Barbara Carr, 5th generation descendant of master builder and formerly enslaved Aaron Anderson “Rock” Van Winkle, shares her family’s story of resilience, erasure, and reclamation, closing the season on Northwest Arkansas’s history with truth, memory, and repair.
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Sociologist Jerry Moore helps uncover the life of Aaron Anderson “Rock” Van Winkle — one of the first enslaved people brought to Northwest Arkansas, whose life and labor left a lasting impact on the region’s development.
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Dr. Jared Phillips explores the rise of Southern Evangelicalism in politics, tracing how faith, race, and power intersected through Jimmy Carter’s presidency and shaped belonging in the Ozarks and beyond.
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