Free State of Jones, the Civil War thriller starring Matthew McConaughey and Mahershala Ali, was quietly added to Netflix on ...

Throughout history, America has held to this value, spending its resources to re-establish and rebuild the nations of former adversaries. So it is that magnanimity in victory is an enduring American ...

This Congressional Gold Medal was awarded on December 17, 1863 to General Grant after his victory at Vicksburg. The battle of Vicksburg was a turning point for the Union Army. The siege lasted six ...

The Battle of Bull Run, the first major clash in the Civil War, ended in a Confederate victory. It shattered illusions that ...

In 1938, Henry Roth, the last of Warsaw’s Civil War veterans, was overjoyed as he planned a trip to the battlefield of ...

Incumbent high court Justice Dawn Beam was defeated by David Sullivan. A Court of Appeals race remains too close to call, ...

We must become critical consumers of history again. Our present-day society demands it. We as black historians and consumers have a new black power. We finally have a platform to give our studied ...

Abraham Lincoln of Illinois was elected President of the United States of America on November 6, 1860, for a four-year term. One year later, on November 6, 1861, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi was ...

As resistance to integration mounted, Florence Mars bought a camera and began to photograph thousands of subjects, including the trial of the killers of Emmett Till.

For those looking for hills and mountains to climb, one does not have to leave the state. Though Mississippi’s underground ...

Get the latest Mississippi news delivered to your inbox on weekday mornings ... During her time at the Capitol, she’s voted against changing the state flag to remove the Confederate battle emblem, ...

It seems like Almost Yesterday that Union troops under General William Tecumseh Sherman were moving south against Atlanta.