Events

At noon on Wednesday, July 22, Susannah Ural, Frank and Virginia Williams Chair for Abraham Lincoln and Civil War Studies at Mississippi State University, will present on the nation’s largest privately held collection of Lincolniana as part of the History Is Lunch series. Ural will use the Williams Collection of Lincolniana from Mississippi State University

At noon on Wednesday, June 17, Tony Bounds, institutional historian at Tougaloo College, will discuss the connection between Tougaloo College and major events in American history as part of the History Is Lunch series. From its Indigenous namesake to its years as an antebellum plantation and later a refuge during the Civil Rights Movement,

Interested in furthering your genealogical research? Join us on Saturday, June 27, at 10 a.m. for the Dawes Rolls: Tribal Membership Genealogy Workshop in the orientation room of the William F. Winter Archives and History Building.

Join us at 11 a.m. Thursday, July 9, at the Two Mississippi Museums to embark on a behind-the-scenes tour of the MDAH Historic Objects Collection led by Nan Prince, MDAH director of collections, and Hong Li, MDAH collections manager.

Join us for History Happy Hour on Thursday, July 16, from 5 to 7 p.m. with food from Iron Horse Grill, a cash bar, and Phillip Rollins (aka DJ Young Venom) spinning a curated selection of vinyl records at the Two Mississippi Museums. This free event will include an interactive trivia game

At noon on Wednesday, July 15, Shaun Stalzer, senior archivist for the Government Records section at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, will discuss a large collection of nineteenth-century coroner inquests as part of the History Is Lunch series.

At noon on Wednesday, June 24, April Holm, assistant professor of history and associate director of the Center for Civil War Research at the University of Mississippi, will discuss how churches shaped major evangelical denominations

At noon on Wednesday, July 8, Caroline Bayne, assistant professor of Communication and Media Studies and director of Film Studies at Millsaps College, will present on segregation in mass media in Jackson from the 1950s to the 1960s as part of the History Is Lunch series.

At noon on Wednesday, July 1, Brother Rogers, retired historian for the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, will present his recent Journal of Mississippi History article, “Lafayette Visits Mississippi as the ‘Guest of the Nation,’” as part of the History Is Lunch series.

Mondays at noon, the Eudora Welty House & Garden will host live discussions of The Underground Man and Sleeping Beauty by Ross Macdonald as part of the Welty at Home Virtual Book Club program. Discussions will be led by Suzanne Marrs, Eudora Welty’s friend and biographer. Email info@eudoraweltyhouse.com to register.