University of Mississippi Department of History

06/13/2024

So proud of Lauren, Lily, and Samantha for being inducted into Phi Alpha Theta! 🎉📚📖 PAT is a national history honors society that accepts new students each spring. We inducted sveen other students this year! Thank you Dr Howard for heading the induction ceremony at our awards picnic.

Interested in joining next year? If you’ve taken 12 semester hours of history courses and have at least a 3.1 GPA, then you’re eligible!

06/13/2024

Congratulations to Dr. Don Guillory, our Slavery and the University campus tour guide, on getting his PhD in History from the University of Mississippi Department of History!

03/26/2024

History Department hats, shirts, and crewnecks are now available for purchase! Deadline is this Sunday, March 31st at midnight. Shipping and local pickup options are available!
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03/26/2024

03/26/2024

THURSDAY: Come listen to Christian Murray discuss his digital scholarship project: Penny University Library in the Harrison Room at noon. You can view the project here: Penny-university-lib.com

03/21/2024

Join us Monday!

03/21/2024

Don't miss out on this exciting lecture happening next Thursday at 5pm at the Overby Center Auditorium! 📚 📖🎤 The event is free and open to the public.

03/19/2024

Big congratulations to Dr. Robert Colby on the publication of his first book 🎉📚👏🏻 It’s titled “An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South.” We are so proud of him for achieving this incredible milestone!

03/12/2024

Rev. Dr. Cornelius W. Grafton—often described as “Mississippi’s greatest minister”—pastored two rural Presbyterian churches in southwestern Mississippi for sixty-one consecutive years, from his ordination in 1873 to his death in 1934. To learn about this famed religious leader, visit David T. Irving’s entry in the Mississippi Encyclopedia at https://bit.ly/3UYKFTm

02/23/2024

02/23/2024

The Mississippi Historical Society presented its Lifetime Achievement Award to professor emeritus Charles Reagan Wilson at its annual meeting today in Oxford. He was the Kelly Gene Cook Sr. Chair of History and Professor of Southern Studies at The University of Mississippi - Ole Miss, where he taught from 1981 to 2014. He served as director of the Southern Studies academic program from 1991 to 1998, and director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture from 1998 to 2007. Author of numerous books and articles, Wilson was coeditor, with William Ferris, of the original Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, and general editor of the 24-volume New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.

02/14/2024

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