Devil's Punchbowl refugee camp for freed slaves during Civil War is misdescribed as 'concentration camp'
The Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black ...
The Civil War Lives Through Mark Twain’s Fiction—and Donald Trump’s Reality
The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...
This church in a MS ghost town has a cannonball stuck in it. How did it get there?
A cannonball is lodged in a historic Mississippi church, but was it fired by the Civil War gunboat USS Rattler?
After years of neglect, an Illinois village with ties to Abraham Lincoln is getting a refresh
The tiny central Illinois village of New Salem, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did ...
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Gutting the Education Department abandons America’s past, present, future
After Trump’s executive order, readers discuss how the Education Department has influenced U.S. students.
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Events happening this weekend in Mississippi: March 28-30
Take some time to unwind with friends, family or yourself this weekend. Below you’ll find a list of some fun events going on this weekend (March 28-30) around Mississippi.