Mississippi State University Libraries hosted community members of all ages this past week at Mitchell Memorial Library’s Night in the Archives Open House, showcasing the stories, materials and people behind the university’s Archives and Special Collections division.

Mississippi State’s Executive Director of the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library Anne E. Marshall has received a Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for her book “Cassius Marcellus Clay: The Life of an Antislavery Slaveholder and the Paradox of American Reform,” adding to a growing list of accolades for the acclaimed work.