Events

Join us for History Happy Hour on Thursday, April 16, from 5 to 7 p.m. with live music by Groove Factor, food from Primos Cafe, and a cash bar at the Two Mississippi Museums. This free event will feature components from the 2020 temporary exhibit Mississippi Distilled: Prohibition, Piety, and Politics

Interested in expanding your knowledge on African American genealogy? Joyce Dixon-Lawson will lead a genealogy workshop at 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 18, at the William F. Winter Archives and History Building. This free event will discuss hands-on strategies for tracing the family lines of formerly enslaved individuals through probate records, wills, deeds, and census records.

Join us for the Mississippi Made gallery talk at 11 a.m. on Thursday, April 9, on the Mezzanine at the Two Mississippi Museums. In connection with America250, this free event will tell the story of how some of Mississippi’s greatest artists, creators, and storytellers shaped America.

A panel from the Mississippi Press Association will discuss the impact of community journalism across Mississippi over the past 160 years at noon on Wednesday, April 22, as part of the History Is Lunch series. Panelists include Anita Lee, Natalie Perkins, Jamie Patterson, and moderator Charles Overby.

At noon on Wednesday, April 15, Robert Colby, assistant professor of history at the University of Mississippi, will discuss the intersections of slavery, capitalism, the Civil War, and emancipation as part of the History Is Lunch series. Colby’s book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South, explores the place of the peculiar institution in the Confederate mind

Join us at noon on Wednesday, April 8, as Alcorn State University English professor J. Janice Coleman highlights the Hansberry family’s ties to Alcorn A&M College—the oldest public institution of higher learning for African Americans in Mississippi. Though best known because Lorraine Hansberry wrote A Raisin in the Sun, the first Broadway play by an African American woman

A panel will discuss the political life and legacy of longtime U.S. Senator Thad Cochran at noon on Wednesday, March 18, as part of the History Is Lunch series. Panelists include Governor Haley Barbour; Mark Keenum, president of Mississippi State University; Judge Leslie Southwick of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; Brad White, executive director of the Mississippi Department of Transportation; and Nehemiah Flowers, former senior staff member for Senator Cochran.

Mondays at noon, the Eudora Welty House & Garden will host live discussions of Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald, edited and introduced by Suzanne Marrs and Tom Nolan, as part of the Welty at Home Virtual Book Club program.

Join us for a free event featuring a screening of Natchez at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 12, in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson. This 86-minute documentary journeys through an antebellum tourist destination at a crossroads as it grapples with a deeply troubled history.

Join us on Thursday, March 26, at 11 a.m. at the Two Mississippi Museums to embark on a behind-the-scenes tour of the MDAH Historic Objects Collection, led by Nan Prince, MDAH director of collections, and Hong Li, MDAH collections manager.