
Presenting his findings on African American service in the Civil War, Miller Boyd, an advanced doctoral student of history at the … [Read More...]

A Department of History doctoral student, Rachel Smith Purvis, has been awarded the Cassius Marcellus Clay Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Yale … [Read More...]

The Wall Street Journal featured the Federalist-era women's rights advocate and Professor Skemp's First Lady of Letters: Judith Sargent … [Read More...]

Dr. Daniel Sutherland will speak at the Overby Center at 6:30 p.m., April 26, 2012. The Center for Civil War Research is pleased to … [Read More...]

Croft Associate Professor of History Dr. Joshua Howard was recently invited to be the guest editor of a special issue of the … [Read More...]

Croft Professor of Middle Eastern History Vivian Ibrahim recently edited a volume of essays entitled Political Leadership, Nations and … [Read More...]
Deirdre Cooper Owens teaches courses that focus on early U.S. history, American slavery, gender, and American medicine.
Dr. Ross is Director of the African American Studies Program.
Dr. Payne at work.
Vivian Ibrahim recently edited a volume of essays entitled "Political Leadership, Nations and Charisma."
The Children's Defense Fund founder directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson and served as counsel for the Poor People's Campaign organized by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Each April, the Center for Civil War Research invites a distinguished historian to UM to deliver a lecture on the Civil War era. The event is free and open to the public.
MHC Scholar Award recipient Professor Elizabeth Payne (left) with Ms. Macey Ferrell who is featured in Payne's documentary film "Makin' Do."
Silver Pond---near the intersection of Sorority Row and West Jackson Avenue---pays homage to the author of the 1964 treatise "Mississippi: The Closed Society" and chair of the Department of History from 1946 to 1957.
The late historian Dr. James W. Silver's children, (L-R) Bill, Betty and Gail, beside the plaque identifying Silver Pond, named for their father, a professor of American history at the University of Mississippi for more than 30 years.
Bright, one of the nation's foremost authorities on the U.S. Civil War and its legacy, speaks at UM's Gilder-Jordan Speaker Series in Southern Cultural History.
After delivering the Gilder-Jordan Southern Cultural History lecture, David Blight (far right) talks with UM Chancellor Dan Jones (far left) and professors of history Charles Reagan Wilson and April Holm.
Dr. Wilson, recipient of UM's Distinguished Research and Creative Achievement Award, is the Kelly Gene Cook Sr. Chair of History and Professor of Southern Studies, His most recent book is Flashes of a Southern Spirit.
Charles W. Eagles, William F. Winter Professor of History, received the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award and Lillian Smith Award for The Price of Defiance: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss and UM's Frist Student Service Award.