Oral History Workshop

Tell Your Story Stories guide our work and are the threads that bring communities together and connect people to the things they're passionate about. We're proud to partner with the […]

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Grants Workshop

Register today! Join representatives from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for Humanities virtually to learn more about funding opportunities through grants other resources. Questions or […]

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Public Humanities Awards

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

The Mississippi Humanities Council announced the winners of its 2023 Public Humanities Awards recognizing outstanding work in preserving and sharing Mississippi’s unique history and culture. The awards ceremony will be […]

Banned Book Festival

Millsaps College 1701 N. State Street, Jackson, Mississippi

Millsaps College will host its very first Banned Books Festival on March 25, 2023. Increasingly, multitudes of books have been banned from public school libraries for their subject matter—for example, […]

The Twenty-Ninth Oxford Conference for the Book

The Overby Center 555 Grove Loop, University, MS, United States

Founded by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and Square Books, the Oxford Conference  for the Book brings together fiction and nonfiction writers, journalists, artists, poets, publishers, teachers, […]

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Ideas on Tap – The Women who Run our State

Cultivation Food Hall 1200 Eastover Drive #125, Jackson, MS, United States

According to the 2016 Clarion Ledger article, “The Women who Run our State”, “Of 172 legislative seats at the state Capitol, only 25 are filled by women.” Now in 2023, […]

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Shell-Carving with Alex Alvarez

USM Liberal Arts Building 114 N. 31st Ave., Hattiesburg, MS

Medicine Wheel Garden Event at USM Hattiesburg Campus The Center of American Indian Research and Studies (CAIRS) at The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) is partnering with the Mississippi Humanities […]

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Bootjack and Red Historical Marker

Duck Hill, MS 312 Main Street, Duck Hill, MS, United States

A historical marker commemorating the tragic lynching and torture deaths of Robert “Bootjack” McDaniels and Roosevelt “Red” Townes will be unveiled in Duck Hill, Mississippi on April 13, 2023. The […]

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What We Can Learn From… Lecture Series

Mississippi College presents a series of talks entitled, “What We Can Learn From _____.” This talk features Dr. Christopher Snyder presenting "Never Laugh at Dragons," What We Can Learn from J.R.R. […]

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Behind the Big House Program & Tour ( 2023)

Preserve Marshall County & Holly Springs, Inc. 184 S Memphis St, Holly Springs, MS, United States

Behind the Big House is one of few historic site tours developed with the specific goal of interpreting slavery. The program began with several private homeowners in Holly Springs, Mississippi, […]

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ICC 2023 Humanities Showcase

Itawamba Community College 602 W Hill Street, Fulton, MS

On Monday, April 24th, ICC Fulton campus library will have a Humanities Showcase from 2 to 4. It is the final event in our year-long series "Reflecting Mississippi: Finding Yourself […]

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