Holly Springs native Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell (1849-1883) left her Mississippi Home in 1873 to pursue a literary career in the Northeast. She became "Sherwood Bonner," a writer whose witty stories shed light on the dynamics of region, race, and gender in both the reconstruction South and post-Civil War America. Bonner enjoyed brief notoriety during […]

The Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, Inc., (VMCRM) in conjunction with Tougaloo College will host a three-day conference designed to inspire and empower today’s youth through social activism, education and organizing. The eight (12th) annual conference is scheduled to be held March 29-April 2, 2017 on the campus of Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, MS. […]

The 2017 Oxford Conference for the Book will be held on March 29-31, 2017. The annual event celebrates books, reading, and writing while also examining the practical concerns on which the literary arts and the humanities depend, including the process of finding publication, writing methods, and the state of publishing. The conference convenes fiction and […]

On December 10, 1817, Mississippi became the nation's twentieth state. Starting in 2016 a new traveling exhibit featuring Mississippi's first constitution and the first U.S. flag to include a star for the new state will tour the state to celebrate the approaching bicentennial. The project will partner with nine local institutions across the state to […]

Please join The Freedom50 Research Group as they present critical perspectives of the Clyde Kennard case in relation to racial progress at the University of Southern Mississippi by means of a three-part lecture series in the spring of 2017. This lecture series is designed to examine the (in)visible signs of cultural change that have occurred […]

Award-winning journalist Alysia Burton Steele’s Delta Jewels: In Search of My Grandmother’s Wisdom is a visual and lyrical tribute to African American church mothers from the Mississippi Delta. This groundbreaking collection of oral histories and photographs tells nationally and internationally significant stories rooted in the Mississippi Delta, a distinctive region called “The Cradle of American […]

Please join The Freedom50 Research Group as they present critical perspectives of the Clyde Kennard case in relation to racial progress at the University of Southern Mississippi by means of a three-part lecture series in the spring of 2017. This lecture series is designed to examine the (in)visible signs of cultural change that have occurred […]

The Delta State Community is hosting the 2017 Sammy I. Cranford Memorial History Lecture. Dr. Calvin White, Jr., Associated Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Arkansas, will deliver a lecture entitled, "Standing at the Vanguard: Oscar Staton De Priest, A Black Congressmen Amongst White Segregationists." This lecture will take […]

Many Mississippians today have had scant exposure to genuine philosophical inquiry and debate and know little about philosophy's long, distinguished history. Even those who may have taken a philosophy course in college likely studies only selected topics and have a limited sense of the wide range of issues philosophers discuss. As a result, many people […]

Mississippi has been home to numerous Indian tribes including Choctaws, Chickasaws, Natchez, Creeks, Houmas and others. Mississippi History begins with these tribes. Powwows are events where Native Americans and others gather, celebrate our cultures and share our cultures with Natives and non Natives. With Native Americans only 2% of the U.S. population, to make this […]

A dramatic monologue drawn from the nonfiction prose of Flannery O’Connor. The one-woman show incorporates O’Connor’s opinions on a variety of subjects, including writing, other writers, religion, and peacocks. Beverly Fatherree is an English Instructor at Hinds Community College. She has performed as O'Connor at the Flannery O'Connor Birthplace Trust and in a variety of […]

School textbooks rarely mention much about the Great War — World War I. Although the United States only participated in the final two yeas of the conflict, it changed the world. Drawing on letters published in Mississippi newspapers from across the state, this presentation tells the story of Mississippians who participated in the Great War. […]