April 2025 Society Meeting

Dr. William K. Storey

Presents:

"The Death of William K. Storey: An Irish-American Describes What It Has Been Like to Learn about the Killing of His Namesake and Great-Grandfather during the Irish War of Independence.”

Bill Storey is an American author. His fifth book, The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes, will be published by Oxford University Press in May 2025.

He is also the author of The First World War: A Concise Global History (Rowman & Littlefield, third edition, 2020); Writing History: A Guide for Students (Oxford University Press, sixth edition, 2020); Guns, Race and Power in Colonial Southern Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2008); and Science and Power in Colonial Mauritius (University of Rochester Press, 1998).

Storey has been awarded the Sidney M. Edelstein Book Prize by the Society for the History of Technology. He has also had fellowship support from the NEH, the MacArthur Foundation, and Fulbright.

He teaches at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, where he is Professor of History and Sanderson Chair in Arts and Sciences. He has been named a statewide winner of the Carnegie-CASE Teacher of the Year. He earned an A.B. in history from Harvard University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the Johns Hopkins University.

Locations and meetings

Mississippi Genealogical Society has a new meeting place -- Christway Commons at Christway Church in Flowood on Old Fannin Road.  This is the meeting area in the rear of the church -- through the parking lot, around to the right rear of the main building.  On meeting days there will be a sign indicating the door to enter.   The address is 1501 Old Fannin Road, Flowood.

MGS generally meets on the third Saturday of most months.  Previously, we meet in January, March, May, September, and November.  Now, we are adding meetings in every month except December.  These meetings will tend to be skills-building and planning sessions