From the Spight (Thomas) Letters. Letter from Thomas Spight to Virginia Barnett, dated 15 June 1862, written from camp near Tupelo, Mississippi. Spight, a member of the 34th Mississippi Infantry during the Civil War, writes to his cousin and future...
From the Spight (Thomas) Letters. Undated letter from Thomas Spight to Virginia Barnett. Spight, a member of the 34th Mississippi Infantry during the Civil War, writes to his cousin and future wife about his desire to marry her and about joining...
From the Spight (Thomas) Letters. Letter from Thomas Spight to Virginia Barnett, dated 14 December 1860, written from camp near Corinth, Mississippi. Spight, a member of the 34th Mississippi Infantry during the Civil War, writes to his cousin and...
From the Spight (Thomas) Letters. Letter from Mrs. F.A. Barnett to her daughter Virginia Barnett, who is visiting relatives. In this letter written from Ripley, Mississippi, and dated 25 June 1858, Mrs. Barnett writes about family matters and news...
From the Spight (Thomas) Letters. Letter from Thomas Spight to Virginia Barnett, dated 11 March 1863, written from camp near the 34th MS Regiment. Spight, a member of the 34th Mississippi Infantry during the Civil War, writes to his cousin and...
From the Spight (Thomas) Letters. Letter from Thomas Spight to Virginia Barnett, dated 7 January 1861, written from Bowling Green, Kentucky. Spight, a member of the 34th Mississippi Infantry during the Civil War, writes to his cousin and future...
From the Spight (Thomas) Letters. Letter from Thomas Spight to Virginia Barnett, dated 13 April 1864, written from camp near Dalton, Tennessee. Spight, a member of the 34th Mississippi Infantry during the Civil War, writes to his cousin and future...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo from Virginia Steele, co-coordinator of the Mississippi Summer Project libraries, to librarians, dated August 7, 1964. Steele requests the attendance of library workers at a meeting...
A document issued in Richmond announcing Virginia Governor Letcher's appointment of Joseph C. Lawrence of New York City to a two-year term as a New York State Commissioner for the Commonwealth of Virginia.
From the Smith (William G.) Civil War Military Commissions. This military commissions for William G. Smith, dated 19 December 1862, promotes him to First Lieutenant in the Ninth Infantry Regiment of Virginia Volunteers in the service of the United...
From the Smith (William G.) Civil War Military Commissions. This military commissions for William G. Smith, dated 2 May 1862, promotes him to Second Lieutenant in the Ninth Infantry Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, in the service of the United...
Photograph of Golden Eagles basketball fans at a game. One holds (or is playing) a trombome. Another has a paper bag over his head with holes cut out for eyes; on the bag is written "Hokie fan" [Virginia Tech?]. Several fans hold newspapers....
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...
A collection of eight interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 19, 2009 with John Dubuisson, Chief of Police in Pass Christian, Mississipi. Mr. Dubuisson discusses his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on April 26, 2006 with Ursula Daxecker. A native of Austria, Daxecker came to New Orleans as a graduate student. After her home was flooded in Hurricane Katrina, Daxecker moved to Northern Virginia. She has...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 19, 2009 with George Bass, Chief of Long Beach Fire Department. He talks about losing his home and his other experiences in Long Beach during and after Hurricane Katrina.
A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...
A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...
