February 8, 2010
MDAH Launches Year-long Territorial Records Project
The Department of Archives and History has begun a year-long, $100,000 project that will help ensure irreplaceable historical documents in the state's oldest counties will be properly preserved for future generations.
Historical Society to Meet in Gulfport March 4–6
The Gulf Coast and its recovery after Hurricane Katrina's devastation is the focus of the Mississippi Historical Society's 2010 annual meeting in Gulfport.
4th Mississippi Infantry Civil War Flag Restored
Thanks to the efforts of a local group, another historic Civil War flag from the MDAH Museum Division collection has been conserved. More than $80,000 has been donated by the Mississippi Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans through the "Save the Battleflags" program. Ten historic flags have been conserved with the funding, and funds continue to be raised for work on additional flags.
Program Series, on Thursday, February 11 at 6:30 p.m. Brad Lieb, special assistant in Cultural Affairs under the Chickasaw Nation's Division of History and Culture, will present "The Natchez Indian Refuge Among the Chickasaws" in the Grand Village of the Natchez Indians auditorium.