Mississippi

In 1953, an influential cotton farmer from Mississippi on business in Chicago killed a young Black female college student on his last night in town after she refused his sexual advances. The murder was witnessed by several people, including the victim’s White classmate and friend....

This is celebrated architect Ken Tate’s creative memoir about his life....

Mississippi Central Josephine Findley, almost 18, had the poison selected and handy in the event she couldn’t handle another day, or even another...

Stephen A. King and Roger Davis Gatchet examine how Mississippi confronts its history of racial violence and injustice through civil rights tourism...

Read with your ears and listen with your heart. Travel through history with a streamZcast.com compendium of history and its myriad voices....

There could have been two defendants in the resulting case: James Ford Seale for kidnapping and murder, and the State of Mississippi for complicity....

I want to tell you a story about a place once called The Devil's Furnace. A place that dates its beginnings in prehistoric times. Where Indigenous people once lived and hunted. A place that's known massive bloodshed....

After graduating from West Point Military Academy, Mississippi-born Sam Lockwood was posted to far-away Arizona Territory, where he soon grew to love the hostile desert known as Apacheria....

Discover the Secrets of Successful Chicken Farming in Mississippi with "Feathered Prosperity" – Your Comprehensive Guide to Poultry Perfection! ...

Rivers in the Desert follows the remarkable career of William Mulholland, the visionary who engineered the rise of Los Angeles as the greatest American city west of the Mississippi....

Addie stands over a dead Peeping Tom, holding the murder weapon and refusing to explain. Did she kill him, or is she covering for someone? Her sister Claire stands between Addie and the death penalty....

At the National Council of Churches, Robert Spike organized American churches to support the passage of the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, to march in Selma and organize in Mississippi....

Charley Bates was an outsider. Always the third wheel to the Artful Dodger and Oliver Twists double-act in Fagins gang. Then he became the redeemed thief who managed to turn himself into the merriest young grazier in the whole of Northamptonshire.

A brilliant amalgam of remembrance and reportage....

Ten years ago, Julie Portland accidentally killed her best friend, Reba. What's worse is she got away with it....

Women are disappearing on the back roads of Lafayette County, Mississippi, which includes the city of Oxford, home to the University of Mississippi with its twenty thousand students.

A federal prosecutor in Mississippi for over 30 years, John Hailman routinely worked with federal agents, lawyers, judges, and criminals of every type imaginable. Now, he has opened even more of the astonishing cases within the over 35 boxes full of trial stories he carried into retirement....

The first presidential debate between Republican nominee Senator John McCain and Democratic nominee Senator Barack Obama took place at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi....

The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition by the United States of America of 828,000 square miles (2,140,000 sq km) of the French territory Louisiane in 1803....

The Medical Committee for Human Rights was organized in the summer of 1964 by medical professionals to provide care and support for Civil Rights activists....