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A twenty-five-foot-long dugout became the first of 17,000 artifacts to enter the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum last week.

At noon on Wednesday, August 30, Charles W. Eagles will discuss his new book "Civil Rights, Culture Wars: The Fight over a Mississippi Textbook."

Dockery Farms, 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 photographs and postcards to reconstruct a family’s 1870s vacation route, and more—at Mr. Manship’s Mystery Rooms, from July 12 through 21 at the Manship House Museum.

Bobby J. Smith II, a doctoral student from Cornell University, has been named the 2017 Medgar Evers Research Scholar.