This is one of many patriotic postcards published in the first decade of the 1900s ... of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's "Postcard Past" feature and author of 20 Arkansas history books.

The mind once enlightened can never again become dark,” wrote Thomas Paine generations ago. Progress in education has been an important feature of the development of the United States as it steadily ...

A little city called Hope was founded in Southern Arkansas 150 years ago ... event that will focus on Hope in the early 1900s ...

And all that is left of her solider boy true, are his sword and his cap and the red, white and blue.” This is one of many patriotic postcards published in the first decade of the 1900s.