Arkansas Women's History Institute

In 2000, the AWHI in conjunction with the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Public History Program sponsored "A Gathering of Women."  This multi-media project, the most comprehensive project on Arkansas women's history, includes the traveling exhibit, supplementary web site, and hard copy bibliography. The project captured the diversity of Arkansas women by examining the history of all women, not specifically the "exceptional" women.

By distributing questionnaires across the state and using the responses to tell the story, the project team was able to incorporate the history of ALL women. Photographs and text captured the many roles women have played in Arkansas’ history. The exhibit, sponsored in part by grants from the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Arkansas Natural and Cultural Resources Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities, is available through the Humanities Council’s resource center.  Other project sponsors include the Arkansas Community Foundation, Historic Arkansas Museum Foundation board, Mary Wohlleb, and many individual donors.

Click here to access the official website. It includes photographs, biographies, an overview of the project, and a comprehensive bibliography of published works on Arkansas women’s history.

Since it's debut, the exhibit has traveled Arkansas extensively, including Hot Springs, Texarkana, Searcy, Springdale, and sites in Little Rock.