Welcome to Restoration Mapping.
Brooke Greenberg’s weekly column about Arkansas history can be found every Sunday in the Democrat-Gazette. Older work can be found here.
November 13, 2022: Don Harington’s Walk Home
January 1, 2023: The Old Way of Seeing
January 8, 2023: Barefoot and Pregnant in Arkansas
January 15, 2023: Crossing the Quapaw Line
January 22, 2023: Bivalves, Fieldstone, Koi Ponds
January 29, 2023: An Excursion to Arkansas Post
February 5, 2023: The Trouble with Wilderness
February 12: 2023: Rural Drag and Blackface Minstrelsy
February 19, 2023: Voices from a Slave Plantation
February 26, 2023: Reuben and Orrin on the Trulock Plantation
March 5, 2023: Women’s Work on a Plantation
March 12, 2023: The Continuing Education of Fufa
March 19, 2023: Julia Railey and the Roanes
March 26, 2023: The Hidden Highbrow of Pocahontas, Arkansas
April 2, 2023: Indigenous Dish
April 9, 2023: Robert Brownlee Arrives in Little Rock
April 16, 2023: Little Rock Enters the Modern World
April 23, 2023: Picking a Fight with Charles Portis
April 30, 2023: Resisting the New and Alien Splendor
May 7, 2023: Awkward Efforts to Attract Immigrants
May 14, 2023: Black Migration to Arkansas
May 21, 2023: The Little Rock Home Farm
May 28, 2023: So long defrauded, so much abused
June 4, 2023: In the presence of the past
June 11, 2023: A city robbed by Urban Renewal
June 18, 2023: When everybody raised everybody
June 25, 2023: Who were the ancient Caddo?
July 2, 2023: Arkansas and the American Revolution
July 9, 2023: On native ground
July 16, 2023: A Loyalist attack, a Quapaw pursuit
July 23, 2023: Fires, facades, and a pop quiz
July 30, 2023: Food from near and afar
August 6, 2023: The Slovak community
August 6, 2023: Silence and Reckoning (Looking back with Milan Kundera)
August 20, 2023: Cool day in August
August 27, 2023: Back to Pine Bluff
September 3, 2023: Jones Cafe a la Russe
September 10, 2023: What’s in the AP African American Studies Curriculum?
September 17, 2023: Serious young men
September 24, 2023: Ways in to Arkansas Jewish History
October 1, 2023: Barreling along with John L. McClellan
October 8, 2023: Displaced by an Army Corps Dam
October 15, 2023: Harry Pearson and the Buffalo River
October 22, 2023: And also much (talking) cattle
October 29, 2023: Little Rock’s Pickens-Bond skyline
November 5, 2023: The outdoors begins at your front door
November 12, 2023: Five miles out on the Cotton Plant Road
November 19, 2023: World War II and economic modernization
November 26, 2023: The Flowering of the Cumberland
December 10, 2023: Some lesser-known works of Vance Randolph
December 17, 2023: Ann Kirkwood, itinerant teacher
December 24, 2023: Christmas on a slave plantation
December 31, 2023: Train trip
January 7, 2024: Prowling the backstreets of Baltimore
January 14, 2024: Coming Home
January 21, 2024: Miss Marcella Speaks
January 28, 2024: Josie, Georgia, and Anne
February 4, 2024: Arkansas Female College
February 11, 2024: AFC 2: enter Lou Krause
February 18, 2024: Ellen Gilchrist
February 25, 2024: A defense against Mencken
March 3, 2024: A fine female lineage
March 17, 2024: From Little Rock to Laredo
March 24, 2024: Waiting on news from nearby
March 31, 2024: David Orr, open-minded Baptist
April 7, 2024: Brooks-Baxter War
April 14, 2024: Familiar Gravitation
April 21, 2024: An Arkansawyer’s decadent moment
April 28, 2024: Hiking on the brink of war
May 5, 2024: Adventures close to home
May 12, 2024: A rough trip to Sulphur Springs
May 19, 2024: Collecting Arkansas Made
May 26, 2024: Horse power
June 9, 2024: Ho! For California
June 16, 2024: Reading through it all
June 23, 2024: The Marquis de Lafayette, our friend
June 30, 2024: Dazed and subverted
July 7, 2024: William Grant Still’s neighborhood
July 14, 2024: June Freeman
July 21, 2024: The Cherokee Bay Schoolhouse Mystery
July 28, 2024: The Subscription School at Antoine
August 4, 2024: A Fayetteville novel
August 11, 2024: Arkansas College of Fayetteville
August 18, 2024: Liberal arts and the sorority girl
August 25, 2024: How to find old Fayetteville
September 1, 2024: Newspapers, violence, and the brothers Gilchrist
September 8, 2024: Little Rock: charming and neglected
September 22, 2024: An Arkansas geologist in China
September 29, 2024: Kung-fu questions
October 6, 2024: The dragon that lay in the hill
October 13, 2024: Nut culture investigations
October 20, 2024: The culture of speed
October 27, 2024: Specters on Main Street
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