Inadequate Cervical Cancer Prevention and Care for Black Women in the United States Mississippi Delta,” documents that state ...

While traveling through the South collecting music for the Library of Congress, ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax ventured onto ...

Over the next few years, the Department of Archives and History aims to revitalize some of the state's most beloved historical sites.

Thompson crosses the white plantation ecosystem and the Black ... Digging deep into the individual-meets-local-meets-global Mississippi Delta history, "The Barn" helps reckon with traumatic ...

Tennessee Williams stands as a titan of the American theatre, and for good reason. His fiery plays, about the American South ...

This spring the Lakeport Plantation Museum, an Arkansas State University Heritage Site, will host a reading retreat focusing ...

Mississippi is a state rich with history. From the northern corners, to the Delta, to the coast ... In 1890, the sprawling Windsor Plantation was marred by a fire, leaving only 29 large columns ...

In the "Cowboy Carter Chronicles," Digital Producer Jyesha Johnson explores Beyoncé's groundbreaking impact on country music and its historical ties to Black culture. Beyoncé's album, "Cowboy Carter," ...

Carolyn Bryant, the daughter of a plantation manager and a nurse ... the heart of the cotton-growing Mississippi Delta. They had two sons and lived in two small rooms in the back of the store.

As guitars became more affordable through retailers like Sears, Roebuck and Co, African-American sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta and other ... visiting plantations like Dockery and Stovall ...

The story of Black History Month begins in 1915. At this time, scholar Carter G. Woodson founded what today is called the ...