Events

Suzanne Gibson will present the 2026 Humanities Teacher Award lecture for Meridian Community College titled “Roles, Obedience, and Authority: An Examination of the Stanford Prison Experiment.” This presentation examines the Stanford Prison Experiment to explore how assigned roles can significantly influence human behavior. It explains how individuals may change when placed into specific social roles […]

Mississippi Freedom Trail Unveiling: The Meridian Civil Rights Movement 2505 5th Street Meridian, MS   11 a.m.   Read More

Jerry Jenkins presents "A Look at Mande (West African) Culture Through Traditional Music" on February 27, 2026, at 2:30 p.m. This presentation will give the listener a glimpse of the Mande Culture of West Africa. In the tradition of the Mande, the history and culture is orally preserved in the minds and through the music […]

Deadline for Witness: The Freedom Memory Project 2026 applications. How to Apply First, contact MHC Director of Strategic Initiatives John Spann (jspann@mhc.state.ms.us) to discuss your community’s idea. Then, fill out the Witness: The Mississippi Freedom Project application by March 1, 2026. All applications will be reviewed by the project’s advisory board. The 2026 cohort of […]

Join us for a free screening of "In Search of Phillis Wheatley Peters" at 2 p.m., Sunday, March 1, in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium. This 35-minute documentary uncovers the little-known love story of Phillis Wheatley, America’s first Black published poet, and John Peters, a free Black man she married in 1778. Following the screening, […]

“The Women’s American Revolution” presented by Sarah Hogue, PhD candidate March 2, 2026 @12 PM Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System downtown branch While the contributions of soldiers in American Revolution are easily seen, it can often be more difficult to envision the role that women played during the war. Women provided valuable support during the Revolution, […]

Evan Lenow will present the 2026 Humanities Teacher Award lecture for Mississippi College titled “Retrieving Virtue: Moral Character Development as an Act of Worship.” Socrates famously stated, "The unexamined life is not worth living." Rather than the endless pursuit of vanity, Socrates called his students to aspire to virtue and character in order to become better […]

Joe B. Raymond III will present the 2026 Humanities Teacher Award lecture for Southwest Mississippi Community College titled "A Comparative Study of Dual Enrollment Programs in Southern Mississippi." The lecture will take place on the Southwest Mississippi Community College campus on March 3, 2026, at 1 p.m.

Dr. Amber Harrison Mabus will present the 2026 Humanities Teacher Award lecture for Holmes Community College titled “From Austen to Bridgerton: The Enduring Appeal of Regency Romance in Popular Culture.” 250 years after her birth, Jane Austen’s stories still resonate with modern audiences, thanks to the ongoing popularity of Regency-era romance in books, television, and […]

Dr. Richard Purcell will present the 2026 Humanities Teacher Award lecture for the University of Mississippi titled “Race, Speculative Value and Art at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century.” The lecture will take place on the University of Mississippi campus on March 3, 2026, at 5 p.m.

Max Grivno presents "Slavery in Antebellum Mississippi" By 1860, Mississippi’s farms and plantations yielded 1.2 million bales of cotton, making it the nation’s leading cotton producer. This prosperity rested on the backs of some 436,631 enslaved blacks, who constituted 55 percent of the state’s population and who made Mississippi the third-largest slave-holding state, behind only […]

Shelly Stolp will present the 2026 Humanities Teacher Award lecture for Pearl River Community College titled “The Mind-Body Loop: How Psychology Shapes Health More Than We Realize.” This presentation examines how psychological processes shape physical health, often through everyday stress. Using guided imagery and discussion of the autonomic nervous system, it illustrates the mind–body feedback […]