The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture (EOA) is a project of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies at the Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is the only state encyclopedia in the country to be produced by a library system. The EOA strives to offer a definitive, comprehensive, and accurate record of America’s twenty-fifth state.
Click any of the listings below to read a description provided by the Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
The Butler Center subscribes to a wide variety of online databases that provide easy access to millions of military records and other resources. Below is a sampling of some of the available databases. To access the full range of our resources, we invite you to visit our research room in the Arkansas Studies Institute building.
British Army World War I Pension Records, 1914-1920
British Army World War I Service Records, 1914-1920
Canada, Selected Service Records of Soldiers, 1914-1918
Canada, Soldiers of the First World War, 1914-1918
Canada, War Graves Registers (Circumstances of Casualty), 1914-1948
Germany, Navy Casualty Lists, 1914-1917 (in German)
Germany, World War I Casualty Lists, 1914-1917 (in German)
Ireland, Casualties of World War I, 1914-1918
New Zealand Army World War I Casualty Lists, 1914-1919
New Zealand Army World War I Nominal Rolls, 1914-1918
Stars and Stripes Newspaper, World War I Edition, 1918-1919
UK, Memorial Books World War I and World War II, 1914-1945
UK, Royal Navy and Royal Marine War Graves Roll, 1914-1919
UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919
U.S., World War I Jewish Servicemen Questionnaires, 1918-1921
U.S., American Red Cross Nurse Files, 1916-1959
U.S., Naval Deaths, World War I
U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
U.S., World War I Mothers' Pilgrimage, 1930
The Butler Center offers a large collection of materials related to World War I, including letters, photographs, microfilm of enlistment and discharge records, and other primary materials related to Arkansans who served in the Great War. The research room also houses a large number of secondary sources and subscribes to a wide variety of online databases that provide easy access to millions of military records and other resources.
Highlights of the collections include letters from a WWI Marine as well as correspondence from a soldier who served in a balloon company; many materials related to Camp Pike (now Camp Joseph T. Robinson); and materials related to Eberts Training Field, which was located in Lonoke County.
The Butler Center provides online access to selected portions of our collections. These featured collections represent a dynamic sampling of Arkansas history. Included are audio/video clips, digital images of photographs, letters, and other documents as well as educational resources such as lesson plans.
Researchers may also view searchable inventories of our manuscript collection holdings. To access the full range of our resources, we invite you to visit our research room in the Arkansas Studies Institute building.
