Ole Miss researcher to study African-American experience at Vicksburg

For the next two years, University of Mississippi history instructor Beth Kruse will live and work in Vicksburg, delving into the untold story of Black Americans in the tumultuous Civil War South.  The National Park Service Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship has named 15 postdoctoral fellows to tell a more inclusive story of American history. Kruse will piece together the history of African Americans living in and around Vicksburg between the Civil War and Reconstruction. Kruse will examine widow and orphan pension letters and other documents from African American soldiers who died in the war and are buried in Vicksburg National Cemetery. She will also gather stories from families who are descendants. -- Article