Arkansas Historical Association To Meet In Monticello
February 18, 2003

FAYETTEVILLE, AR- The sixty-second annual conference 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.

On Friday and Saturday, April 25 and 26, scholars will read and discuss papers examining the Louisiana Purchase and other topics in five conference sessions. 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 discuss "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. Those attending the conference 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, for best book in Arkansas history, and for outstanding county and local journals will be presented at the annual banquet on Friday evening.

The conference is supported in part through a grant from the Arkansas Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

For registration information contact Rhonda Camp, (479) 575-5884, e-mail: rcamp@uark.edu, or write the Arkansas Historical Association, Old Main 416, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701. Registration information is also available on the web at http://www.uark.edu/depts/arkhist/home/annual.html.