Meridian History Walk
Meridian, MSFrom the Civil War burning of Meridian to a tornado wiping out the city’s business district 1906, the history of the Queen City will come alive for area residents Saturday […]
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From the Civil War burning of Meridian to a tornado wiping out the city’s business district 1906, the history of the Queen City will come alive for area residents Saturday […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
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, […]
Mississippi State University will host this conference intended to bring together the artist who created Nashville Ballet's "Lucy Negro Redux" with both senior and junior scholars in academic fields important […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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, […]
