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The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

The Comics of Rutu Modan: War, Love, and Secrets

The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev, Volume II

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Crooked Snake: The Life and Crimes of Albert Lepard

Dick Waterman: A Life in Blues

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Foreign Missions of an American Prosecutor: From Moscow to Morocco and Paris to the Persian Gulf

French Quarter Manual: An Architectural Guide to New Orleans's Vieux Carré

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Implied Nowhere: Absence in Folklore Studies

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The Indian Caribbean: Migration and Identity in the Diaspora

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Language in Louisiana: Community and Culture

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A Legal History of Mississippi: Race, Class, and the Struggle for Opportunity

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Louisiana Poets: A Literary Guide

Lynching: Violence, Rhetoric, and American Identity

The Original Blues: The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville

Oz behind the Iron Curtain: Aleksandr Volkov and His "Magic Land" Series

Peculiar Rhetoric: Slavery, Freedom, and the African Colonization Movement

The Practice of Folklore: Essays toward a Theory of Tradition

Promises of Citizenship: Film Recruitment of African Americans in World War II

Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat: The Making of Roger Rabbit

Race and Radio: Pioneering Black Broadcasters in New Orleans

Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House and Beyond

Robert Taylor: Male Beauty, Masculinity, and Stardom in Hollywood

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Steven Spielberg: Interviews, Revised and Updated

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World War I and Southern Modernism

You Don't Know Jack: A Storyteller Goes to School

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Guest Blog: Jeff McLaughlin on Stan Lee

Comics fans around the world mourned Stan Lee's death on November 12, 2018. Lee's extensive contributions to the world of comics have long solidified him as a pop culture legend. In honor of what would have been Stan Lee's 96th birthday, we asked Jeff McLaughlin, editor of Stan Lee: Conversations, to weigh in. Below, McLaughlin discusses Lee's creativity and his personal experiences with the

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