Between 1861 - 1918 - Arkansas History - Research Guides at University of Arkansas

Between 1861 - 1918

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Index Arkansas This link opens in a new window
Covers: dates of coverage vary by title. Indexes periodical and newspaper articles and book chapters on Arkansas topics. In some cases, journals are indexed back to the first date of issue through current.

"Goodspeed Histories"
Call Number: ARK COLL, various
These histories of various regions within Arkansas, originally published in the 1890s, contain copious information on counties and prominent citizens. Copies in MAIN and ARK COLL. Regions covered include Eastern (F411 .B6 1978), Western (F411 .B67 1978), Northeast (F 411 .B61 1978), Southern (F 411 .B65), Northwest (F 411 .H68 1978), Central (F 411 .B63), and Ozarks (F 417 .O9 R42 1978). A biographical index to the set is also available.
Read more at the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture

Social Explorer This link opens in a new window
Covers: 1789- .An online research tool designed to provide access to current and historical census data, election results, and demographic information. It covers US census and electoral history - at the county level - from 1790 to 2010, as well as more recent data from the American Community Survey , the Religious Congregations and Membership Study (RCMS), and carbon emissions data.

Presidential Ballots,1836-1892
Walter Dean Burnham.
MAIN - RES JK524 .B8.
Tables of votes by county.
Voting America: United States Politics, 1840-2008
Maps and tables of county-level voting in presidential elections
War of the Rebellion: The Official Records of the A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
Known familiarly as the "OR." Will contain descriptions of actions and campaigns. Search the full text or use the printed indexes, "Military Operations of the Civil War." in REF E470 .U63.
Historical Records Survey - Works Progress Administration Records: Arkansas, MSH 62
This manuscript collection consists of 266 feet of reports, memoranda, correspondence, and other material constituting the central office and field work files of the Arkansas Historical Records Survey.

19th Century U.S. Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Covers: 1800-1900.A fully-searchable, facsimile archive of hundreds of U.S. papers, including the Arkansas Gazette (1819-1898), Arkansas Democrat (1846-1899), the Arkansas State Gazette (1836-1865), and the Morning Republican (Little Rock, 1867-1875).

History of Education in Arkansas
Josiah Hazen Shinn, 1900.
MAIN, ARK COLL LA201 .A3 no.26.
The Religious Forces of the United States...1890
Henry King Carroll.
New York: Christian Literature, 1893.
Also available in MAIN BR515 .A5 v1.
Describes various Christian denominations and gives statistics at the state level
Religious Bodies, 1906 and 1916
U.S. Bureau of the Census.
GOVREF - CENSUS BR525 .A3 1906, 1916.
These special census reports give statistics for members of Christian denominations, Jewish, and Buddhist temples.
Some volumes can be found online at Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=iDwuAAAAYAAJ.

A Directory of Churches and Religious Organizations in the State of Arkansas
Call Number: ARK COLL BR555.A8
Publication Date: 1942
Special Collections also holds a manuscript collection of questionnaires returned from each church. Organized by denomination, then...