One-page document dated December 4, 1871 and drafted by the Mississippi State Legislature requesting return of Federal lands first granted in 1856 for the purpose of building the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad. The Gulf and Ship Island Railroad was...
A printed copy of an address by Thomas Smith Grimk’e at a religious meeting in Charleston, South Carolina on 29 March 1831. In his comments Grimk’e focuses upon the resolution of the American Sunday School Union on the issue of Sunday Schools...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Analysis of Senate bill 2988, the Internal Security Act of 1968, introduced to the Senate by Senator James Eastland. Thomas I. Emerson, professor at Yale University, deciphers the bill and its effects on all...
From the Maurer (John B.) Freedom Summer Photographs; The photograph shows Bebe, a cook at Thomas' Sundry, and Mr. and Mrs. Lamar Thomas, owners of Thomas' Sundry, posing in front of the Sundry in Batesville, Mississippi, in July 1964.
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; In this pamphlet published by the White Citizens' Council of Winona, Mississippi, Gillespie states that racial separation is the way to support racial harmony. He says that Soviet Communists are...
From the Maurer (John B.) Freedom Summer Photographs; The photograph shows a bread delivery to Thomas Sundry in Batesville, Mississippi, in July of 1964.
Photograph of Dr. Thomas Shoemaker, former Dean of Students and Director of Greek Life. Featured in the Talon, vol. 54, no. 4 (Spring 2001) on page 15.
From the Charles Ghigna Papers.; Hand-decorated necktie sent to Charles Ghigna by students at Thomas Street Elementary School in Tupelo, Mississippi (2000).
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An elephant dressed in a suit and wearing a "Nixon & Agnew" button sees the ghost of Tom Dewey sitting at the top of a stairway and holding a paper that says, "Remember '48." On...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in London by Thomas Nelson & Sons, circa 1860s. Title and imprint from cover. Part of the Nelson's oil colour picture books for the nursery series.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Richard Nixon looks excited at the large number of "telegrams and letters favorable to administration." He also has two feathers in his hat. The feathers are labeled, "Historic...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 17, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. This is the second part of an interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with...
Oral history. Interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. Brady was born on August 6, 1903, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. Labor leader George Meany is smoking a cigar that has exploded in his face. The smoke from the exploding cigar is labeled "Limited spending on unemployment." The end of the...
From the Maurer (John B.) Freedom Summer Photographs; The photograph shows Bebe, John B. Maurer, and Mrs. Lamar Thomas in front of Thomas' Sundry in Batesville, Mississippi.
From the Hardy (William H. and Sallie J.) Papers. Letter from Thomas H. Johnson, Sallie Hardy's father, to William Hardy. There is no transcript for this letter.
From the Hardy (William H. and Sallie J.) Papers. Letter from William Hardy to Sallie Hardy; written from Florence, Alabama. There is no transcript for this letter.
