News Releases

Pamela Nicole Walker, a doctoral candidate at Rutgers University, has been named the 2019 Medgar and Myrlie Evers Research Scholar.

On Thursday, May 30, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Cottman will discuss the years he spent researching the origin of the Henrietta Marie, an eighteenth century English slave ship which capsized off the coast of Florida in 1700.

Lauren Rhoades has been named the new director of the Eudora Welty House and Garden.

The Mississippi Department of Archives and History has awarded grants totaling more than $78,000 to nine preservation projects in Certified Local Government (CLG) communities across the state.

Kaitlyn Smith, a doctoral student at the University of South Carolina, has been named the 2019 Eudora Welty Fellow.