The Neshoba County Red Clay Hills Bicentennial Picnic in Philadelphia, MS featuring 200 years of historic artifacts, fashion, and music from the Fair City Chorale, country music from the Neshoba […]

We are very excited to announce that we are bringing National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi to deliver our Cora Norman Lecture on October 7th at the Jackson Planetarium!

Performance of Scott Joplin’s opera “Treemonisha,” about the importance of education, centered on the life of a young former slave woman in the late 19th century who rallies her people to […]

The 56-minute documentary will air at 2 p.m. Oct. 8, on MPB Television. See more information here

Come watch area musicians perform their songs to vye for "Best Mississippi Song" at this public concert with food and beverages. The concert is the conclusion of a songwriting contest […]

This fall, in a special series of events titled, "A Celebration of Southern Photography," The University of Southern Mississippi will host a lecture by renowned Southern studies expert Dr. William […]

Coahoma Community College is combining a celebration of Mississippi's Bicentennial with the Tennessee William's 25th anniversary in an innovative showcase of Mississippi and Clarksdale's diverse histories that influenced its native son […]

Come find out more about Fulton's past through experiencing one of its historic treasures: the Fulton Cemetery. Local historians will give an introduction to the history of the cemetery.  Guests can then […]

The Lower Delta Speakers Series includes a variety of folks who will speak on a topic of interest each month, topics that tell great Mississippi stories focused on our region […]

More than 15,000 photographic negatives and prints taken by Columbus photographer Carl Brown were recently donated to the Local History Department at the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library. The images, dating roughly […]