J.N. Heiskell Collection at Arkansas Studies Institute

J.N. Heiskell was the owner, and editor of the Arkansas Gazette almost 70 years, and he was a collector of all things Arkansas - from maps, to books, to photos and other objects - all of which created a picture of the state’s culture and history.

C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their “2012 LCV Cities Tour” in Little Rock, Arkansas, on March 5-8 to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Comcast local cable affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on BookTV on C-SPAN2. close