The Department of Archives and Special Collections

In August 2001 the John Davis Williams Library acquired the collection of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). Over the course of its history, the AICPA developed the world's largest and most prestigious accounting library.Special Collections received an extensive photograph collection and approximately 190 rare volumes documenting the history of accounting. View an inventory of the rare volumes. View an inventory of photographs in the collection. View a guide to other accounting collections in Special Collections.

The Blues Archive acquires and conserves blues and blues-related materials in a variety of formats for scholars of the blues, African American studies, and southern culture.  With over 50,000 sound recordings, in most audio formats; over 15,000 photographs; more than 350 videotapes; over 3,000 books, periodicals and newsletters; and numerous manuscripts and ephemera, the Blues Archive houses one of the largest collections of blues recordings, publications, and memorabilia in the world. Important collections include B. B. King's personal record collection, the Jim O'Neal and Amy van Singel / Living Blues Collection, the Trumpet Records Collection, the John Richbourg Collection, and the Percy Mayfield collection.

Correspondence, manuscripts, and ephemera relating to the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement with a focus on the 1962 integration of the University of Mississippi. Among others the collections contain the papers of James Howard Meredith, Civil Rights Activist and the first African-American student at the University of Mississippi; the papers of former University of Mississippi history professor and author of Mississippi: The Closed Society, Dr. James Silver; and former University of Mississippi political science professor and author of Integration at Ole Miss, Dr. Russell Barrett.

Diaries, letters, and ephemera relating to the role of Mississippi and Mississippians in wartime. Includes collections on the Civil War, the Mexican War, the Spanish American War, World War I and World War II, the Korea War, and the Vietnam War.

View the Rowan Oak Papers, early Faulkner poetry collections, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and film relating to the life and career of William Cuthbert Faulkner.

Papers of Mississippi suffrage leaders, gender specific organizations, diaries, correspondence, and materials relating to the lives of Mississippi men and women.

Correspondence, manuscripts and other materials relating to Mississippi authors and publishing.

Collections from or related to Mississippians who have represented their state in the U.S. Congress. View an inventory of the Eastland Collection.

View Political and Governmental Material from the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries View Political and Governmental Material from the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Publications, papers, photographs, and other ephemera relating to the University of Mississippi.

Visual Collections and the Southern Media Archive identifies, collects, preserves, and makes accessible photography, film, and audio materials relating to the University of Mississippi, the state of Mississippi, and the American South. The Southern Media Archive was established by the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture to collect photographs, film footage, and audio recordings of Southerners for use in creative documentary projects. The archive moved to the Department of Archives and Special Collections in 2000.