Norvel Lee was first introduced to the public and rose to prominence after he won the light heavyweight gold medal for boxing ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

Robert Colby is a historian at the University of Mississippi. His first book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil ...

If there is one general that could be considered as having single-handedly lost the Civil War for the Confederates, it’s John ...

Mississippi is one of two states that recognizes Martin Luther King Junior Day as a dual holiday, shared with Robert E. Lee.