Events

At noon on Wednesday, October 2, Fergus Bordewich will present "Grant, the KKK, and the War for Reconstruction in Mississippi" as part of the History Is Lunch series. The program will take place in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum building and stream live on the MDAH Facebook page and YouTube channel. Book sales and signing to follow.

#WeltyatHome: The Robber Bridegroom and The Ponder Heart.  Readers are invited to tune in with Suzanne Marrs, Eudora Welty's friend and biographer, at noon for an online discussion of Eudora Welty’s novels, The Robber Bridegroom and The Ponder Heart. This series will continue weekly on Mondays, September 16, October 7, October 14, and October 21. There will be a brief pause in this program on September 23 and September 30.

Learn how to start researching your family history! Join our genealogy workshop on Tracing African American Ancestors Using State Records at 10 a.m. on Saturday, September 7, at the William F. Winter Archives & History Building. Led by Joyce Dixon-Lawson, this workshop will teach participants how to research African American genealogy through navigating state records and resources available in the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) archival collections.

Celebrate Hezekiah Watkins' birthday at the Two Mississippi Museums on Sunday, September 1. On this free admission day, Watkins will share his experience during the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement at noon, 1:30 p.m., and 3 p.m. in the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. Copies of Watkins' Pushing Forward: The Story of Mississippi's Youngest Freedom Rider and t-shirts will be available for purchase, with a book signing available. For more information, call 601-576-6850 or email info@mdah.ms.gov.

Learn how to start researching your family history! Join our genealogy workshop on Tracing African American Ancestors Using County Records at 10 a.m. on Saturday, August 17, at the William F. Winter Archives & History Building. Led by Joyce Dixon-Lawson, this workshop will teach participants how to research African American genealogy through navigating county records and resources available in MDAH's archival collections. Register here.

Join us for a screening of An Ordinary Hero: The True Story of Joan Trumpauer Mulholland in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Two Mississippi Museums. This film explores the life of Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, who witnessed the realities of segregation and racism firsthand and participated in the Civil Rights Movement. At just 19 years old, Mulholland had participated in more than three dozen protests and was incarcerated on death row at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman after joining the Freedom Rides.

Education staff at the Two Mississippi Museums will offer tours to guests at 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Thursday, July 25, to commemorate the birthday of Emmett Till. For more information, call 601-576-6850 or email info@mdah.ms.gov.

Join us for the Atomic Alert! Gallery Talk at 11 a.m. on Thursday, October 10, at the Two Mississippi Museums. Michael Scheilbach, curator of Atomic Alert!, will discuss the early Atomic Age when the world was divided between two atomic-armed adversaries – the United States and the Soviet Union. For more information, call 601-576-6850 or email info@mdah.ms.gov.

Join us for a gallery talk on the Geologic Story of Tatum Dome and Mississippi's Nuclear Test at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, October 22, at the Two Mississippi Museums. The Mississippi Geological Survey played a key role in the nuclear testing of Tatum Salt Dome in Lamar County, Mississippi. Professional geologist Jonathan Leard of the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality will provide insights into this testing, known as Project Dribble, an overview of Mississippi’s geology, and the state’s connection to the "new" Atomic Age.