A living history program about the early pioneer settlers in Mississippi. Discussion centers around how they dressed, built their homes, produced and cooked their food, the use of flintlock rifles for hunting and protection of their homesteads, building fire using flint-and-steel, grinding corn in hollow stumps, children’s homemade toys and music on the mountain dulcimer. […]

Join the Mississippi Humanities Council, the Women's Foundation of Mississippi, and Rethink Mississippi on April 24 at Hal and Mal's for the fourth and final installment of our spring series "Emerging Mississippi." On April 24, we'll be discussing media and news coverage in Mississippi in the 21st century. We'll discuss how news is disseminated, how people choose to receive their news, […]

A representative from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, USCIS, will discuss the steps to naturalization and answer questions about the process. UM Libraries’ Citizenship Resource Corner will be highlighted as a source for local information.

On April 26, the Mississippi Humanities Council and the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies at the University of Mississippi will host "Ideas on Tap: What Do We Commemorate & Why?" at Proud Larry's in Oxford. The program will feature Dr. Charles Ross, Director of African American Studies & Professor of History at the […]

The creators of the civil rights play, “Beautiful Agitators,” are presenting a staged reading at Jobe Hall Auditorium, Delta State University, this coming Sunday, April 29, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. The play is about Ms. Vera Mae Pigee of Clarksdale who was an instrumental figure in the fight for racial equality in Mississippi.

Join the Mississippi Humanities Council on May 22 at Hal and Mal's for a conversation on potholes, bridge closures, and, ultimately, the role of government in our society. We'll use the recent infrastructure crisis to examine what government should be doing for society, what its responsibilities are (or are not), and how this shapes policy and perception. Kenneth Townsend (Millsaps College) […]

This presentation will explore the crucial Battle of Brice’s Crossroads during the Civil War and the role of the controversial Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Speakers Expertise: Edwina H. Carpenter serves as director of the Brice's Crossroads National Battlefield and Interpretive Center in Baldwyn, MS. Through research and artifact conservation, exhibit design, tours and events, […]

This presenter shares the experiences told to him by 53 living veterans of WWII and recorded on 27 DVD tapes covering 34 hours of interviews. The veterans’ experiences provide a detailed look into how young men and women and families gave their lives to their country so that we might have the freedoms we sometimes […]

The Pascagoula River Audubon Center will host Water/Ways, a traveling exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution, from May 31 through July 7. The exhibit, which will be free and open to the public, will include a local quilt exhibition, "A River in Stitches" featuring quilts from around the state that focus on water themes. Visit the […]

The presenter describes the Battle of Shiloh and the events that led to the creation of this site as a historic spot of land. He also addresses the question of what it means to be “Southern”, the importance of tradition, the closeness to the soil of our ancestors that other secions of the country don’t […]

Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of women boldly defied Victorian society norms when they disguised themselves as men, shouldered muskets and joined the firing line in the American Civil War. As soldiers, they participated in every major engagement from the beginning to the end of the war. Their wartime experiences and sacrifices mirrored those of their male […]

This presentation will give the listener a glimpse of the Mande Culture of West Africa. In the tradition of the Mande, the history and culture is orally preserved in the minds and through the music of the Djeli (oral librarian/mandenka hereditary professional musicians). The establishment of the Mali Empire can be recalled and retold in […]