News Releases

A site linked to the birth of the Delta blues has been named a Mississippi Landmark.

Match wits with the world’s most famous detective, tease out the cause of a Victorian-era death, use vintage photogra

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 Fr

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

The Mississippi Historical Society held its annual meeting March 2–4 in Gulfport to honor its 2017 award winners and to commemorate the state’s 200th birthday.