2024 Annual Meeting Agenda

Mississippi Historical Society
February 22-23, 2024
The Inn at Ole Miss - Oxford

Thursday, February 22

All sessions are at the Inn at Ole Miss in Oxford. Early registration is $60 for MHS members and $95 for non-members. Registration after Friday, February 16, 2024, is $85 for MHS members and $120 for nonmembers.

Thank you to our partner, the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi!

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10:30 a.m.  Registration

11:00 a.m.  Annual Business Meeting 

12:00 p.m.  Opening Session and Luncheon 

  • Presiding: Will Bowlin, President, Mississippi Historical Society
  • Welcome: Katie McKee, Director, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi
  • Keynote Speaker: Ralph Eubanks, Faculty Fellow, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi

2:30 p.m.  Session I – How History Teachers Teach Difficult Subjects

  • Von Gordon, Executive Director & Youth Engagement Manager, The Alluvial Collective

3:45 p.m.  Break

4:00 p.m.  Session II – Panel on Student Research in Mississippi History

  • One City, Two Occupations: Corinth Mississippi under Confederate and Union Military Occupation - Andrew Boldt, PhD candidate, University of Mississippi 
  • Cracking the Closet Door: Same-sex Relationships in Greek Letter Societies - Paul Mora, PhD candidate, University of Mississippi
  • I Paint My Memories: The Legacy of Mr. M.B. Mayfield’s Art - Jeannie M. Speck-Thompson, PhD candidate, University of Mississippi

5:30 p.m.  President's Happy Hour

6:30 p.m.  Banquet and Remarks from Book of the Year Award Winner

  • Presiding: Rebecca Tuuri, Vice President, Mississippi Historical Society
  • Journal of Mississippi History Article of the Year Award presented to William R. Sutton for "The Friars Point Coup and Aftermath:  Historical Memory and Personal Character in the Era of Redemption"
  • Book of the Year Award Presentation: Anne Marshall, Executive Director, Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, Mississippi State University
  • Award Winner: In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning by Grace Elizabeth Hale, Commonwealth Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Virginia

Friday, February 23

9:00 a.m.  Session III – Behind the Big House: Telling a More Complete History  

  • Jodi Skipper, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Southern Studies, University of Mississippi

10:15 a.m.  Break

10:30 a.m.  Session IV – Findings from the University of Mississippi Slavery Research Group 

  • Jeffrey T. Jackson, Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Mississippi
  • Charles K. Ross, Professor of History and African American Studies, University of Mississippi
  • Don Guillory, PhD student in history, University of Mississippi
  • Rhondalyn Peairs, MA student in Southern Studies, University of Mississippi

12:00 p.m.  Awards Luncheon 

  • Presiding: Will Bowlin, President, Mississippi Historical Society
  • Presentation of Awards
    • Lifetime Achievement
    • Awards of Merit
    • Excellence in History
    • Outstanding Local Historical Society
    • Teacher of the Year
                                     
  • Introduction of President-elect and passing of the gavel

2:00 p.m.  Historic Tours

  • Burns-Belfry Museum
  • L.Q.C. Lamar House
  • Rowan Oak
  • University of Mississippi Campus Tour