How the 1918 Mississippi A&M football team battled a pandemic and wartime to play its season
The former name for Mississippi State, Mississippi A&M fought its way to a 3-2 record during a haphazard 1918 season.
Food: A path to understanding where we come from
Since the beginning of humankind, food has been a marker of cultures.
MSU announces June date for history, genealogy program
For the third consecutive year, Mississippi State University Libraries are sponsoring the E. O. Templeton Jr. History and Genealogy Fair.
W receives gift of more than $2M in support of scholarships
Ann Coleman Peyton, granddaughter of Mississippi University for Women founding mother Annie Coleman Peyton, has provided a bequest gift of more than $2 million.
Book takes fresh look at Mississippi history
The book is called “A New History of Mississippi,” and a new approach is what Dennis Mitchell wanted when he wrote it.
Sunday at the Bluff looks back at the Black Prairie
No region in the entire Southeast, except perhaps the Mississippi Delta, is as rich in agricultural history as the Black Prairie. Just where is this unique region and what makes it so special?
Gone, but not forgotten: Cemeteries help tell the story of the area’s black history
State officials this month will consider nominating a place known as the Starkville Colored Cemetery to the National Register of Historic Places.
It sits less than a mile from the Oktibbeha County Courthouse. No one knows who owns it, though.
USS Monitor work ceases as dollars dwindle
When the turret of the USS Monitor was hoisted from the ocean floor in 2002, the real heavy lifting was just beginning: conserving and restoring more than 200 tons of Civil War ironclad artifacts.
A short history course on Thanksgiving foods
Ask the people around the table on Thursday about the history of Thanksgiving, and most will say something about the Pilgrims.
Eliza’s letters: A voice from Columbus’ past helps define a ‘New Southern Woman’
On a clear winter’s night in December 1860, Eliza Lucy Irion Neilson of Columbus sat down with a notebook and began writing her life story. One hundred and fifty-three years later, those who have come after her have a firsthand account of the ordinary and extraordinary world of the American South during and after the American Civil War.
New book tells pictorial history of Tupelo
TUPELO — The past can be a fragile thing that’s easily torn or lost. “People inherit photographs and they don’t know anything about them,” Bill
Ask Rufus: History overflows at the foot of Main Street
From under the old drawbridge at the Riverwalk, the Tombigbee River looks small and peaceful as it slowly flows toward Mobile. Yet for almost 500 hundred years that location has witnessed an almost unbelievable pageant of history.
State unlikely to raise history passing score
JACKSON — Mississippi history students can breathe easier: The passing score required on the state’s high school U.S. history exam is unlikely to rise until
Experts find remains of King Richard III
He was king of England, but for centuries he lay without shroud or coffin in an unknown grave, and his name became a byword for villainy.
Scientists to reveal result of Richard III hunt
Has Britain’s lost king been found?
Today scientists will announce the results of tests conducted to determine whether a battle-scarred skeleton found under a municipal parking lot in central England belongs to 15th-century King Richard III, the last English monarch to die in combat.
A revered historian – the ‘cheerful assassin’ — inspires a surprise tribute by protégés
Some of John Marszalek’s friends are pretty good at keeping a secret. The distinguished scholar’s wife, Jeanne, was even in on it.
For three years or more, unbeknownst to the Mississippi State Giles Distinguished Professor Emeritus, a network of his former doctoral students worked on a tribute to the mentor who had so stirred their passion for studying the Civil War era and its influence on shaping America.
Voice of the people: Ben C. Toledano
Takes issue with interpretation of history Were I to attempt to discuss fracking, it would become apparent immediately that I know nothing about the subject.
Rufus Ward: ‘Number 27 and the Pumpkin Pie’
Columbus was a major military hospital center during the Civil War. That was not a status Columbus sought. However, being a branch of the Mobile and Ohio railroad, and the handling of wounded after the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862, resulted in the development of Columbus as a Confederate hospital center.
Arsenal of history: Starkville man turns Civil War collection into museum
The building sits just off the beaten path in the Sunset subdivision west of Starkville. From the outside, it has no distinct features. The brown metal, coupled with white bay doors, gives the 2,200-square-foot structure the appearance of a storage unit. It doesn’t even have an address. But a step inside takes visitors back to the 1860s.
Local historian explains how the river connected Columbus to the world
Before airplanes, trucks, cars or even railroads brought people and supplies, steamboats paddled up and down the Tombigbee River to connect Columbus with the rest of the world. During this time, the Eliza Battle ruled the river, until the river claimed the Eliza Battle.