Alcorn State University's Phi Alpha Theta & History Club will host the viewing of the documentary The Parchman Ordeal: The Untold Story, on November 6 at 1pm. Immediately following the documentary […]
Continuing the work of the University of Mississippi's Rethinking Mass Incarceration in the South conference in 2014 ad 2016 and Harvard's Beyond the Gates conference in 2018, […]
On December 10, join the Mississippi Humanities Council and the Women's Foundation of Mississippi at Hal and Mal's in Jackson for the third in a three-part series on American identity. […]
The Local History and Genealogy Department of Biloxi Public Library recently received a donation of over 36,000 negatives of weddings, events, families, land aerials, and historic buildings by Chauncey Hinman. […]
Through its "Bridging Cultures" Program, the International Museum of Muslin Cultures utilizes its two signature exhibitions: "Muslims with Christians and Jews: An Exhibition of Covenants and Coexistence," and "The Legacy […]
Through its "Bridging Cultures" Program, the International Museum of Muslin Cultures utilizes its two signature exhibitions: "Muslims with Christians and Jews: An Exhibition of Covenants and Coexistence," and "The Legacy […]
In the spring of 1970, college and university students across the country protested against the Vietnam War, racism, gender oppression, and a host of other issues, at times leading to […]
After the Civil War, African Americans in the South, newly freed, expressed a tangible optimism that led to the reuniting of families, the development of social institutions like the black […]
Black women in Mississippi actively participated in the suffrage movement after the Civil War. They fought actively for women’s suffrage even as they supported Black men and passage of the […]
Humanities Teacher Awardee for Alcorn State University, Earnestine Lee, will present her public lecture: "Faced with woefully inadequate societal evidence of increasing global warming, especially in terms of reducing carbon […]
Humanities Teacher Awardee for Hinds Community College, Laura Hammons, will present her public lecture. Details TBA.
This presentation examines how slaves and colonists weathered the economic and political upheavals that rocked the Lower Mississippi Valley in the years between the American Revolution and the Civil War. […]
