Unheard Voices in War, Freedom, and Uneasy Peace: The Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi Project

FAIN: PW-290542-23

Mississippi State University (Mississippi State, MS 39762-5227)
Susannah Ural (Project Director: July 2022 to present)

The transcription and annotation of the papers of Mississippi state governors from 1859 to 1882, including official correspondence, military telegrams, and letters and petitions from the public. 

The Civil War and Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi Project (CWRGM) is an open-access digital documentary edition of over 20,000 documents from the state's governors'' papers spanning nine administrations from 1859 through John Marshall Stone's first term (1876-1882). As of July 2022, our Omeka-S-based website provides free access to nearly 7,000 documents that include digital document files, metadata, transcriptions, enhanced subject tagging, a full index, and additional annotations. We are committed to completing this project over a ten-year period that began in 2020. With this in mind, CWRGM is seeking a three-year NEH Humanities Collections and Reference Resources (HCRR) grant of $349,862 to provide critical funding for the next three years of this project. We are a past recipient of NEH HCRR support (2020-2023) and we are proud to report that we are meeting our objectives despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.