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
Famous quotes containing the words history of, history and/or mississippi:
“What is most interesting and valuable in it, however, is not the materials for the history of Pontiac, or Braddock, or the Northwest, which it furnishes; not the annals of the country, but the natural facts, or perennials, which are ever without date. When out of history the truth shall be extracted, it will have shed its dates like withered leaves.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to minister to his sensual pleasures, to be instrumental in promoting his comfort; but never has he desired to elevate her to that rank she was created to fill. He has done all he could to debase and enslave her mind; and now he looks triumphantly on the ruin he has wrought, and say, the being he has thus deeply injured is his inferior.”
—Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)
“Listen, my friend, I’ve just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.”
—Patrick Buchanan (b. 1938)