University of Arkansas at Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture

Little Rock, Arkansas, 72204

Last updated on April 28, 2025

Grant awarded by

TPS Midwest Region

Region

Southern

Organization Type

College/University

Congressional District(s)

2

Fiscal Year Of First Grant

FY 2018 [10/01/17 - 09/30/18]

Contributing Organization(s)

UA Little Rock Department of History, UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture

Organization description

The Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC) is a unique and reliable repository and resource that explores and promotes Arkansas’s rich history through identifying, collecting, and preserving records that are of enduring value.

Project description

Arkansas Primary Source Sets is a collection of curated primary source sets with resources from the Library of Congress and Arkansas archives. Each set corresponds to Arkansas state teaching standards in social studies and/or disciplinary literacy or language arts. The primary source sets contain big-picture and text-dependent questions; each set includes a PowerPoint for teaching, as well as background resources and additional contextual information.

TPS project focus

Teaching Materials
Workshops

Content focus

American Revolution
Civics
Civil Rights
Civil War
Economics
English Language Arts
Geography
History
Science
Technology
World War II

Audience

Administrators
Classroom teachers
Community members
Curriculum coordinators
Homeschoolers
Librarians/Media specialists
Students
Teacher candidates/Student teachers

Level(s)

3 - 5
6 - 8
9 - 12
Adult learning
K-5
Pre-K - 2nd
Undergraduate

Population focus

African Americans
Asian Americans
English language learners
Hispanic/Latinx
Men and boys
Native American/Indigenous
Rural
Urban
Veterans
Women and girls