The monument is much like any other. It is white marble with a rounded top, standing several feet high and on a broad base. Attached to...
Wednesday marks 75th anniversary of the official end of World War II, the deadliest conflict in the history of the world. Wednesday’s commemorations included a small...
It was a nice duplex on Robinson Road in Jackson. Linda Bilbo was a real estate agent, and she had the house built. She occupied one...
In Mississippi history, the name Mary Dawson Cain will be remembered as the first woman in the state to run for the office of governor. To...
He was a familiar figure on Vicksburg streets in the 1970s and 1980s, perhaps before and beyond those times, and folks called the street preacher “Rev,”...
He looked more like a Southern planter, in his pin-striped suit and broad-brimmed felt hat, than an emperor, but when Dom Pedro II of Brazil arrived...
Robert Gilmore “R.G.” LeTourneau, founder of the LeTourneau Corporation, was a prolific inventor. At one time, as many as 2,000 people were employed at the company’s...
Mother always said her cousin Gussie was a character — and that might be an understatement. Gussie was Mother’s favorite cousin. She was born, raised and...
“William Rufus King” was my answer. Some friends and I were swapping stories about the vice presidents of the United States. I was asked what vice...
Cannon fire broke the quiet of the night as shells passed over the bow of the steamboat. It wasn’t Charleston harbor and Fort Sumter in April...
