History of Mississippi

History Of Mississippi

The state of Mississippi's history goes back beyond American statehood to ancient Native American times.

Read more about History Of Mississippi:  Native Americans, European Colonial Period, Territory and Statehood, Ante-Bellum, Civil War, Reconstruction, Gilded Age: 1877-1900, Progressive Era, 1920s and 1930s, World War II, 1945-2000, Since 2000, Literature

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    The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.
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    We don’t know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don’t understand our name at all, we don’t know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.
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