Butler Center receives Award of Merit

At the recent Arkansas Historical Association annual meeting, the Butler Center was presented with an Award of Merit for our Civil War website, “A Nation Divided: Arkansas in the Civil War.” The award is an honor reserved for groundbreaking history projects with vast importance to Arkansas history.

Butler Center Lead Archivist Brian Robertson with AHA President Tim Nutt

The Butler Center is a premier destination for Civil War research in Arkansas. Within the Butler Center’s vast Civil War holdings, researchers will find hundreds of letters, diaries, photographs, and other primary materials related to Arkansas’s involvement in the war. In addition, the Butler Center also holds an extensive collection of secondary sources and subscribes to a number of online databases, which provide easily accessible and up-to-date information.