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The Department of Archives and History is the second oldest state department of archives and history in the United States. [6] In 1902, Dunbar Rowland, an attorney and historian, was selected as the first Director of the department and served in that position until his death in 1937. [5][7] The Mississippi Department of Archives and History was ...
November 1, 1937. (1937-11-01) (aged 73) Jackson, Mississippi, U.S. Occupation (s) attorney, archivist, and historian. Dunbar Rowland (August 25, 1864 − November 1, 1937) was an American attorney, archivist, and historian. [1] He was Director of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History from its inception in 1902, until his death in ...
After a thirty-year hiatus, MHS was restarted in 1890 on the University of Mississippi campus in Oxford. On the campus, the society had closed meetings and it suffered from lack of resources for years until history professor Franklin Lafayette Riley Jr., with counsel from his academic mentor, Herbert Baxter Adams and other state educators, made efforts to revive the Mississippi Historical Society.
The museum opened December 9, 2017, in conjunction with the adjacent Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in celebration of Mississippi's bicentennial. [2] The theme of the history museum is "One Mississippi, Many Stories". [3] Both museums are administered by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH). [4]
From 2005 to 2016, Young served as Director of the Archives and Records Services Division at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. [6] She said, “There was really a desire to create a space where Mississippians can come together, examine their history and move forward as one."
The Mississippi Department of Archives and History designated the Bateville mounds as an official Mississippi Landmark on March 23, 1989. [6] Archeological excavations have suggested these specific mounds date to the Early to Middle Woodland period (500-1000 A.D).