Yellowing sheet music, faded photographs and postcards from the early 20th century highlight Mississippi’s state song, state beverage, state toy and state dance. The display, located in the building’s lobby, just outside the research library, is one of the numerous ways the Mississippi Department of Archives and History is observing America250 and Mississippi’s place in our nation’s story.
The Mississippi Department of Archives and History’s annual Historic Preservation Boot Camp drew more than 40 participants from across the state. The event, held April 22-23 at the Charlotte Capers Building, is one of the ways the Historic Preservation Division serves the state’s communities.
In honor of National Volunteer Appreciation Week, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History hosted a Volunteer Appreciation Lunch on Monday, April 20.
Christina J. Thomas, a post doctorate fellow at the Center for Civil Rights History and Research at the University of South Carolina, is the recipient of the inaugural Robert “Bob” Moses Civil Rights Research Fellowship, offered by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
Vanderbilt PhD candidate Zachary Clary will research African American intellectualism and protest strategy during the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi.
A group of Mississippi students will participate in the National History Day Contest in College Park, Maryland, in June after winning at the state level at an event hosted by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
Arleigh Rodgers, a doctoral student at Stony Brook University in New York, has been selected as the Mississippi Department of Archives and History’s 2026 Eudora Welty Research Fellow. This summer, Rodgers will explore the Eudora Welty Collection, the world’s finest collection of materials related to the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and stage adaptations of Welty’s novella, “The Ponder Heart.”
Historian Jeff Giambrone has a personal connection to the Mississippi Made temporary exhibit at the Two Mississippi Museums. The exhibit displays some 250 artifacts, including items donated by Giambrone, who is assistant director of reference services at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, where he’s worked for nearly 14 years.
Chelsea McNutt, a Cornell University doctoral student, will research the role of Black women and their care work within the NAACP during the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi.