Topic: America 250

In commemoration of America’s 250th, these presentations explore America’s founding and Mississippi’s role in advancing the ideals on which our nation was founded.

The Natchez Trace
by Dr. Susan Gaunt Stearns
Natchez in the Early American Economy
by Dr. Susan Gaunt Stearns
The Mississippi River and the American Founding
by Dr. Susan Gaunt Stearns
Vietnamese Narratives: A Story of Refuge and Resilience of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Vietnamese
by Dr. Emma Phuong To
by Jennifer Le
Jefferson College: Mississippi’s Birthplace
by Michael Morris
Civil War Era Mississippians Debate America’s Founding Principles
by Susannah J. Ural
Abraham Lincoln and America 250
by Susannah J. Ural
Spanish Dons in Colonial Mississippi: The Spanish roots of Mississippi’s Cotton Kingdom
by Christian Pinnen
The Marquis de Lafayette Visits Mississippi
by William "Brother" Rogers
Pushing Forward: Hezekiah Watkins and the Youth Movement of Mississippi
by Hezekiah Watkins
The Emmett Till Generation: Youth Activism, Radical Protest, and Social Change in Jim Crow Mississippi
by Daphne Chamberlain