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Mississippi is one of America's most fertile creative regions. Literary giants like Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, Richard ...

It was a calm night when two fishermen landed on Deer Island, near Biloxi. They were preparing their campsite, when there was a ...

Each week in 2017,

Born 120 years ago this week in New Albany, Faulkner used the Mississippi he knew as the foundation for his

Many of today's most famous actors call Mississippi home. In fact, you may see a few of them at the Academy Awards. Learn more ...

After six weeks of bombardment and

Born this week in 1808, he was a West Point graduate, a cotton planter, a member of the U.S. House and Senate. He was a hero ...

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, European explorers ventured into the area we now know as Mississippi. It was during ...

On May 4, 1961, young black and white activists left Washington, D.C. to travel by bus into the South. Along the way, these ...

Each week in 2017,

Prohibition in the United States ended in 1933, but that wasn't the case in Mississippi. Our State didn't repeal it until 1966.

Medical students everywhere study the Textbook of Medical Physiology. Now translated into 15 languages, it is without question ...

On April 21, 1927, a district official wired a brief message to the head of the Army Corps of Engineers: "Levee broke at ferry ...

In August 1969, Hurricane Camille struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast

On December 10, 1817 – two hundred years ago this week – Mississippi became the 20th state in the Union. Former territorial ...

If you ask a Mississippian about the historic Natchez Trace, you might hear tales of highwaymen robbing travelers