History Is Lunch: "The Mississippi River and the Founding of the Nation"

At noon Wednesday, July 9, Susan Stearns, historian of the early American West and assistant professor of history at the University of Mississippi, will examine how trade on and along the Mississippi River during the United States’ earliest years set the stage for transforming the west as part of the History Is Lunch series. Stearns is the author of Empire of Commerce: The Closing of the Mississippi and the Opening of Atlantic Trade.

This program will take place in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Two Mississippi Museums and will also stream live on the MDAH Facebook page and YouTube channel. Copies of Empire of Commerce will be available for sale with a book signing to follow.

You may also like the following events from Mississippi Department of Archives & History:

• Next month, 19th July, 10:00 am, Beginning Genealogy: Using Online Resources in Jackson

Also check out other Arts events in Jackson, Literary Art events in Jackson.