Mississippi History NOW

12/15/2025

Read our latest article on the education of Jesse Brown, a Hattiesburg native who was the first African American to complete the U.S. Navy's basic flight training and served in the Korean War: https://mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov/issue/education-jesse-leroy-brown-0

07/16/2025

Ida B. Wells, civil rights journalist and co-founder of The National Association of the Advancement of Colored People ( ), was born in Holly Springs in 1862. Learn more about Wells' courageous activism during the Civil Rights Movement at the article provided courtesy of Mississippi History NOW: https://bit.ly/4ePrt2y.

02/14/2025

Learn about the history of Camp Shelby in this new article: https://mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov/issue/brief-history-camp-shelby.

12/11/2024

11/08/2024

Learn about the civil rights movement in Natchez with our new article from Roscoe Barnes III! https://www.mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov/issue/civil-rights-movement-natchez-mississippi

09/11/2024

Learn about the Okolona Industrial School in this new article https://mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov/issue/okolona-industrial-school by Shaun Stalzer.

12/08/2023

Get your mojo working with our newest article, "Muddy Waters and Langston Hughes Spread the Blues at Newport and Beyond" written by Kenneth Anthony and Valencia Epps: https://www.mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov/issue/muddy-waters.

12/05/2023

The Mississippi Historical Society is sad to learn of the passing of Peggy Jeanes. She was the original and longtime editor of the online publication, Mississippi History NOW. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/peggy-jeanes-obituary?id=53751317

08/03/2023

Read our newest article, "Mississippi and the Lost Cause" written by historian Michael J. Goleman at https://www.mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov/issue/mississippi-and-lost-cause.

Pictured is a Confederate monument unveiled April 28, 1908, in Raymond, Mississippi. Image courtesy of the Cooper Postcard Collection at MDAH.

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Mississippi Historical Society

03/13/2023

Read our newest article "The Big Dreamer: James Meredith's Fight For Integration,” written by MDAH public information officer Candace Mckenzie at https://mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov/issue/jamesmeredith.

Image courtesy of the Ed Meek Collection, University of Mississippi 1962. Joint ownership between Ed Meek, The University of Mississippi, The School of Journalism and New Media, and The Department of Archives and Special Collections.