January
7 "The 1998 Mississippi Legislative Session: A Look Ahead" Andrew P. Mullins Jr., Special Assistant to the Chancellor
14 "The Great Jake Poisoning" Fetzer Mills, Southern Studies Graduate Student
21 "Garden Catalogs, Planting Zones, and Mississippi Reality: Or, What They Don't Tell You Can Hurt You" Eva Maria Neumaier, Horticulturist and Landscape Designer, Oxford, Mississippi
28 "The Great River Road State Park, Rosedale, Mississippi" Early Ewing, Benoit, Mississippi
February
4 "African-American Music in Northeast Mississippi" Sylvester Oliver, Rust College, Holly Springs, Mississippi
11 "The Delta Blues Museum" John Ruskey, Director, Delta Blues Museum, Clarksdale, Mississippi
18 "African-American Literature" Ethel Young-Minor, Assistant Professor of English
25 "Oxford Development Association and Soul Force Magazine" Susie Marshall, Oxford, Mississippi Clarence Franklin, Editor, Soul Force, Oxford, Mississippi
March
4 "Finding Humor in Women's Studies" Kathryn McKee, McMullan Assistant Professor of Southern Studies and Assistant Professor of English
18 "Free At Last: The Role of True Womanhood in Agnes Anderson's Journals" Josephine Neill, Doctoral Candidate, Department of English
25 "Childhood in Southern Literature" Gail Murray, Department of History, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee
April
1 "Integrating Oxford High School: Interviews of Reflections" Ursula Vesala, History Graduate Student, University of Helsinki, Finland
8 "The History and Travel Department of the Memphis Main Library" Patricia M. LaPointe, Curator, Memphis Main Library, Memphis, Tennessee
15 "Indians on the Southern Frontier" Robbie Ethridge, McMullan Assistant Professor of Southern Studies and Assistant Professor of Anthropology
22 "Aberdeen Library Photography Collection" Librarian, Aberdeen Library, Aberdeen, Mississippi
29 "Sincere Ramblers" Musical Performance; Caroline Herring, Southern
Studies Graduate Student Brian Ledford, former Southern Studies Graduate
Student, Oxford, Mississippi Dave Woolworth, Physics Graduate Student Wendell
Haag, Biologist, U.S. Forestry Service, Oxford, Mississippi