Their assignment was to interview civil rights activists throughout the Mississippi Delta, weaving together personal stories with old photos and other artifacts that describe this era in American ...

One such story revisits the notorious “Vicksburg Gamblers,” a group of rowdy card players who disrupted a Fourth of July ...

Building on the 1920 donation, the library has received thousands of historical photos of steamboats, which played a major role in the development of the Mississippi and its tributaries.

In 1758, the French ethnographer Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz published The History of Louisiana, in which he wrote that the Mississippi River’s name meant “the ancient father of rivers.” ...