The southern U.S. state of Mississippi turns 200 years old on Sunday.The day before, the state will open two museums that examine its history. The museums are in Jackson, the state capital. They aim to tell Mississippi's past clearly and honestly, even when the stories are ugly.The Museum of Mississippi History takes the long view, 15,000 years from the Stone Age until modern times. The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum targets a shorter -- and intense -- period from 1945 to 1976.Katie Blount is director of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History."We are telling a much longer story in the Museum of Mississippi History, a much deeper story in the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum," Blount said. "We want everybody to walk in one door, side by side, to learn all of our state's stories."The general history museum presents Native American culture, European settlement, sla
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