- Public History: This course will introduce students to the field, theory, and practice of public history. It explores history and memory, how to communicate with different publics, controversies in the field, new media and digital humanities, historic preservation and cultural-resources management, and museum work.
- Digital History: This course will examine the evolution of digital technologies as they have been applied to the practice and study of history in the last 20 years. We will investigate different methodologies, evaluating their effectiveness in assisting in the process of conducting or sharing the creation of "history" with both academics and the public.
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Opinions of Mr. Meredith
Kathleen McGuire
"Opinions of Mr. Meredith" is an ongoing, collaborative StoryMap built by students in Dr. Kathleen McGuire's HST 460 Public History Course. To date, the map has entries from students in the Fall 2023 and Fall 2024 terms.
"As students in Dr. Kathleen McGuire's Public History class, we were tasked with selecting and transcribing one "sympathetic" (pro integration) and one "unsympathetic" (anti integration) letter in the James Howard Meredith Collection of the Archives and Special Collections at the J.D. Williams Library at the University of Mississippi. These are our findings from the small sample of letters."
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M.B. Mayfield Heritage Trail Walking Tour
Ellie Davis, James Geiger, Samantha Rice, Brittany Ellis, Abigail Browning, Walker Bray, Katie Kerrigan, Sara Grevy, Josh Cielencki, and Jeannie Speck-Thompson
Discover sites related to the life and art of M.B. Mayfield, an African American artist who was educated in secret at a pre-integration University of Mississippi.
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F. A. P. Barnard, Slavery, and the University of Mississippi
Reagan Whittington
Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard served as a professor at the University of Mississippi and then as its president, or chancellor, from 1856 to 1860. Being northern-born and educated, Barnard grew up and went to school in places where slavery had been ended legally long before the Civil War, though racial tensions and violence against Black people still existed in these areas. He arrived in the South in the 1840s, having only ever lived in "free" states, and entered the slavery-centric plantocracy. Due to the fact he had a foot in both camps, with his northern "free" state background contrasting with his southern slave-owning career, Barnard had a complicated relationship with the "slavery question."
Barnard's own views on slavery were put on trial when he decided to punish a white student for raping and brutally beating one of the enslaved women he owned, Jane, in 1859. During this time, however, it was not legal to rely on the testimony of an enslaved person since they did not count as citizens, but as property. H.R. Branham, a physician and Board of Trustees Member at the University of Mississippi, took this opportunity to accuse Barnard of being "unsound on the slavery question," in order to threaten his credibility and possibly push him out of the university completely. As a result of this accusation, Barnard faced heavy criticism from his peers and his career in Oxford was jeopardized. Barnard won out in the end, earning the favor of the majority of the Board of Trustees after declaring his allegiance to the South and slavery in no uncertain terms. But his stay in Oxford came to an end with the outbreak of the Civil War, when he left both his position and the state for good. Thereafter, Barnard went on to become the longest-serving president of Columbia College, now University, and Barnard College was subsequently founded and named in his honor after his death. Barnard has an enormous reputation in nineteenth-century academia and also occupies an important place in the history of the University of Mississippi.
By studying Barnard in this chronological and geographic-based format, we can better understand what the "slavery" question meant in and outside of the slave-holding South. Since Barnard is a figure who spent a great deal of time as a northerner in the South, he is a good example of how complicated white racial attitudes in nineteenth-century America really were. The North was not an abolitionist Utopia, exemplified by Barnard's easy transition into slave-holding. Barnard was also embroiled in one of the most scandalous conflicts at the University of Mississippi since its inception, so it's important to know his background and life details to better understand the infamous Branham Affair and all its nuances.
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The Road to the Vote- Women's Suffrage: Timeline
Annabelle Botts
The tale of women taking the bull by the horns, demanding equality, and fighting for the right to vote.
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Sites of Black Student Experience at UM Walking Tour
Reagan Stone, Brianne Saunders, Constance Hartline, Grace Kaim, and Reagan Whittington
A walking tour of locations on the University of Mississippi campus central to Black students' experience.
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United States and The War on Drugs: Timeline
Ethan Wanat
I will use this timeline to show the evolution of the United States and the federal governments campaign against illegal drug trade.
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New Orleans' Red Light District(s): Map
Reagan Whittington
This is a StoryMap about prostitution in New Orleans from 1880-1930.
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Prostitution in New Orleans from 1860 to 1930: Timeline
Reagan Whittington
This timeline explores how the practice of prostitution in the city of New Orleans changed and was affected by the Civil War, Reconstruction, European trends, national attitudes about prostitution, the Great Depression, and both World Wars over a seventy year time period.
