News Releases

4/13/2017

Thieves have vandalized the nearly two-hundred-year-old Shaifer House in Claiborne County, making off with four wood

3/8/2017
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.
2/17/2017

The Mississippi Department of Archives and History is accepting applications for the 2017 Medgar and Myrlie Evers Research Schola

2/16/2017

Toyota Motor North America has made a $750,000 contribution for the Mississippi Department of Archives and History’s 2 Mississippi Museums project.

2/10/2017

The leadership team for the 2 Mississippi Museums is now in place with Cindy Gardner as site administrator, Pamela Junior as director of the M

2/8/2017

The Eudora Welty House and Garden will host a reading from Paulette Jiles on Thursday, February 16.

1/27/2017

Award-winning author Nicholas Lemann will give a talk on “The History of the History of Reconstruction” at the Old Capit

1/25/2017

The Old Capitol Museum begins the new year with a Luminaries and Legends Hall of Fame spotlight exhibit celebrating Mississippian John Roy Lynch.

1/13/2017

On Wednesday, November 15, as part of the History Is Lunch series, Karen L.

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