The newest star at the Arkansas History Commission is CARAT – Catalog of Arkansas Resources and Archival Treasures. In CARAT, researchers can search holdings through online databases (including Biodex, county records, land records, newspaper holdings, Arkansas Confederate Pensions, Arkansas Confederate Home Records, master list of microfilm, the Small Manuscript Collections, and Shrader and Thomas Harding negatives). Through the online public access catalog (OPAC) patrons can search for books, pamphlets, and over 12,500 historical Arkansas photographs. Ancestry Library Edition, now available at the AHC, provides free service to patrons in our research room. Watch CARAT for the launch of “Documenting Arkansas,” our newest digital project, which will allow digital access to significant Arkansas archival materials including Arkansas’s constitutions, the Walter J. Lemke drawings, submissions to the Arkansas flag contest, as well as selected letters, pamphlets, broadsides and maps. If you have a question or comment, email state.archives@arkansas.gov.