Emily Gunther came to Mississippi State History this year from Virginia Tech to pursue her Masters degree. She studies 19th century America and rural southern women. A proponent of social media, she inaugurated the department's Facebook and Twitter pages. Follow her at https://www.facebook.com/msstatehistorydept and https://twitter.com/msstatehistory.

Emily welcomes new items of interest as well as comments. She hopes to make these pages truly interactive.

You can email her at ecg171@msstate.edu.

She will be update the various sites periodically this summer.