department of History at the University of Arkansas has been host to many a first. Phi Alpha Theta, the largest college honor society devoted to a single discipline with 820 chapters in the U.S. and three other countries, was founded on the University of Arkansas campus on March 17, 1921. In addition, department alumni are to be found in most every remunerative profession, at least all the res
05/05/2026
Check out this great video from the American Historical Association!
Historians at Work: Career Pathways for History PhDs
American Historical Association 2 likes. "Historians at Work: Career Pathways for History PhDs"
04/24/2026
TODAY!
History Awards Cookout TODAY FROM 3-5pm. Find a duck (not the big one) win a prize!
04/17/2026
TODAY!!! We hope to see you there!
04/16/2026
Amanda Scott (Penn State) will be giving a lecture TOMORROW titled Making a Sixteenth-Century Murderer: Disability, Crime, and Mobility in Early Modern Spain.
Date: Friday, April 17
Time: 2:00 PM
Place: CORD 324.
Summary: Making of a Sixteenth-Century Murder is a microhistory of the tragedy of Bernart de Urt, a French teenager with intellectual and physical disabilities who was arrested in northern Spain in 1585 and charged with assault, robbery, and multiple homicide. The story itself is a dramatic mystery—involving mistaken identity, pilgrimage, close saves, dedicated attorneys, and oddly, even Canada—but it should also leave us unsettled about our modern abilities to provide legal care and representation to people with special needs. Paired with select other case studies of other poor travelers and pilgrims with disabilities who were viewed with suspicion by the communities they passed through, this talk considers how courts imagined criminals into existence, and how crime, disability, and poverty were thought of as intertwined identities during this period.
04/13/2026
04/10/2026
Like Dracula? Like History of Medicine and Science? Then this lecture is for you! This lecture is free, it will be livestreamed, but you do need to RSVP.
Join us for the annual History of Medicine and Science Lecture! This year, we’re excited to welcome Dacre Stoker — great-grandnephew of Bram Stoker — as our guest speaker. A Canadian author, he has co-written best-sellers Dracula the Un-dead and Dracul, continuing the legacy of the iconic gothic classic. Discover the medical connections behind Dracula. This free event is open to all.
Register here: https://medicine.uams.edu/neurosurgery/events/history-of-medicine/
04/09/2026
HIST's Dr. Jared Phillips was quoted in this NYTimes article. Check it out!
These Homesteaders Prep for the End of the World at Oklahoma Expo (Gift Article) Homesteading, for all its bucolic imagery, taps into the desire to escape from the disquiet of modern America, where anything can happen.
04/09/2026
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