This presentation examines how slaves and colonists weathered the economic and political upheavals that rocked the Lower Mississippi Valley in the years between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Dr. Pinnen focuses on the fitful–and often futile–efforts of the English, the Spanish, and the Americans to establish plantation agriculture in Natchez and its environs, […]
Annual Black history month programs featuring historical perspectives on the African American experience in Mississippi from slavery through Civil Rights and contemporary times. The February 6th event will feature guest speaker Dr. John A Peoples, Jr., retired President of Jackson State University.
Humanities Teacher Awardee for Mississippi Delta Community College, Jacquelyn Moore, will present her public lecture. Details TBA.
MDAH will commemorate the 150th anniversary of the historic election of Hiram Revels as the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate in a ceremony at the Old Capitol in Jackson on Tuesday, February 11, 2020, at 6 p.m. Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, will deliver the […]
Hezekiah Watkins, Mississippi Freedom Rider Annual Black history month programs featuring historical perspectives on the African American experience in Mississippi from slavery through Civil Rights and contemporary times. Feb. 13 will feature Rep. Alyce G. Clark, Rev. Edwin King, Ms. Euvester Simpson, and Mr. Hezekiah Watkins.
Through its "Bridging Cultures" Program, the International Museum of Muslin Cultures utilizes its two signature exhibitions: "Muslims with Christians and Jews: An Exhibition of Covenants and Coexistence," and "The Legacy of Timbuktu: Wonders of the Written Word" to develop a series of programs and educational opportunities. IMMC's Islamic Thought Institute engages local and national […]
Dr. Micah Rueber, Humanities Teacher Awardee for Mississippi Valley State University, will present his public lecture: Rueber will present material he has gathered while working on a manuscript about a river barge that sank in 1961. While barge sinkings are not uncommon, this one drew the attention of President Kennedy because it was carrying 1000 […]
John Robert Hall, Humanities Teacher Award winner for Holmes Community College, presents his public lecture: In 1772, John Newton, former slave trader turned Anglican priest, wrote the words to the hymn titled “Amazing Grace!” Though published in 1779, “Amazing Grace!” remained a lesser known hymn in Great Britain; however, in the nineteenth century […]
Dr. Courtney Luckhardt, Humanities Teacher Awardee for the University of Southern Mississippi, presents her public lecture: In order to make the history of the European Middle Ages relevant, it’s important for both students and the wider public to understand the way that the history of pre-modern period is used by modern people. Dr. Luckhardt teaches […]
On February 18, join the Mississippi Humanities Council at Hal and Mal's in Jackson for a program about prison reform in Mississippi. The February 18 program will focus on the current unrest and violence in Mississippi prisons as a way to examine our larger relationship to the prison system, its history and role in our […]
The League of Women Voters Oxford-North Mississippi will present a media project commemorating 100 years of womens suffrage (as well as the founding of LWV) at a February 18 celebration.
Dr. Christian Pinnen, Humanities Teacher of the Year for Mississippi College, presents his public lecture: The date “1619” has garnered more attention than in recent memory over the last couple of months. The year the first enslaved Africans arrived on the shores of the Virginia colony engenders a sort of intellectual reckoning with Americas past […]
