News Releases

The Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) is the recipient of two 2025 Southeastern Museums Conference (SEMC) Awards.

The 2025 Veterans Day Ceremony will take place at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 7, on the Entergy Plaza in front of the Two Mississippi Museums.

Sixty students from across Mississippi gathered Tuesday, October 14, at the Old Capitol Museum for the state’s first Smithsonian National Youth Summit, an event exploring how education and history influence civic life.

The Mississippi Department of Archives and History and Mississippi State University have signed an agreement that establishes a framework to create a regional hub for education, research, and workforce development at Historic Jefferson College near Natchez.

The family of Fannie Lou Hamer has donated the civil rights leader’s Presidential Medal of Freedom to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History to ensure her legacy of activism is shared with future generations.

Roland Weeks, longtime publisher of Gulf Coast newspapers The Daily Herald and the Sun Herald and a former member of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Board of Trustees, died October 4, aged 89.

The Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) is accepting applications for four 2026 fellowships: the Eudora Welty Research Fellowship, the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Research Fellowship, the Religion in Mississippi History Research Fellowship, and the Robert “Bob” Moses Civil Rights Research Fellowship.

America250 Mississippi is excited to announce the October 2025 dates for the national America250 initiative, Our American Story — a national oral and visual storytelling project designed to gather and preserve the voices that shape our nation.

The board of trustees of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History will convene next month in Jackson, hosting a public reception at the Old Capitol Museum ahead of its regular board meeting.