Marino Casem, the longtime coach at Alcorn State University and Southern University, once famously stated that “in the South, college football is a religion, and every Sunday is a holy day.” This is certainly true for teams in the Southeastern Conference and especially true for Mississippi. Each fall, hundreds of thousands of loyal fans flock […]

Join us on Facebook Live as we present Ideas On Tap: Rural Education in Mississippi, a virtual panel discussion on October 5 at 5:30pm. This program was inspired by the recent New York Times article "The Tragedy of America's Rural Schools", written by Casey Parks. The article addresses various issues taking place among America's rural […]

On October 6, the MHC will partner with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to host a screening and panel discussion of the documentary film Civil War (or Who Do We Think We Are?) at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson. The film, created and produced by Rachel Boynton, addresses Civil War memory and how the Reconstruction […]

The talk, accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation, will present the case for a new understanding of Mississippi’s past. The speaker will argue that the Eurocentric past account ignored the role of blacks, Indians, women and minorities, providing example biographies to prove the case. Touching on neglected topics such as the history of the ecology, the […]

The 29th Annual Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Festival seeks to build on last year's successful virtual festival with a hybrid in-person socially distanced festival that will stream all the programming on two web platforms.This year's theme is on the exchange of culture, history, and music along the Mississippi River, from the Delta to New Orleans […]

In the early 20th century the cotton boll weevil, a nasty little beetle that had already destroyed millions of pounds of cotton in Texas and Louisiana, stood on the western banks of the Mississippi River poised to invade the richest and most important cotton land in the world: the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta. In the months and […]

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Mississippi University for Women will partner with the Guerrilla Girls, a group of feminist activists that uses political art to fight sexism, racism and corruption in society, for a virtual event at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28, on Zoom. The event is a collaboration between the Ina E. Gordy Honors College, the NEW Leadership Mississippi […]

At noon Nov. 3 in the Paris-Yates Chapel on the University of Mississippi campus, Adam Guettel, Blake McIver and Mary Donnelly Haskell will have a conversation about Elizabeth Spencer’s novella “The Light in the Piazza,” which was made into a musical. In celebration of Mississippi writer Elizabeth Spencer’s one hundredth birthday, the University of Mississippi […]

The public is invited to attend a community meeting on the Natchez US Colored Troops Monument project at 6:00pm on Wednesday, Nov. 10th at the Natchez Convention Center.  The purpose of this meeting is to gather public input on the proposed monument project that will honor the more than 3,000 African American men who served […]

The Historical Society of Gulfport will meet Thursday, November 11, 2021, from 6-7 pm at the Vestry (formerly St. Matthew's Lutheran Church). Brennan Collins, Research Center Coordinator, will discuss his role in establishing the Gulfport Museum of History Research Center and his work with the Mississippi Digital Library. Currently a graduate student in the University […]

The presenter 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 the rich storytelling legacy that riddles the tales of our families and our communities as reflected in the works of many of our best authors: Welty, Wright, Faulkner, […]