The Heritage of Mississippi Series, published jointly by MDAH, the Mississippi Historical Society, and the University Press of Mississippi, with funding assistance from the Phil Hardin Foundation, covers the history of the state as part of the celebration of Mississippi’s bicentennial.
Nine volumes in the series have been published:
- Art in Mississippi: 1720–1980 by Patti Carr Black
- Religion in Mississippi by Randy J. Sparks
- Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race: Mississippi after Reconstruction, 1877–1917 by Stephen Cresswell
- Mississippi and the Civil War: The Home Front by Timothy B. Smith
- The Civil War in Mississippi: Major Campaigns and Battles by Michael B. Ballard
- Mississippi’s American Indians by James F. Barnett, Jr.
- A Literary History of Mississippi, edited by Lorie Watkins
- A Borrowed Land: Colonial Mississippi by Christian Pinnen and Charles A. Weeks
- Old Southwest to Old South: Mississippi, 1798-1840 by James Michael Bunn and Clay Williams
To order volumes from the series, contact the Mississippi Museum Store at (601) 576-6921.
Commissioned volumes include these two:
- Reconstruction in Mississippi by Jere Nash (manuscript due in 2024, publication in 2025)
- The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi by Charles C. Bolton (manuscript due in 2026, publication in 2027)
Members of the Board of Editors of the Heritage of Mississippi Series were:
- John F. Marszalek, Chair
- Katie Blount
- Elbert R. Hilliard
- Peggy W. Jeanes
- Michael Vinson Williams
- Charles Reagan Wilson
- Christine Wilson