At noon on Wednesday, April 2, Andy Taggart, Mark Garriga, Brad White, Jan Rasch, and Lisa Ireland will present "The Legacy of Kirk Fordice: His Politics, His Policies, and His People"” as part of the History Is Lunch series. Panelists Andy Taggart, Mark Garriga, Brad White, Jan Rasch, and Lisa Ireland—each of whom worked closely with Fordice— will explore the impact of Mississippi’s first Republican governor since Reconstruction regarding his leadership style and key policy initiatives. Taggart served as Fordice's former chief of staff, and White is the current director of the Mississippi Department of Transportation. The program will take place in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Two Mississippi Museums and will stream live on the MDAH Facebook page and YouTube channel. For more information, call 601-576-6850 or email info@mdah.ms.gov.
At noon on Wednesday, April 15, Robert Colby, assistant professor of history at the University of Mississippi, will discuss the intersections of slavery, capitalism, the Civil War, and emancipation as part of the History Is Lunch series. Colby’s book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South, explores the place of the peculiar institution in the Confederate mind