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Match wits with the world’s most famous detective, tease out the cause of a Victorian-era death, use vintage photographs and po
A doctoral student from Cornell University has been named the 2017 Medgar and Myrlie Evers Research Scholar. Bobby J.
Sophia K. Leonard, a doctoral student at Emory University in Atlanta, has been named the 2017 Eudora Welty Fellow.
The state’s founding constitution and the first U.S. flag to include Mississippi will be on display at the William F. Winter Archives and History Building through the summer. The artifacts have toured the state as part of the celebration of Mississippi’s bicentennial.
Historic Jefferson College will host the tenth annual Great Big Yam Potatoes Old-Time Music Gathering and Fiddle Contest on Friday, May
The traveling exhibit Magna Carta: Enduring Legacy 1215-2015 will be at the Old Capitol Museum through Sunday, April 30.
Thieves have vandalized the nearly two-hundred-year-old Shaifer House in Claiborne County, making off with four wood
The Mississippi Department of Archives and History is accepting applications for the 2017 Medgar and Myrlie Evers Research Schola