Author W. Ralph Eubanks wrote, “If you can find where the past and the present intersect within Mississippi, you can indeed understand the world.”1 The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, better known as the Mississippi Delta, has a rich agrarian history and is a space that holds national significance for the modern civil rights movement and as the birthplace of American music. Popularly known as “the most southern place on earth,” as dubbed by historian James C. Cobb, the Mississippi Delta offers an excellent case study for a high-impact, service-learning, credit-earning travel course.2 This article will discuss the rationale, design, and goals of an interdisciplinary and interinstitutional course on the Mississippi Delta.
The course idea originated from Nicholas Timmerman's graduate school experience at Mississippi State University (MSU), where historian Jason Morgan Ward designed a similar service- and travel-learning course on the Mississippi Delta in collaboration with the Maroon Volunteer...
