Research Tools
There are a number of tools to assist users of the Department of Archives and Special Collections at the University of Mississippi. For instructions on how to use the tools below and for general research help, please visit our research tips.
Search Finding Aids
The search box below will perform a keyword search only within online finding-aids for collections and archives held at the University of Mississippi.
Browse Finding Aids
Subject Guides
Focusing on a specific theme, subject guides provide brief descriptions and links to related collections and material.
- 1927 Mississippi River Flood
- Agriculture & Forestry
- Antebellum
- Art
- Blues
- Business & Accounting
- Civil Rights & Race Relations
- Civil War Collections
- Criminal Justice & Parchman Penitentiary
- Education
- Engineering
- William Faulkner
- French Revolution and Napoleonic Materials (including the Louisiana Purchase and War of 1812)
- Gender Studies
- Geology
- Health
- Jounalism and Mass Media
- Literary Collections
- Mississippi as Province & Territory
- Mississippi Delta
- Native Americans
- Photograph Collections
- Politics & Government
- Reconstruction
- Religion
- Secret Societies & Fraternal Organizations
- Transportation
- University of Mississippi
- Wars (Excluding the American Civil War)