From the Map Collection. A map of the Pacific ocean with California and part of Mexico on the right, and Japan and the Philippines on the left. Two southern routes are drawn across the map and labeled "Commodore Anson's Track from Acapulco to...
From the Map Collection. A map of the island. Marked are The East Bay, The Spout, Cumberland Bay, The West Bay, and Sugar-loaf Bay, Monkey Key, and Goat Island. Areas of fine sand and fine dark sand are indicated. Scale of two leagues.
From the Map Collection. A map of a settlement with a road and multiple structures. The legend describes the use of certain structures. Scale of forty poles.
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. An outline of Europe and Great Britain, plus latitude and longitude lines, is shown on Richard Nixon's forehead. The cartoon caption reads, "Brow wrinkled with care."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Paul Carmack. Two groups of people push on opposite sides of a giant globe with latitude and longitude lines. The globe is labeled, "Today's world." The larger group, on the left side, is...
cartoon by Eddie Germano; The world is depicted as a short man with latitude and longitude lines on his head and suit. The world is at a store that sells assorted weapons that could cause mass destruction. The storekeeper holds a sign that...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. At the bottom of the cartoon is part of the Earth, with an outline of the U.S. apparent against the lines of latitude and longitude. A man without facial features is dressed in...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. This cartoon has two parts. In one part, President Lyndon Johnson in Western clothing sits at his desk at the LBJ Ranch in Texas. The desk has many scattered papers and a rustic...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Menachem Begin is building a platform on a wooden structure that extends outward from planet Earth. The earth is seen as a globe with latitude and longitude lines, and other planets in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 1, 1972 with Dr. Aaron Henry in his drugstore in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Henry was born on July 2, 1922 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. After serving in World War II, he went to Xavier College (now Xavier...
Oral history.; Dr. Forest Kent Wyatt was born on May 27, 1934, in Berea, Kentucky. He graduated from Delta State College (now Delta State University) with a double degree in mathematics and health, physical education, and recreation. He then began...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 4, 1993 with Joseph E. Wroten (born 1925). Mr. Wroten became famous as one of only two Mississippi House Representatives who voted in favor of allowing blacks to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 26, 1975 with Earl W. Banks, 1905-1986. He enrolled at Alcorn University in Lorman, Mississippi, for one year, then transferred to Jackson State University where he completed high school. He continued...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 14, 1995 with Eldridge W. Steptoe Jr. (born 1936). Mr. Steptoe witnessed his father's involvement in the McComb movement of the early 1950s and in the establishing of a local chapter of the NAACP in...
Oral history.; Discusses Murchison's time spent in the United States Army. Particularly focuses on his participation in the Vietnamese Conflict. During that time, Murchison served both as an adviser and in an actual unit. He received a number of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 26, 1979 with Mr. William J. Simmons at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Simmons was born in 1916 in Utica, Mississippi. He attended Millsaps College and Mississippi College, graduating from the...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on August 20, 1997 and August 28, 1997 with Peter H. Stewart (born 1934). He began teaching school in Edwards, Mississippi, in the fall of 1961. In August 1969, he worked for Friends of Children, a Head Start...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 11, 1977 with the Honorable Horace Buckley at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Buckley was born on July 14, 1941 in Jackson, Mississippi. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Mississippi Valley...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on September 23, 2009 with Robert Weaver, the Sand Beach Director and Roads Manager for Harrison County, who describes the 2005 hurricane season's destruction across the American South.
