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Anthony Minghella: Interviews

Baba Yaga: The Wild Witch of the East in Russian Fairy Tales

Beyond The Chinese Connection: Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production

Borders of Equality: The NAACP and the Baltimore Civil Rights Struggle, 1914-1970

Chronicle of a Camera: The Arriflex 35 in North America, 1945-1972

Comics and Language: Reimagining Critical Discourse on the Form

Comics and Narration

Coming Home to Mississippi

Conversations with Andre Dubus

Conversations with Paul Auster

Conversations with Percival Everett

d'Ohrs of Ohr: A Commemoration of the Opening of the Doors of the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art

Dave Sim: Conversations

Desegregating Desire: Race and Sexuality in Cold War American Literature

Desi Divas: Political Activism in South Asian American Cultural Performances

Folklore Recycled: Old Traditions in New Contexts

From Midnight To Guntown: True Crime Stories from a Federal Prosecutor in Mississippi

Haiti and the Americas

I Am a Craftsman: 40 at 40: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Craftsmen's Guild of Mississippi with 40 of its Exhibiting Members

Japanese Animation: East Asian Perspectives

Jujitsu for Christ

Kathryn Bigelow: Interviews

Les Cadiens et leurs ancêtres acadiens: l'histoire racontée aux jeunes

A Locker Room of Her Own: Celebrity, Sexuality, and Female Athletes

Long, Long Tales from the Russian North

Mary Wickes: I Know I've Seen That Face Before

Mirrors of Clay: Reflections of Ancient Andean Life in Ceramics from the Sam Olden Collection

Mississippi Hill Country Blues 1967

Neil Jordan: Interviews

Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books

Out of the Shadow of Leprosy: The Carville Letters and Stories of the Landry Family

Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature

Rethinking the Irish in the American South: Beyond Rounders and Reelers

Scotty And Elvis: Aboard the Mystery Train

Searching for the New Black Man: Black Masculinity and Women's Bodies

Second Line Rescue: Improvised Responses to Katrina and Rita

Shocking The Conscience: A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement

Southern Frontier Humor: New Approaches

The Starday Story: The House That Country Music Built

Strangers on Their Native Soil: Opposition to United States' Governance in Louisiana's Orleans Territory, 1803-1809

The Superhero Reader

Tell About Night Flowers: Eudora Welty's Gardening Letters, 1940-1949

To Paint and Pray: The Art and Life of William R. Hollingsworth, Jr.

Une Belle Maison: The Lombard Plantation House in New Orleans's Bywater

We Shall Not Be Moved: The Jackson Woolworth's Sit-In and the Movement It Inspired

Women Pioneers of the Louisiana Environmental Movement

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On the Horizon: Scotty and Elvis

When Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillips’s Memphis-based Sun Records studio, he was a shy teenager in search of a sound. Phillips invited a local guitarist named Scotty Moore to stand in. Scotty listened carefully to the young singer and immediately realized that Elvis had something special.  Along with bass player Bill Black, the trio recorded an old blues number called “That’s All

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