Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, commonly abbreviated locally as the Dem-Gaz or Demgaz, is a daily newspaper published in Little Rock, Arkansas.

By virtue of one of its predecessors, the Arkansas Gazette (founded in 1819), it claims to be the oldest continuously published newspaper west of the Mississippi River; however, due to interruptions in 1850 and during the Civil War, and especially how the Gazette was merged into the Arkansas Democrat in 1991, that claim is disputable.

Itself, the Arkansas Democrat came into being in 1878 when In 1878 J.N. Smithee bought a newspaper and changed its name to the Arkansas Democrat,

Critics of the Democrat-Gazette continue to argue that the paper is more conservative than its Little Rock subscriber base. The Democrat-Gazette points out that its op-ed pages are open to many different viewpoints and that it accurately reflects its statewide constituency.

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In 1957 the Gazette took a strong editorial stance against Governor Orval Faubus when he tried to prevent the Little Rock Nine from desegregating Little Rock Central High School in 1957. In 1958 the Gazette was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its stand, and executive editor Harry Ashmore won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing. Despite its honors the circulation of the Gazette dropped during the crisis due to boycotts, which ended when Ashmore left the paper.

The Democrat took a more segregationist editorial stand, but its photographer Will Counts took several important pictures of the crisis, including a famous picture of Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Nine, being shouted at by an angry white girl, later identified as Hazel Massery; the Associated Press declared it to be one of the top 100 photos of the 20th century. Counts also helped arrange the public reconciliation of Eckford and Massery in 1997.

In more recent times, the current Democrat-Gazette editorial cartoonist, John Deering, and his wife Cathy created a bronze sculpture of the Nine, entitled Testament, on the grounds of the Arkansas State Capitol.

The Historic Arkansas Museum, affectionately known as the HAM, is a state history museum in downtown Little Rock in the U.S. state of Arkansas.

The museum maintains gallery space and a number of historic buildings original to the site, as well as log structures transported from around the state. It was previously know as the Arkansas Territorial Restoration, but the name was changed when new exhibit space and renovations were completed in the early 2000s.

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