History

Five 7' high free-standing panels spanning 3' x 8'. One case. Must be picked up. 1980

His Arkansas Land portrays the development of Arkansas through the people whose livelihood depended on the land. Modern agriculture has drowned the farmer in its wake; yet, much of what we all uphold as the traditional values of self-reliance, hard work, family centeredness and human honesty seems tied to the fate of the small farm family. With photographs and commentary from the film study, the exhibit emphasizes these values and makes us wonder whether the small farm is merely a souvenir from long ago or a way of life we can ill afford to discard.

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HISTORY
His Arkansas Land video

A Place Called Rohwer

Twelve framed photographs, 11" X 14", can be hung or exhibited on easels. Must be picked up. 1978

Few people realize that during World War II, Rohwer and Jerome, Arkansas were sites for two Japanese-American incarceration camps. These twelve framed photos from the National Archives are testimony to a sad era in our history when Americans were sent to interment camps across the United State. Views of refugees with only a handful of belongings remind us that the usurpation of human rights was not confined to Europe during the war.

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Rohwer videos and Jerome/Rohwer slides

Voyages to Freedom: 500 Years of Jewish Life in Latin America and the Caribbean

Sixteen posters mounted on four cardboard kiosks. Each kiosk in 2’ square and 5’ tall. One shipping case. 1992

Voyages to Freedom underscores the dramatic participation of Jews in the age of discovery, and throughout the development of Latin America and the Caribbean. It explores four main themes of the Jewish experience: Latin American migration; family and communal life; economic and cultural development; and relations between Jews and their neighbors. Created by the Anti-Defamation League.

Seeds of Change

Thirty-two poster mounted on eight cardboard kiosks. Each kiosk is 3’ square and 6’ tall. Two shipping cases. 1992, Companion volume available. See next entry.

The collision of two worlds that came in the wake of Columbus’s voyages to the New World is the focus of the exhibit Seeds of Change. This exhibit looks at the Columbian encounter from the point of view of biological exchanges and their social and cultural effects. It looks at the process of change, both planned and inadvertent, by tracing five biological transfers-sugar, maize, disease, the horse, and the potato-and their effects on both the Old and New Worlds. The exhibit concludes with the continuing legacy of the encounter-the environmental consequences of the 500 year exchange and the choices we face as we approach the next century.

Seeds of Change

Companion volume to the exhibit. 1992

A richly illustrated collection of scholarly essays published in conjunction with the Seeds of Change exhibition. As this book makes clear, the processes of biological exchange, including human genes as well as food and diseases, had more to do with making the world as we live in it today than did any of the famous deeds records by chroniclers. The exception is the one deed that set the exchange in motion: Columbus’s arrival in the Bahamas in the autumn of 1492.