African American History
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Podcast Episode: The Music in the Piney Woods
Pip: There's a version of Mississippi music history that fits neatly on a poster — Delta,…
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The Music in the Piney Woods
Newton County, the Great Migration, and the Music That Went North When we think about Mississippi…
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Podcast Episode: The Story We Can’t Finish: The Death of Mack Treadwell
Pip: Sometimes a single scrap of newsprint is the only thing standing between a person and…
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The Story We Can’t Finish: The Death of Mack Treadwell
How One Newspaper Clipping Preserved a Tragedy—but Not the Ending “Genealogy teaches us that not every…
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Podcast Episode: “I Remember Being Sold”
Pip: There's a particular kind of history that doesn't live in courthouse files — it lives…
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“I Remember Being Sold”
Nancy Watkins Evans and the Last Living Memories of Slavery in Newton County “Memory is history…
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Podcast Episode: “We Lost Our House for $100”
Pip: Census records can tell you a family lived somewhere in 1930 and somewhere else in…
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“We Lost Our House for $100”
An Oral History of Survival During the Great Depression in Newton County, Mississippi “History lives not…
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Podcast Episode: From Mississippi to Chicago’s West Side: The Unspoken Toll of the Great Migratio
Pip: A single line in a family tree — "1951, moved to Chicago" — holds a…
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From Mississippi to Chicago’s West Side: The Unspoken Toll of the Great Migration
What One 1992 Interview Reveals About the Dreams—and Heartbreak—of Mississippi’s Northern Migrants Between 1915 and 1970,…