Local & Family History
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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: what’s in a name?
Pip: Our Unique Stories — where a birth certificate is a breadcrumb and a name is…
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what’s in a name?
How African American Families Preserved Their History Through Naming Traditions “A name is more than an…
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Podcast Episode: The “Robbery” at Hickory: Looking Again at a 1923 Account
Pip: Our Unique Stories has a way of finding the cases where the official version and…
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Podcast Episode: The Gate and the Overgrowth: Why We Can’t Let Shubuta’s Hanging Bridge Vanish
Pip: There's a gate on a road in Mississippi that doesn't just block a path —…
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The Gospel and the Iron Horse: The Coal Chute Baptism of 1933
The Gospel and the Iron Horse: The Coal Chute Baptism of 1933 In the summer of…
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The Anchor and the Ink: The Quiet Architecture of Survival
A Mother’s Day Reflection on the Black Women of Newton County (1870–1940) The Story the Records…