Two Mississippi museums in Jackson opened their doors Tuesday for a preview of the soon-to-be completed, engaging and emotional chronicle of the state's history. The theme of the Museum of Mississippi ...

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 ...

JACKSON, Miss. — A canoe that’s hundreds of years old will be one of the largest artifacts for visitors to see in the new Museum of Mississippi History. Workers are preparing a display case for the ...

The city of Seville awoke early, the old streets alive with singing birds and distant bells. The cobblestone alleys smelled faintly of hidden gardens. I’d flown here for a chance to hold a ...

“This is Mississippi, the middle of the iceberg. This is a tremor in the middle of the iceberg from a stone that the builders rejected,” Bob Moses, the director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating ...

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For the New World, the history of Natchez, Mississippi, goes way back. The city, now with a population that hovers around 14,000, is often cited as one of the oldest continuously inhabited European ...