The David C. Berry, Jr. Papers include the correspondence, drafted writings, and publications of USM professor and poet David C. Berry. This collection would be of particular interest to researchers focusing on the writing process or studying university professorships and family life in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Topics in Berry’s poetry include the Vietnam War, marriage, divorce, and religion.

This collection contains correspondence, photographs, and other memorabilia relating to the life and career of Dr. John Calvin Berry, the first African American faculty member at the University of Southern Mississippi.

This collection contains historical materials and various publications.

Correspondence, reports, files, magazines documenting his career with the Mississippi Highway Patrol and as an attorney.

This collection contains records, notes, photographs, and publications.

A collection of photographs, booklets, pamphlets, periodicals, postcards, letters, menus, and scrapbooks that will be in various collections.

Documentation of the life and career of USM professor of biological sciences.

Publications and professional papers reflecting the 23-year career of USM professor of political science.

The collection contains information and pictures regarding World War II and the Vietnam War. Items range from photocopies of books and articles to interviews of Vietnam soldiers to material regarding Vietnam battles such as Hamburger Hill.

Publications produced by Dr. Leon Wilber.

This collection contains correspondence, research materials, drafts, and lectures by the author or editor of a dozen books about Southern literature.