Windsor Ruins presented by Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries

Mississippi Cultural Crossroads building 507 Market St, Port Gibson, MS, United States

Please join us for our upcoming educational programs on Windsor Ruins presented by Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries, a historian at Ohio State University. The first, “The Untold Stories of Enslavement […]

Free

History Is Lunch: “(Mis)Remembering the Past: From Slavery to Civil Rights”

TWO MISSISSIPPI MUSEUMS 222 NORTH STREET , JACKSON, MS, United States

The Mississippi Department of Archives and History’s (MDAH) History Is Lunch (HIL) lecture series has delved into Mississippi’s history, providing a platform for dynamic presentations by esteemed scholars, experts, authors, […]

Free

Speakers Bureau: “Mississippi Telling”

Cambridge Methodist Church 212 Ross Ave, Oxford, MS, United States

The presenter, Dr. Rebecca Jernigan, provides an overview of the storytelling Renaissance in America with emphasis upon the oral tradition in Mississippi. The literary tradition of Mississippi owes much to […]

Free

Blues on 5th Street

Laurel Jones County Black History Museum and Arts 820 W 5th St, Laurel, United States

Let’s Talk About The Blues! Pine Belt Blues That Is! While honoring Mr. T-Bone Pruitt. Pinebelt Blues is shaping up to be a genre of blues coming straight from the […]

Free

Speaker Series: Matthew Skic

Historic Natchez Foundation 108 S. Commerce St., Natchez, MS, United States

The 2024-2025 season is an annual program of the Natchez Historical Society, consisting of 8 regular monthly presentations by expert speakers on humanities topics pertinent to the history of the […]

Free

HOMEGROWN: A WRITERS’ EXCHANGE: 2025

University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Park Campus 730 E Beach Blvd, Long Beacj, MS, United States

HOMEGROWN is a full-day literary arts event, -- free and open to the public -- that presents acclaimed southern authors in moderated panel discussions that cut across multiple current, timely, […]

Free

Surviving Southampton: A Story in Three Grandmothers

Aven Hall 200 Capitol Street, Clinton, MS

Dr. Vanessa Holden from the University of Kentucky will speak at Mississippi College as part of MC's continued effort to bring lived and scholarly expertise of the African American experience […]

Free

Speaker Series: Paula C. Johnson

Historic Natchez Foundation 108 S. Commerce St., Natchez, MS, United States

The 2024-2025 season is an annual program of the Natchez Historical Society, consisting of 8 regular monthly presentations by expert speakers on humanities topics pertinent to the history of the […]

Free

Speaker Series: Judy Wiggins

Historic Natchez Foundation 108 S. Commerce St., Natchez, MS, United States

The 2024-2025 season is an annual program of the Natchez Historical Society, consisting of 8 regular monthly presentations by expert speakers on humanities topics pertinent to the history of the […]

Free

Speaker Series: Smokye Joe Frank

Historic Natchez Foundation 108 S. Commerce St., Natchez, MS, United States

The 2024-2025 season is an annual program of the Natchez Historical Society, consisting of 8 regular monthly presentations by expert speakers on humanities topics pertinent to the history of the […]

Free

The Thirty-First Oxford Conference for the Book

University of Mississippi

The Oxford Conference for the Book is a three-day gathering inaugurated in 1993 and held annually, except in 1997 and 2020. The event takes place in Oxford and on the […]