July 14, 2025

Civil War

Historian Bennett Parten Visits Off Square Books for “Somewhere Toward Freedom,” A Brilliant Reframing of a Seminal Moment in Civil War History: Sherman’s March Bennett-Parten

Historian Bennett Parten Visits Off Square Books for “Somewhere Toward Freedom,” A Brilliant Reframing of a Seminal Moment in Civil War History: Sherman’s March

TLV News January 29, 2025
Thursday, January 30 at 5:30 pm Off Square Books  Author and historian Bennett Parten in conversation with...
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National Parks Services Names University of Mississippi Instructor to Humanities Fellowship: Research to Focus on African American Experience in Vicksburg after Civil War   Beth-Kruse

National Parks Services Names University of Mississippi Instructor to Humanities Fellowship: Research to Focus on African American Experience in Vicksburg after Civil War  

University of Mississippi June 22, 2023
For the next two years, University of Mississippi history instructor Beth Kruse will live and work in Vicksburg, delving...
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Photo of the Week: Workers Moving the Confederate Monument at Ole Miss from The Circle to the Confederate Cemetery 2020-07-15-Confederate Statue Moved

Photo of the Week: Workers Moving the Confederate Monument at Ole Miss from The Circle to the Confederate Cemetery

TLV News July 16, 2020
Workers at the University of Mississippi moved the Confederate Memorial from The Circle on the Ole Miss...
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University of Mississippi Professor John Neff’s Door was Always Open: Noted Civil War Scholar and Professor Remembered for Approachable Nature and Devotion to Students Neff-1-750

University of Mississippi Professor John Neff’s Door was Always Open: Noted Civil War Scholar and Professor Remembered for Approachable Nature and Devotion to Students

TLV News February 17, 2020
Noell Wilson remembers beloved University of Mississippi history professor John Neff, with his distinguished, thick gray beard,...
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“Behind the Rifle: Women Soldiers in Civil War Mississippi” Author Shelby Harriel at Off Square Books Wednesday, July 10 2019-07-03-Behind the Rifle

“Behind the Rifle: Women Soldiers in Civil War Mississippi” Author Shelby Harriel at Off Square Books Wednesday, July 10

TLV News July 3, 2019
This is the first study with a regional focus of the role women soldiers played in the...
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Explore Historic Preservation with Robin Lattimore and “Southern Splendor: Saving Architectural Treasures of the Old South” Lattimore

Explore Historic Preservation with Robin Lattimore and “Southern Splendor: Saving Architectural Treasures of the Old South”

TLV News September 26, 2018
Friday, September 28 at Off Square Books, 5 pm Few things evoke thoughts and memories of the...
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Ethan Kytle & Blain Roberts Explore Charleston’s Historical Past with “Denmark Vesey’s Garden,” Wednesday, August 1 Denmark Vesey's Garden-feat

Ethan Kytle & Blain Roberts Explore Charleston’s Historical Past with “Denmark Vesey’s Garden,” Wednesday, August 1

TLV News July 25, 2018
Book signing at Off Square Books Wednesday, August 1 at 5 pm In the tradition of James...
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Two University Greys Confederate Soldiers Receive New Tombstones in Oxford, Mississippi – Photographs by Newt Rayburn University Greys Memorial

Two University Greys Confederate Soldiers Receive New Tombstones in Oxford, Mississippi – Photographs by Newt Rayburn

Newt Rayburn May 9, 2018
On May 6, 2018, a beautiful Sunday afternoon in Oxford, Mississippi, the local Camp 1803 of the...
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