.— Mississippi State faculty member Joseph M. Thompson has added another honor to his growing list of accolades with a certificate of merit from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, recognizing his influential research on the intersection of music and military history in his acclaimed book “Cold War Country: How Nashville’s Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism.”

America’s struggle for independence that began 250 years ago will take center stage next month as Mississippi State’s Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library hosts the screening of a new Ken Burns documentary on the Revolutionary War and a discussion featuring prominent Bulldog historians.

Mississippi State’s Cobb Institute of Archaeology is celebrating its 50th anniversary Oct. 16-18 with a weekend of special events highlighting a half-century of groundbreaking research, student engagement and community outreach.