Announcing the premiere of "We Make," a film (with Ethan Payne) about Siggers High School, an all-Black school that served communities in Shannon, MS from roughly 1940-1970. It was originally […]

Chigozie Obioma, a Nigerian writer and the Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia whose first two novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize, will spend a […]

Lecture by speaker Tracy Carr: A monkey named Jocko who lived at the Great Southern Hotel in Gulfport, the biggest cabbage in Coahoma County, and lots and lots of crime: […]

James Giesen presents "No One Writes Songs about Polyester: Re-making Cotton’s Image in the Late Twentieth Century." Mississippi has long reigned as the capital of cotton country, but by the […]

Thursday, April 10 7:30-8:30 Reading/Q&A in Old Main 1030 8:30 – 9pm Book Signing Chigozie Obioma, a Nigerian writer and the Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor at the University of […]

Join us for a special edition of Sunday Screening of "Eudora" during the Stranger the Fiction Film Festival hosted by the Mississippi Film Society. Please note the showing is at […]

Known as the sister of famous composer Felix Mendelssohn, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel composed over 450 works despite being discouraged by family members and 19th-century society. Hear stories of her life […]

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 […]

Gulf Coast Vietnamese Narratives: Honoring a Legacy at the Maritime and Seafood Industry Museum The Gulf Coast Vietnamese Narratives project seeks to establish the first permanent Vietnamese exhibit at the […]

Dr. Rebecca Tuuri’s presentation examines the first fifty years of the women’s suffrage in Mississippi, with a focus on the work of the Mississippi League of Women Voters (LWV) from […]