Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College President Mary S. Graham, Ph.D., has been elected to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Board of Trustees.
A new performer will headline the upcoming History Happy Hour at the Two Mississippi Museums.
Each year, MDAH offers four regional training sessions in communities across Mississippi, bringing preservation expertise directly to the people working to protect historic resources in their own hometowns.
MDAH, in partnership with Jackson Public Schools (JPS), will provide educational tours for seven years to JPS students at the Two Mississippi Museums, Eudora Welty House & Garden, and the archival collection housed at the William F. Winter Archives and History Building as part of the district’s new federally funded GEAR UP initiative.
Author Tracy Carr recently moderated a lively panel discussion exploring the life, work and unmistakable voice of celebrated Mississippi author Ellen Gilchrist called “Holding Court with the Queen: Conversations with Ellen Gilchrist” during History is Lunch at the Two Mississippi Museums.
Nissan Neighbors has awarded a $40,000 grant to the Foundation for Mississippi History to support student field trips to the Two Mississippi Museums.
Andrew Young – a veteran civil rights activist who served as a Georgia congressman, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and a former mayor of Atlanta – will deliver the Medgar Wiley Evers Lecture on Thursday, Sept. 3, at 6 p.m. at the Two Mississippi Museums.
At the 128-acre National Historic Landmark administered by MDAH, history is more than something preserved in exhibits—it's experienced through demonstrations of Indigenous cooking, crafts, and culture that connect modern audiences with the people who first called this land home.
Christina J. Thomas, a post doctorate fellow at the Center for Civil Rights History and Research at the University of South Carolina, is in the final stages of a project that will make that information more accessible.