Dr. Susannah J. Ural will open the traveling exhibit Freedom: A History of US with her talk Civil War Era Mississippians Debate America’s Founding Principles on Tuesday, April 7 at 12 noon at the downtown branch of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System. The Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi (CWRGM) project is a collection of the state’s … Continued

Dr. Christian Pinnen will present Spanish Dons in Colonial Mississippi: The Spanish roots of Mississippi’s Cotton Kingdom on Thursday, April 16 at 12 noon at the downtown branch of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System. Spain has a short, but important part in Mississippi’s history. Between 1779 and 1798, Spanish administrators sought to wrangle profits and people in … Continued