Events

A panel from the Mississippi Press Association will discuss the impact of community journalism across Mississippi over the past 160 years at noon on Wednesday, April 22, as part of the History Is Lunch series. Panelists include Anita Lee, Natalie Perkins, Jamie Patterson, and moderator Charles Overby.

At noon on Wednesday, April 15, Robert Colby, assistant professor of history at the University of Mississippi, will discuss the intersections of slavery, capitalism, the Civil War, and emancipation as part of the History Is Lunch series. Colby’s book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South, explores the place of the peculiar institution in the Confederate mind

Join us at noon on Wednesday, April 8, as Alcorn State University English professor J. Janice Coleman highlights the Hansberry family’s ties to Alcorn A&M College—the oldest public institution of higher learning for African Americans in Mississippi. Though best known because Lorraine Hansberry wrote A Raisin in the Sun, the first Broadway play by an African American woman

A panel will discuss the political life and legacy of longtime U.S. Senator Thad Cochran at noon on Wednesday, March 18, as part of the History Is Lunch series. Panelists include Governor Haley Barbour; Mark Keenum, president of Mississippi State University; Judge Leslie Southwick of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; Brad White, executive director of the Mississippi Department of Transportation; and Nehemiah Flowers, former senior staff member for Senator Cochran.

Mondays at noon, the Eudora Welty House & Garden will host live discussions of Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald, edited and introduced by Suzanne Marrs and Tom Nolan, as part of the Welty at Home Virtual Book Club program.

Join us for a free event featuring a screening of Natchez at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 12, in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson. This 86-minute documentary journeys through an antebellum tourist destination at a crossroads as it grapples with a deeply troubled history.

Join us on Thursday, March 26, at 11 a.m. 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 the ninth annual Bettye Jolly Lecture Series featuring Richard Ford, acclaimed novelist and short story author, at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 2, on the lawn of the Eudora Welty House & Garden. A book signing and reception will follow the lecture.

At noon on Wednesday, April 1, the Hinds Community College Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Joseph Earp, will present a special concert as part of the History Is Lunch series. The program will begin with a brief reflection on America’s past 250 years, followed by the wind ensemble performing iconic works related to the nation’s history

Join us for the Heirloom Plant Sale at 9 a.m. on Saturday, March 28, at the Eudora Welty House & Garden in Jackson. Attendees will have the rare opportunity to shop heirloom plants propagated from Eudora Welty’s garden and specially grown plants popular in Welty’s era.