The Mississippi Department of Archives and History has named Barry White as its new director. White will succeed Katie Blount ...

Natchez is one of those places where the past is never far away. Cotton, slavery, river... The post Natchez, Mississippi: From Hard History to Easygoing Riverfront Charm appeared first on The Daily ...

Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded a $2.5 million grant to the Foundation for Mississippi History to support and promote Mississippi Department of Archives and History programs, activities, and projects ...

Journalist Ellen Ann Fentress has spent more than 15 years putting together a documentary on journalist Bill Minor.

JACKSON, Miss. — It's been 70 years since the lynching of Emmett Till, a Black teenager from Chicago who was visiting relatives in Mississippi. White men kidnapped, tortured, shot, and dumped him in a ...

The weapon used to kill Black teenager Emmett Till in one of the most notorious lynchings that helped ignite the civil rights movement is now on display at a museum in the Deep South. Emmett was just ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WDAM) - The Mississippi Department of Archives and History has announced that the gun and its holster used in 14-year-old Emmett Till’s murder have been acquired. The Foundation for ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Officials with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) announced that the gun used in the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till had been acquired 70 years ...

This gun has a serial number identifying it as part of an FBI investigation into the killing of Emmett Till, according to the Two Mississippi Museums. It is believed to have been the murder weapon, ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State Professor Renée M. Clary is the 2025 recipient of the Geological Society of America’s ...

President Donald Trump says the U.S. plans to restart nuclear weapons testing for the first time in more than 30 years, a move experts fear could raise global tensions and disrupt the nuclear balance ...