Events

Dr. Susannah J. Ural will open the traveling exhibit Freedom: A History of US with her talk Civil War Era Mississippians Debate America’s Founding Principles on Tuesday, April 7 at 12 noon at the downtown branch of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System. The Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi (CWRGM) project is a collection of the state’s […]

Dr. Christian Pinnen will present Spanish Dons in Colonial Mississippi: The Spanish roots of Mississippi’s Cotton Kingdom on Thursday, April 16 at 12 noon at the downtown branch of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System. Spain has a short, but important part in Mississippi’s history. Between 1779 and 1798, Spanish administrators sought to wrangle profits and people in […]

Dr. Max Grivno will present The American Revolution in the Gulf South on Monday April 20 at 6pm at Mississippi University for Women. The history of the American Revolution along the Gulf South is seldom told. Although most of the Europeans who called the region were sympathetic to the British — or at least hoped to remain […]

Mississippi University for Women will present the third episode titled "The Times that Try Men's Souls" from the new Ken Burns documentary The American Revolution on April 27 at 6pm in the Nissan Auditorium in Parkinson Hall. This episode covers the period from July 1776 to January 1777. The Revolution, now a war for American independence, faces […]