Arkansas Historical Association To Meet In Monticello

JAN. 28, 2003 - FAYETTEVILLE, ARB The sixty-second annual meeting of the Arkansas Historical Association will be held in Monticello, April 24-26. The theme of this year's meeting is "Arkansas in the Era of the Louisiana Purchase".

Ben Johnson, Southern Arkansas University at Magnolia is the program chair. Connie Mullis of Monticello and Donald Holley, University of Arkansas at Monticello are local arrangements chairs.

Scholars will read and discuss papers in five paper sessions, many related to the Louisiana Purchase,on Friday and Saturday. Speakers will include S.Charles Bolton, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, who will discuss "Thomas Jefferson and the Arkansas Cherokee;" Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr. Director, American Native Press Archives, UALR, who will speak on "Indians in (and out of) Arkansas," and Trey Berry, Ouachita Baptist University, who will speak on "Thomas Jefferson and William Dunbar: Southern Men of the Enlightenment." Judge William R. Wilson, United States District Court, Eastern District of Arkansas, will be the speaker at the Friday night awards banquet at 7:30 p.m. Participants will also tour historic sites in Monticello.

Association awards for excellence in the teaching of Arkansas history, for best manuscripts on local and state history, and for outstanding county and local journals will be presented at the annual banquet on Friday evening.
The meeting is supported in part through a grant from the Arkansas Humanities Council.

For registration information contact Rhonda Camp, (501) 575-5884, e-mail: rhondak@uark.edu, or write the Arkansas Historical Association, Old Main 416, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701.