La Salle and His Legacy

Ladies First: Women in Music Videos

Ladies of Soul

The Lakes of Pontchartrain: Their History and Environments

The Land of the Smokies: Great Mountain Memories

The Language of Comics: Word and Image

Larry Brown and the Blue-Collar South

Larry Brown: A Writer's Life

Lars von Trier: Interviews

Last Barriers: Photographs of Wilderness in the Gulf Islands National Seashore

The Last Lawyer: The Fight to Save Death Row Inmates

The Last Resort: Taking the Mississippi Cure

The Lasting of the Mohicans: History of an American Myth

Laugh Track

The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections

Lauren's Line

Lavish Self-Divisions: The Novels of Joyce Carol Oates

Layered Violence: The Detroit Rioters of 1943

Leander Perez: Boss of the Delta

Legend of the Free State of Jones

Legend of the Free State of Jones

Legend-Tripping Online: Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong's Hat

The Legs Murder Scandal

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

Let It Shine: Self-Taught Art from the T. Marshall Hahn Collection

Let the World Listen Right: The Mississippi Delta Hip-Hop Story

Letters from Forest Place: A Plantation Family's Correspondence, 1846-1881

Let's Make Some Noise: Axé and the African Roots of Brazilian Popular Music

Lew Ayres: Hollywood's Conscientious Objector

Lewis Hine as Social Critic

The Life of Dick Haymes: No More Little White Lies

Life on the Press: The Popular Art and Illustrations of George Benjamin Luks

A Lifetime Burning

The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales

Light of the Spirit: Portraits of Southern Outsider Artists

Lincoln Apostate: The Matson Slave Case

Lincoln's Moral Vision: The Second Inaugural Address

Liv Ullmann: Interviews

Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967

Living Life inside the Lines: Tales from the Golden Age of Animation

Li'l Abner: A Study in American Satire

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

Lockstep and Dance: Images of Black Men in Popular Culture

The Lonely Days Were Sundays: Reflections of a Jewish Southerner

Lonesome Melodies: The Lives and Music of the Stanley Brothers

Long Lance

Long, Long Tales from the Russian North

Looking Back Mississippi: Towns and Places

Lords of Misrule: Mardi Gras and the Politics of Race in New Orleans

Losing Ground: Identity and Land Loss in Coastal Louisiana

Losing Malcolm: A Mother's Journey Through Grief

Lost Churches of Mississippi

A Lost Heroine of the Confederacy: The Diaries and Letters of Belle Edmondson

Lost Landmarks of Mississippi

Lost Mansions of Mississippi

Lost Mansions of Mississippi, Volume II

Lost Plantation: The Rise and Fall of Seven Oaks

Lost Plantations of the South

Lotus Among the Magnolias: The Mississippi Chinese

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Louisiana Dayride: Fifty-two Short Trips from New Orleans

Louisiana Fiddlers

Louisiana Governors: Rulers, Rascals, and Reformers

Louisiana Governors: Rulers, Rascals, and Reformers

Louisiana Rambles: Exploring America's Cajun and Creole Heartland

Louisiana Voyages: The Travel Writings of Catharine Cole

The Loved and the Unloved

Lynda Barry: Girlhood through the Looking Glass

The Lytle-Tate Letters: The Correspondence of Andrew Lytle and Allen Tate

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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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