Mississippi historian David Sansing dies at age 86
David Sansing, a professor emeritus of history at the University of Mississippi and author of several books, has died at age 86. Sansing fell Friday at his home in Oxford and died
Students, faculty react to Confederate monument resolutions
All four campus government organizations of the university’s shared governance have passed resolutions in the past several weeks calling for the relocation of the Confederate monument from the Circle to the Confederate
Ole Miss Confederate monument: Sparks releases first statement ahead of faculty senate, Staff Council votes
Updated: 7:20 p.m. Thursday The university faculty senate passed its resolution calling for the relocation of the Confederate monument in the Circle to the Confederate cemetery on campus with a unanimous vote
OPINION: Why support the Confederate monument
Christianity has long been guilty of the sin of white supremacy. Slave ships had chaplains. Plantation owners “converted” their slaves to Christianity. Churches have long been some of the most segregated spaces
Opinion: Statue opinion must be challenged
In the heart of Oxford there stands a statue of a lone soldier who stares in perpetuity over the place which he once died for. For more than 100 years, the soldier has
Opinion: The University Greys: students, soldiers, sons of slaveholders
As secession fever swept the Slave South, young white men joined state militias en masse. By May 1861, only four months after Mississippi leaders declared secession, almost every student enrolled at the