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Arkansas History Commission Interns for Summer 2009

7/24/2009: The Arkansas History Commission has three interns working at its facilities this summer.
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Preserve Arkansas Heritage Project Grant awarded to Arkansas History Commission

4/2/2009: On February 19, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded Connecting to Collections: Statewide Planning Grants to 23 states, including Arkansas, which will be used to create statewide conservation plans for collections held in libraries, museums, and archives.
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Arkansas History Commission Gives Historic Arkansas to Libraries in State

3/15/2009: The Arkansas History Commission has given almost 1000 copies of Historic Arkansas, by John L. Ferguson and J. H. Atkinson, to libraries in the state.
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Arkansas History Commission Materials Digitized by The Papers of Abraham Lincoln

2/12/2008: The Arkansas History Commission recently welcomed representatives of The Papers of Abraham Lincoln, a long-term project dedicated to identifying, imaging, and publishing, both comprehensively in electronic form and selectively in printed volumes, all documents written by or to Abraham Lincoln during his lifetime (1809-1865).
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Arkansas Confederate Pension Records Index Available on AHC Website

1/2/2008: The Arkansas History Commission has added a new Arkansas Confederate Pension Records index to its website. The collection is composed of approximately 22,000 records collected by the State Board of Pensions between 1891 and 1939.
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Arkansas History Commission to develop statewide disaster preparedness training

10/23/2007: State and local government agencies throughout Arkansas will be better prepared for emergencies thanks to $2.6 million recently awarded to the national Council of State Archivists (CoSA) by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The funding for the national initiative will enable the Arkansas History Commission (the State Archives) to provide critical training and services to state and local government agencies throughout Arkansas.
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The Arkansas History Commission Announces the Archie Moore, Jr. Materials

9/5/2007: The Arkansas History Commission announces the recent addition of the Archie Moore, Jr., Materials on microfilm.
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Arkansas History Commission Obtains Rare Methodist Newspaper

2/12/2007: The Arkansas History Commission announces the recent microfilming of one of the South's rarest antebellum Methodist newspapers, the Memphis, Arkansas, and Ouachita Christian Advocate.
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Arkansas History Commission Receives Copy of Rare Manuscript

2/1/2007: The Arkansas History Commission in Little Rock announces the acquisition of what is thought to be the last copy of an original handwritten manuscript telling the story of Faulkner County's earliest settlers, the Benedicts and the Standlees.
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African American School Yearbooks at the Arkansas History Commission

2/21/2006: The Arkansas History Commission has scattered issues of African American school yearbooks.
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