Red River Center for Regional History and Culture

The Red River Center for Regional History and Culture at Texas A&M University-Texarkana supports the collection, preservation, exchange, and dissemination of locally and regionally significant materials relating to history and culture in the Red River area, including southeast Oklahoma, northeast Texas, southwest Arkansas, and northwest Louisiana. One of the key missions of the center is to find ways to deploy history – to make it useful and inspirational – to improve our region by bringing to life its cultural heritage through dynamic exhibits, educational programming, internships, and research.

We understand our goals and agendas as extensions of the Texas A&M University system’s Land Grant mandate, in order to promote a shared understanding of our common human experience that informs our collaborative pursuit of solutions to issues that affect our communities.

The Red River Center for Regional History and Culture offers an interdisciplinary humanities perspective to building our region, supporting our economic and social welfare, and improving our quality of life. Through the study of history and culture, the Center will help residents of the Red River region discover their passions, build their self-esteems, and realize that the stereotypes and news stories are wrong, and that we have the strength within us to create change.

For more information on the Center, please contact us at history@tamut.edu

Current Projects

Queer ArkLaTex Regional Oral History Project
Clio App -- Various Regional History Entries
Downtown Bike Tour of African American Texarkana
Research on the Linden, TX and Domino, TX Rosenwald Schools
African American Life in Texarkana -- Oral History Project
Red River History Journal

Fall 2019 Events

September 17,2019: Drs. Andrew McGregor and Craig M. Nakashian, "Constitution Day 2019: Reading and Discussing the Bill of Rights," UC 116
September 26, 2019: "The Wizard of Oz: A Parable for Populism," (UC 217)
October 2, 2019: Dr. Jaime Cantrell, "The South & Sexuality: Queer ArkLaTex Regional Oral History Narrative in the Graduate Classroom," (UC 217)
November 7, 2019: Dr. Andrew McGregor, "150 Years of College Football," (UC 217)
November 13, 2019: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day (Eagle Hall)
December 7: "A Look Back at the 1969 Texas-Arkansas Game," (UC 210)
- Watch the roundtable here- https://www.facebook.com/581184419052031/videos/996193734083889/