May Program

NEWSPAPERS IN A NUTSHELL – MAY 23 PROGRAM

 

Michael Bruce Dougan, Professor of History at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, will take a lighthearted look at the history of our area's newspapers when the White County Historical Society meets Monday, May 23, at Harding Place in Searcy. Dougan is a self-proclaimed "extreme eccentric who talks incessantly on tomatoes and beans, his softball career, opera singers, drainage ditches and other occult topics." He writes Arkansas history for fun and profit from his home, the historic J.V. Bell House in Jonesboro. He was born at Neosho, Missouri, and after receiving his bachelor's degree from Southwest Missouri State College in Springfield, he studied with the famous Civil War historian Bell I. Wiley at Emory University, earning his doctorate in 1970. He then joined the staff at Arkansas State University. His books include Confederate Arkansas; The People and Policies of a Frontier State in Wartime (1976), Arkansas Odyssey: The Saga of Arkansas from Prehistoric Times to Present (1994) and Community Diaries: Arkansas Newspapering, 1819-2002 (2003). His articles began with "The Little Rock Press Goes to War," Arkansas Historical Quarterly (1969) and have consisted of five additional entries. He is a past president of the Arkansas Historical Association. The meeting will start at 7 p.m. and is open to the public. Bring a friend and join us!