As World War II slipped into the Cold War, the US...  ...eologic requirements pointed to the salt domes of Mississippi as a possible site for an underground detonation...  ...onducted two years later. Read about the nukes of Mississippi at Atlas Obscura. (Image source: Mississippi...

Potential entrepreneurs are always given this conc...  ...fulfill it. Chinese immigrants who settled in the Mississippi Delta a hundred years ago saw an economic opportu...

Mississippi 's first insane asylum was established in 1855 in...  ...all, but it wasn't great. Like many asylums, the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum became a warehouse for peopl...  ...ginal location became a part of the University of Mississippi with new buildings erected on...

Earlier this week, John told us about the Camels o...  ...pictures of the Cedar Hill Cemetery in Vicksburg, Mississippi , where the camel named Old Douglas, of Company A...  ...amed Old Douglas, of Company A of the Forty-third Mississippi Infantry, is honored with a marker. From Wikipedi...  ...tury.”(Imag...

It was a big weekend for alligator hunting in Miss...  ...s crew were chasing a very large alligator in the Mississippi River near Port Gibson. They were able to shoot t...  ...t, those weren't the only gator records broken in Mississippi . Earlier in the weekend, Brandon “Boo&rdquo...

Well, it's about time! The state of Mississippi has finally ratified the 13th Amendment...  ...ng started when Dr. Ranjan Batra of University of Mississippi Medical Center saw Steven Spielberg's f...  ...-Jackson, who had been upset to learn Mississippi was t...

For the fifth year running, Mississippi clinched yet another unwanted distinction of bein...  ...eing the fattest state of 2010. A whopping 70% of Mississippians are overweight, with more than 33% of them being...

One way to keep oil from the Gulf of Mexico from c...  ...n. Scientists think rerouting a small part of the Mississippi river would do the trick, at least temporarily. A...  ...t water were directed instead to the mouth of the Mississippi , the marshlands would be flooded with fresh water...  ...lace soon, becau...

Yesterday, students at the University of Mississippi voted to update their image with a new mascot. Th...