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NASHVILLE, TN—June 2025—The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) proudly announces that Katie Blount, director of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH), is the recipient of an Individual Lifetime Achievement Award for her work to preserve the stories of Mis

The Mississippi Historical Society (MHS) is pleased to announce a call for individual papers for a special 2026 issue of the

The Mississippi Department of Archives and History has completed a preservation and stabilization project at Windsor Ruins that includes a walking trail and new signs that tell the stories of the plantation owners and the people who were enslaved there.

The Two Mississippi Museums – the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum – will participate in Blue Star Museums, a program offering free admission to currently serving military personnel and their families, from Armed Forces Day on May 17 to Labor Day, Sept. 1.

Bradley Smith, a doctoral student at the University of Alabama, has been named the 2025 Religion in Mississippi History Research Fellow. Smith will use archival holdings at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) to research the role of religion in Mississippi from the state's secession to the surrender of Vicksburg.

Theron Wilkerson, a doctoral student at Auburn University, has been named the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Research Fellow for 2025. Wilkerson will conduct research this summer in the Medgar Wiley and Myrlie Beasley Evers Papers housed at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History in Jackson.

A group of Mississippi students will head to the National History Day Contest in College Park, Maryland, in June after winning at the state level at an event hosted by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.

Kyle Alvey, a doctoral student at Purdue University, has been named the 2025 Eudora Welty Research Fellow. Alvey will use archival holdings in the Eudora Welty Collection housed at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History to research the life and work of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. to research the life and work of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

The Foundation for Mississippi History has been awarded a $1 million grant from the Community Foundation for Mississippi’s John and Lucy Shackelford Fund to support construction of Margaret Ann Crigler Park in downtown Jackson.