Manuscripts, correspondence, photographs and the writer’s residence—
Rowan Oak—make up just a fraction of the university's Faulkner collection.
UM archaeologists are partnering with other institutions to create the Mississippi Mounds Trail, linking a chain of Indian mounds down Old Highway 61.
The UM Center for the Study of Southern Culture proudly debuts The Mississippi Encyclopedia.
A yearlong commemoration of James Meredith’s enrollment as the university’s first African-American student remembered the past and looked to the future.
Media & Documentary Projects researches, documents and preserves the stories of Mississippi and the broader South.
The markers of the Mississippi Blues Trail highlight places, people and events linked the history of the Blues.
The Southern Foodways Alliance preserves and documents the stories behind Southern food.
Keeping Faulkner’s LegacyThe works of Nobel Prize-winning writer William Faulkner made their way around the globe decades ago, delivering Mississippi stories to the world’s readers through more than a dozen languages. But 50 years after the author’s death, it’s thanks in part to the University of Mississippi that his fans are still able to, in a sense, come to him. “A great deal of his legacy has now fallen ...
Mapping Mississippi’s PrehistoryWhile Mississippi’s music, literature and heritage draw visitors for what they can experience today, a new collaborative project will invite them to experience the Mississippi of a thousand years ago. Archaeologists at the University of Mississippi are partnering with researchers at three other institutions to create the Mississippi Mounds Trail, linking a chain of Indian mounds down Old Highway 61 from Memphis to Woodville. “The information we ...
Mississippi: A to ZFrom basketball player Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf to motivational speaker Zig Ziglar, there’s a lot more to Mississippi than meets the eye. It’s with the goal of offering as broad a view as possible of the Magnolia State that the UM Center for the Study of Southern Culture debuts The Mississippi Encyclopedia, set for publication in 2014. “This will be the first book of its kind in a hundred ...
Opening the Closed Society: 50 Years of IntegrationFor many years after the bloody riot that marked James Meredith's arrival on campus, the legacy of 1962 seemed like a burden to be overcome. Today, it's a legacy Ole Miss carries with open hands, as a steward for the future. "I think that our institution has more responsibility than any in the state for trying to lead Mississippi forward in race relations," said ...
Telling Mississippi StoriesThe university’s work in researching, documenting and preserving the stories of Mississippi and the broader South finds its crossroads in Media & Documentary Projects. A division of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, affiliated with the Meek School of Journalism and New Media, SouthDocs works both in cooperation with other campus departments and in projects of its own initiative. “Our mantra is to tell stories ...
The Blues and BeyondWhat makes a place or person worthy to be noticed, studied, even memorialized? For music scholars at the University of Mississippi, there’s more to it than the usual qualifications of wealth, power and prominence. Through enterprises like Living Blues magazine, the Highway 61 radio show and the Mississippi Blues Trail, they’re delving deeply into the stories of humble men and women who turned struggle and sorrow ...
The Meaning Behind the MealFor all the riches to be found in the poor man’s music, there are as many stories to be sliced and savored at the Southern table. The study of food today as a fresh window into culture, history and society parallels the work of music scholars a generation ago, said John T. Edge, director of the UM-based nonprofit Southern Foodways Alliance. “For a long time, we as ...