Medgar Evers, assassinated 60 years ago, will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor.

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The 2024 Medgar Evers Lecture Series featuring MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid and literary scholar Ebony Lumumba at the Two Mississippi Museums is now available for viewing at bit.ly/49XHRtK. The program was sponsored by Medgar&MyrlieEversInstitute and WKKF.

What does the Hispanic population of Mississippi look like? It's diverse and growing clarionledger.com/story/news/loc…

May is Preservation Month, and at noon on Wednesday, May 1, Jim Underwood will discuss Mississippi’s oldest residential structure, the LaPointe-Krebs House, for #HistoryIsLunch at the Two Mississippi Museums. facebook.com/events/1186522…

Thank you to the Cadet Gospel Choir of U.S. Military Academy at West Point for performing at the Two Mississippi Museums! Choir members Gabrielle Nelson and Blake Smith are native Mississippians from Byram and Brandon respectively. The cadets toured the 'Flags From Mississippi' special exhibit.

MDAH offices, the archives library, and all museum sites will be closed on Monday, April 29, for a state holiday.

Thank you former Chief Justice Bill Waller, Jr. for sharing this memory of how the late MDAH director emeritus Elbert Hilliard helped you find a portrait of a 19th century chief justice. He loved helping others discover Mississippi history. Read more at mdah.ms.gov/elbert-and-unc….

Join us at noon on Wednesday, April 24, for #HistoryIsLunch at the Two Mississippi Museums when Rex Jones will screen his new short documentary on Steve Holland followed by a conversation between Steve Holland and Marshall Ramsey. facebook.com/events/4485729…

#ICYMI : Trent Brown presented “Murder in McComb: The Tina Andrews Case” during last week's #HistoryIsLunch the Two Mississippi Museums. youtube.com/watch?v=OGbmUX…

Join us at noon on Wednesday, April 17, when author Trent Brown will present “Murder in McComb: The Tina Andrews Case” for this week's #HistoryIsLunch at the Two Mississippi Museums.

#ICYMI : Pete Smith presented “Women Journalists of Mississippi and a Century of State Politics, 1880s-1980s” during last week's #HistoryIsLunch the Two Mississippi Museums. youtube.com/watch?v=UCs9FU…

Thank you to all who participated in our 2024 Mississippi Freedom Seder, in partnership with the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life - ISJL The ISJL . #twoMSmuseums

Thank you to the crew of the USS Jackson for visiting the Two Mississippi Museums! The USS Jackson is named for Mississippi’s capital city and is based in San Diego. U.S. Navy

Our reading rooms in the William F. Winter Archives & History Building are free for guests to access thousands of books on Mississippi history and view other archival materials. Visit mdah.ms.gov/research/winte…
to learn more about research at MDAH! #NationalLibraryWeek

Join us at noon on Wednesday, April 10, for #HistoryIsLunch at the Two Mississippi Museums when author Pete Smith will present “Women Journalists and Mississippi Politics 1880s-1980s.”

Thank you Eddie S. Glaude Jr. for starting your book tour at the Two Mississippi Museums in conversation with Pamela D.C. Junior. Signed copies of 'We Are The Leaders We Have Been Looking For' by Eddie Glaude Jr. are available at the Mississippi Museum Store. Harvard University Press

Eudora Welty House & Garden to offer free tours, events in honor of late writer's birthday
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Excavations at Prospect Hill Plantation turned up over 4,000 artifacts in 9 days, such as this brick with fingerprints from an enslaved person. Join us at noon today for #HistoryIsLunch when MSU's Shawn Lambert will present 'The Archaeology of Enslavement at Prospect Hill.'

Mississippi lost a good public servant with Elbert Hilliard's death clarionledger.com/story/opinion/…

#ICYMI : Emilye Crosby presented “‘Anything I Was Big Enough to Do’: Women in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement” during last week's #HistoryIsLunch at the Two Mississippi Museums. The speaker series is held every Wednesday at noon.
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