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Historical Society Conference March 3-5
The 2016 Mississippi Historical Society annual meeting will focus on preserving Mississippi history from the points of view of two professions—archivists and historians. Attendees will be able to choose in-depth presentations from between these two tracks. The conference will be held March 3-5 in Jackson.
“We are excited with what has been accomplished by partnerships between archivists, historians, and students from Phi Alpha Theta,” said Dennis J. Mitchell president of the Mississippi Historical Society. “We hope that these relationships provide a unique view for meeting attendees and that these relationships can continue into the future.”
At the Friday luncheon Victoria E. Bynum will present “The Free State of Jones: Legend, History, and—Soon—a Movie.” Bynum is distinguished professor emeritus of history at
Texas State University-San Marcos, and author of The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War.
“I look forward to speaking to the Mississippi Historical Society about this fascinating Civil War insurrection and postwar mixed-race community that has long been misunderstood— or simply unknown—by most of the public,” said Bynum. “The true story of the Free State of Jones challenges the very core of Lost Cause history, bringing to life white landowning, non-slaveholding families who acted aggressively in their own interests—interests that did not coincide with those of slaveholders.”
Participants can tour the Eudora Welty House and Garden and the Medgar Evers Home Museum on Friday afternoon.
In February the society will announce the winner of the McLemore Prize for best Mis-
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sissippi History book, and that author will be the keynote speaker at the banquet on Friday evening.
Saturday, March 5, will consist of the Phi Alpha Theta student research presentations as well as a Local History Matters panel discussing the history of the King Edward Hotel and downtown Jackson.
The Bet-tersworth Award for outstanding history teacher and other awards will be presented Saturday afternoon.
Rooms are reserved for Thursday evening, March 3 and Friday evening, March 4 at the
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King Edward Hotel, 235 West Capitol Street in Jackson, 601 -353-5464. When making reservations, be sure to specify the MHS rate of $ 1 2 9 plus tax for a single room and $139 plus tax for a double room per night. Deadline for reservations is February 18. For annual meeting attendees who are not staying at the King Edward, daily event parking will be available at a current rate of $7.00 plus tax per day. For more information call 601-576-6849 or email mhs@mdah.state.ms.us.
MDAH Online Teacher Resources Win Award
United States Army officer identification card from the World War II Home Front in Mississippi teaching unit on the MDAH website.
The Mississippi Department of Archives and History received the silver award in the Digital Education category of the Southeast Museums Conferences’s inaugural Technology Competition. The SEMC’s annual meeting was held in Jacksonville, Florida in October. MDAH education director Stacey Everett and assistant director Claire Gwaltney accepted the award for their online teaching unit The World War II Home Front in Mississippi.
The teaching unit is one of five available on MDAH’s website. Others include Civil Rights in Mississippi, Freedom Riders: Journey for Change, Slavery in Mississippi, Winterville Mounds,
and the Native American Mis-sissippian World. More than forty single-day lesson plans on a variety of topics are also available.
MDAH has developed
these classroom lesson plans and teaching units for teachers of grades K-12. All include primary source materials and are interdisciplinary in nature. Each unit and plan is also
based on the Mississippi Department of Education Frameworks and Common Core Curriculum.
“These teaching units are great resources for all educators in the state,” Everett said. “We hope everyone will take advantage of them.”
The Southeastern Museums Conference (SEMC) is a nonprofit membership organization of museums, museum staff, independent professionals, and corporate partners. SEMC aims to provide opportunities for educational development and improve the interchange of ideas.
SEMC created the competition to recognize excellence in the use of technology by southeastern museums.