Visitors flock to Little Rock to check out Arkansas’ rich history, and it just became more available.

Academics and genealogists will enjoy the newly-opened Arkansas Studies Institute, which houses more than two and a half miles of paper, including the administrative papers of Govs. Carl Bailey, Winthrop Rockefeller, Dale Bumpers, Frank White, Jim Guy Tucker and Bill Clinton, just down the street from where Clinton’s presidential papers are kept.

There are also editorial cartoons, photographs of ordinary Arkansans, paintings by natives, early maps and one of the best Civil War collections in the state. The institute also includes a 6,000-square-foot art gallery.

Other information covers chicken farming, the rise of Wal-Mart and various artifacts.