Exhibits and Events
News and Events
Read about recent Special Collections activities in Library Focus.
Current Exhibitions
Student Curated Exhibits Featured in Special Collections
Through March 2025
McCain Library and Archives, Room 305
Invitation to Visit Two New de Grummond Exhibits
McCain Library & Archives, 2nd Floor
Exhibits Online
Tana Hoban: Artist, Photographer, Children's Book Author
Tudor Place, The Secret Dollhouse
Susan Hasalo Sojourner Collection
Ezra Jack Keats Award at the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection
From Iowa to Arkansas in a Covered Wagon: The Amelia Siedler Diary, 1895-1896
Ezra Jack Keats: His Life and Art
Madge Burney: Champion of the Lost Cause
Seeing Red: Anti-Communism Efforts in Mississippi, 1944-1968
Legacy of Dr. Joseph A. Greene, Founding Dean of the College of Business and Economic Development
Sam E. Woods: Diplomat and Donor
A Golden Past: Southern Miss Football Programs
The AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection:
An Exhibit
Past Exhibitions
Student Curated Exhibits Featured in Special Collections
Gene Taylor: South Mississippi's Choice for U.S. Congress, 1989-2011
With Honors: Exhibits Curated by Southern Miss Honors Students
Behind the Prize: Artists of the EJK Award Committee
McCain Library & Archives
Celebrate Spring with the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection and Beatrix Potter
Cleanth Brooks Reading Room, McCain Library & Archives, Room 305
Student Curated Exhibits Featured in Special Collections
Cleanth Brooks Reading Room, McCain Library & Archives, Room 305
The Imaginings of H.A. Rey: Illustrations and Musings of the Artist (1937-1971)
Cleanth Brooks Reading Room, McCain Library & Archives, Room 305
“Now Preaching in Your City”: Religion in Mississippi
Cleanth Brooks Reading Room, McCain Library & Archives, Room 305
Tribute to Author Richard Peck
de Grummond Exhibit Room in Cook Library
Student Curated Exhibits 2019
Through February 2020
Cleanth Brooks Reading Room, McCain Library & Archives, Room 305
The Humor of Syd Hoff
Through March 2019
de Grummond Exhibit Room in Cook Library
Student Curated Exhibits 2018
Through March 2019
Cleanth Brooks Reading Room, McCain Library & Archives, Room 305
The National Organization for Women, 1980-1985
Through March 2019
1st floor Exhibit Cases, Cook Library
Spaced Out: The Atomic Age of Children’s Book Cover Design
Through November 2018
Cleanth Brooks Reading Room, McCain Library & Archives, Room 305
Gems from de Grummond
Through March 2018
de Grummond Exhibit Room
in Cook Library
Mississippi Bicentennial: Celebrating the State’s 200th Anniversary
Through February 2018
Cleanth Brooks Reading Room, McCain Library & Archives Room 305
Some Hair, a Chew Toy, and a Grocery Cart Walk Into a Bar: Stories Told by Artifacts in Special Collections
January - May 2017
Cleanth Brooks Reading Room, McCain Library & Archives Room 305
Mississippi Pulp: Paperback Originals from Southern Miss' Special Collections
January - August 2016
Cleanth Brooks Reading Room, McCain Library & Archives Room 305
Back to School: Glimpses of USM History from the Archives
January - August 2015
Cleanth Brooks Reading Room, McCain Library & Archives Room 305
From Calvin to Rembrandt: Selections from the Sam E. Woods Collection
January - August 2015
Cleanth Brooks Reading Room, McCain Library & Archives Room 305
After Freedom Summer: The Civil Rights Photographs of Sue Lorenzi Sojourner
Cleanth Brooks Reading Room, McCain Library & Archives Room 305
July 2014 - January 2015
Isn’t it Romantic: Romance Literature through the Years
Cleanth Brooks Reading Room, McCain Library & Archives Room 305
January - June 2014
Living Through the Rebellion
Cleanth Brooks Reading Room, McCain Library & Archives Room 305
August 2013 - January 2014
Southern Judaism: the Mississippi Experience
Cleanth Brooks Reading Room, McCain Library & Archives Room 305
May - August 2013
“Food is Fun!” America’s Culinary Culture
Cleanth Brooks Reading Room, McCain Library & Archives Room 305
January - May 2013
Through the Eyes of Poets
Cleanth Brooks Reading Room, McCain Library & Archives 305
April 2012 - January 2013
Banned and Challenged Books - Issues of Freedom
Cook Library Lobby Exhibit Cases
March 2012
Berta and Elmer Hader: A Retrospective
The de Grummond Exhibit Room, Cook Library Room 203
April 2010 - March 2012
Vagabond Lover to Dallas: The "For Profit" Writing Career of Con Sellers
Cleanth Brooks Reading Room, McCain Library & Archives Room 305
November 2010 - May 2011
Charles F. Heartman: A Bookman for the South
Cleanth Brooks Reading Room, McCain Library & Archives Room 305
May - October 2010
I’ll Wait for the Movie: Media Tie-in Books in Special Collections at USM
Cleanth Brooks Reading Room, McCain Library & Archives Room 305
January - April 2010
Connecting Collections: A Collaborative Exhibit from the McCain Library & Archive
The de Grummond Exhibit Room, Cook Library Room 203
September 2009 - March 2010
A Century of Service: The Mississippi Library Association Centennial Exhibit
Cleanth Brooks Reading Room, McCain Library & Archives Room 305
August - December 2009
Voices and Images of and from the South
The de Grummond Exhibit Room, Cook Library Room 203
April - September 2009
Long Ago and Far Away
Cleanth Brooks Reading Room, McCain Library & Archives Room 305
April - August 2009
Seeing Red: Anti-communism efforts in Mississippi, 1944-1968
Cleanth Brooks Reading Room, McCain Library & Archives Room 305
June 2008 - March 2009
Highlights from the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection Featuring the Donations of Mark Landis and Dr. Margaret Carlin
The de Grummond Collection Exhibit Room, Cook Library Room 203
Thru March 13, 2009
A Place by the Sea: Tourism on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Cleanth Brooks Reading Room, McCain Library & Archives Room 305
January - May 2008
Survivors of a Throwaway Culture: Railroad Ephemera and its Research Value
Cleanth Brooks Reading Room, McCain Library & Archives Room 305
October - December 2007
In Sickness and in Health: the History of Nursing in Mississippi
Cleanth Brooks Reading Room, McCain Library & Archives Room 305
June - Septmber 2007
Isn't That a Pretty Picture? Illustration Processes from 1493 to the Present
Cleanth Brooks Reading Room, McCain Library & Archives Room 305
January - May 2007