Arkansas -- Politics and government
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Arkansas Archives of Public Communication
Collection
Identifier: MC 942
Scope and Content Note
A substantial portion of the Archives, including 36 folders, 65 audiotapes, and 29 videotapes, pertains to the career of Bill Clinton. These materials date primarily from 1974 to 1986, and include items from his campaigns to be elected representative to Congress, state attorney general, and governor of Arkansas. These items include campaign flyers, posters, bumper stickers, and pins, as well as the texts of speeches and letters. Of interest are several exploratory polls that aided Clinton in...
Dates:
1890-1996
Trey Berry Interviews
Collection
Identifier: MC 1508
Scope and Content Note
Recorded interviews
Dates:
1987
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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Trey Berry Interviews
Arthur Brann Caldwell Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS C127 209 209A-F
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, memoranda, addresses, reports, photographs, printed materials, and other records created, received, or collected by Caldwell. Most items are dated in the period 1950-1970, Specific areas to which materials pertain include: University of Arkansas Glee Club, 1927-1928; Arkansas and national political affairs, ca. 1917-1974; Japanese-Americans in the U.S. armed forces and the U.S. War Relocation Authority relocation centers in World War II; civil rights legislation...
Dates:
1912-1975
John Samuel Faubus Correspondence and Miscellaneous Records
Collection
Identifier: MS F27js 301
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and other records created or received by John Samuel Faubus. Records consist principally of correspondence, exchanged 1942-1966 with political leaders and with political sympathetic "Free-thinkers" and "Liberals," in expression of political opinions. Included are copies of Faubus' letters, many pseudonymous, addressed to editors of newspapers and intended for publication. Other records, pertaining to Orval E. Faubus, include war-time (1944-1945)...
Dates:
1913-1966
Faubus Oral History Interview Project Materials
Collection
Identifier: MC 1762
Scope and Content Note
The Faubus Oral History Interview Project Materials contains notes, transcripts, newspaper clippings, photocopied reproductions of archival materials, and tape cassette recordings of interviews that were conducted as part of Tom Wagy's project. The materials are divided into three series and are arranged according to original order.
Dates:
1855-1999
Orval E. Faubus Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 467
Scope and Content Note
The papers document the tenure of Faubus as director of the Arkansas Department of Veterans Affairs, an assistance agency for veterans and their dependents. The collection is arranged in four series and consists of biographical information, employment correspondence, miscellaneous correspondence, and invitations and engagements. The bulk of the two series of correspondence consists of request from veterans seeking intervention by Faubus on their behalf and requests for interviews and...
Dates:
1981-1983
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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Orval E. Faubus Papers
Orval Eugene Faubus Interview
Collection
Identifier: MC 512
Scope and Content Note
Interview of Orval Eugene Faubus conducted by Jacquelyn R. George for credit in a political science course at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Topics discussed by Faubus include his administration's tax increases, accomplishments, and legacy. Brief synopsis of interview in accession file.
Dates:
1981
Orval Eugene Faubus Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS F27 301 FAUBUS
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, speeches, diary, lists, notes, petitions, certificates, clippings, literary manuscripts, legislative bills, scrapbooks, sound recordings, motion picture film, financial, legal, military, and other records created, received, or collected by Faubus (1910-1978) or by staff members of the Arkansas gubernatorial office (1955-1967). Records pertain, for the most part, to the operations (1955-1967) of Arkansas state constitutional and other offices,...
Dates:
1910-1978; Majority of material found within 1939-1974
Orval Eugene Faubus Papers Addendum
Collection
Identifier: MC 922
Scope and Content Note
This collection is essentially a continuation of the Orval Eugene Faubus Papers, 1910...(1939-74)-1978 (MS/F27/301/FAUBUS). Materials in this collection pertain primarily to the life of Orval Faubus following his six terms as governor of Arkansas. Included are items pertaining to his marriage to Elizabeth (Beth) Drake Thompson Westmoreland (1969); his adoption of her daughter, Kim Elizabeth, and son, Frederick ("Ric" or "Ricci") King (1971); Beth's death (1983); and his marriage to Janice...
Dates:
1928-1994
George Fisher Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1495
Abstract
Cartoons, art, correspondence, clippings, photographs, and artifacts from the life of George Fisher, a political cartoonist from Arkansas.
Dates:
1918-2003
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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George Fisher Papers
Albert King Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1683
Content Description
The collection consists of speeches, campaign materials, newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, and other materials, primarily regarding the Madison County, Arkansas political career of Albert King and reflecting King's involvement with Carl E. Bailey and Orval Faubus' gubernatorial campaigns.
Dates:
circa 1890-1983
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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Albert King Papers
Roy Reed Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1083
Scope and Content Note
The collection comprises personal, academic and professional/research records. The personal records consist mostly of correspondence and files pertaining to Reed’s studies at Harvard University. The academic records pertain to the classes taught by Reed, such as classroom lecture notes, syllabi, tests, newspaper and magazine articles, typescripts, and other classroom items created and collected by him. The professional/research records contain subject files that concern primarily Reed’s...
Dates:
1951-1998
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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Roy Reed Papers
Walter E. Rowland Faubus, Arkansas and Education Typescript
Collection
Identifier: MC 1109
Scope and Content Note
Typescript of Walter E. Rowland's book, Faubus, Arkansas and Education, published in 1989 by River Road Press, Conway, Arkansas. 302 pages.
Dates:
1989