Robert Colby is a historian at the University of Mississippi. His first book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil ...

To people who happen to be admirers of Spanish Civil War literature ... was apparently not clear to many of them before the University of Mississippi desegregation—and about all that the ...

Mississippi’s schools are so bad they violate the promises the state made after the Civil War to be readmitted to the Union, parents of four black elementary school students said in a federal lawsuit ...

Mississippi's vice-chancellor for university relations. "There is a lot of history here. The Lyceum served as a hospital during the Civil War. It's not surprising that a lot of people are upset ...

Their assignment was to interview civil rights activists throughout ... this living history for the federally supported Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area (MDNHA), which is managed by Delta ...

(AP) — A new historical marker has been unveiled in the hometown of James Meredith, honoring the Black man who fought white supremacy by integrating the University of Mississippi in 1962.