Madame Vieux Carré: The French Quarter in the Twentieth Century

Made in Mexico: Tradition, Tourism, and Political Ferment in Oaxaca

The Magic Behind the Voices: A Who's Who of Cartoon Voice Actors

The Magic Carpet and Other Tales

Magnificent, Marvelous Martelé: American Art Nouveau Silver

Making a Way out of No Way: African American Women and the Second Great Migration

Making Haste Slowly: The Troubled History of Higher Education in Mississippi

Malinche's Children

Manners and Southern History

Mardi Gras, Gumbo, and Zydeco: Readings in Louisiana Culture

Margaret Atwood's Fairy-Tale Sexual Politics

Mario Lanza: Singing to the Gods

Maroon and White: Mississippi State University, 1878-2003

Martha Skelton: Master Quilter of Mississippi

Martin Luther King's Biblical Epic: His Final, Great Speech

Martin Ritt: Interviews

Martin Scorsese: Interviews

Marxism for Our Times: C. L. R. James on Revolutionary Organization

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

Mass Media and the Shaping of American Feminism, 1963-1975

Masterpieces of Fabergé: The Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation Collection.

Mayor Crump Don't Like It: Machine Politics in Memphis

Me: A Book of Remembrance

The Measure of Our Days
Writings of William F. Winter

The Mechanical Feature: 100 Years of Engineering at Mississippi State University

The Melody Man: Joe Davis and the New York Music Scene, 1916-1978

A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader

Memory's Tailor

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Memphis Boys: The Story of American Studios

Memphis-Nam-Sweden: The Story of a Black Deserter

Merchant-Ivory: Interviews

Metapop: Self-referentiality in Contemporary American Popular Culture

Michael Powell: Interviews

Michael Winterbottom: Interviews

Mike Leigh: Interviews

Mildred Nungester Wolfe

Milton Caniff: Conversations

The Mind of the South: Fifty Years Later

Minty Alley

Miracles of the Spirit: Folk, Art, and Stories from Wisconsin

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

Missing New Orleans

Mississippi Archaeology Q & A

Mississippi Artist: A Self-Portrait

Mississippi Black History Makers: Revised and Enlarged Edition

The Mississippi Cookbook

Mississippi Forests and Forestry

Mississippi Harvest: Lumbering in the Longleaf Pine Belt, 1840--1915

Mississippi Hill Country Blues 1967

Mississippi in Africa: The Saga of the Slaves of Prospect Hill Plantation and Their Legacy in Liberia

Mississippi in the Civil War: The Home Front

Mississippi John Hurt: His Life, His Times, His Blues

Mississippi Liberal: A Biography of Frank E. Smith

Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2008, Second Edition

Mississippi Politics
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The Mississippi Public Community and Junior College Story: 1972-2002

Mississippi Quilts

The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission: Civil Rights and States' Rights

The Mississippi Story

Mississippi Weather and Climate

Mississippi Writers Talking

Mississippi Writers Talking II

Mississippi Writers: An Anthology

Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and Youth, Vol. I: Fiction

Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and Youth, Vol. II: Non-fiction

Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and Youth, Vol. III: Poetry

Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and Youth, Vol. IV: Drama

Mississippi: A Documentary History

Mississippi: The Closed Society

Mississippi: The WPA Guide to the Magnolia State

Mississippi's American Indians

Models of Misrepresentation: On the Fiction of E. L. Doctorow

More Conversations with Eudora Welty

More Conversations with Walker Percy

Morgana: Two Stories from 'The Golden Apples'

Mort Walker: Conversations

Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore

Mouse Tracks: The Story of Walt Disney Records

Moving Pictures, Migrating Identities

Ms. Booth's Garden Photographs

Muffler Men

The Mulatta and the Politics of Race

Mule Trader: Ray Lum's Tales of Horses, Mules, and Men

Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a, and Asian American Fictions

Multiparty Politics in Mississippi, 1877-1902

Murder at Montpelier: Igbo Africans in Virginia

Music and History: Bridging the Disciplines

Must See Mississippi: 50 Favorite Places

MuzikMafia: From the Local Nashville Scene to the National Mainstream

My Friend Tom: The Poet-Playwright Tennessee Williams

My Life with Charlie Brown

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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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