Pacific Skies: American Flyers in World War II

Paddling the Pascagoula

Panther Tract: Wild Boar Hunting in the Mississippi Delta

Passage on the Underground Railroad

Passing in the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty among Artists of the Thirties

The Past Is Not Dead: Essays from the Southern Quarterly

Pat Harrison: The New Deal Years

Patrick Chamoiseau: A Critical Introduction

Paul Marchand, F. M. C.

Pearl Harbor Jazz: Change in Popular Music in the Early 1940s

The Peddler's Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi

Pedro Almodóvar: Interviews

Pemberton: The General Who Lost Vicksburg

The Peninsula Campaign of 1862: A Military Analysis

People Get Ready: African American and Caribbean Cultural Exchange

Performing the Pilgrims: A Study of Ethnohistorical Role Playing at Plimoth Plantation

Perilous Place, Powerful Storms: Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana

Personal Souths Interviews from the Southern Quarterly

Perspectives on Barry Hannah

Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy

Perspectives on Harry Crews

Perspectives on Percival Everett

Perspectives on Richard Ford

Perspectives on Wole Soyinka: Freedom and Complexity

Peter Greenaway: Interviews

Peyote Religious Art: Symbols of Faith and Belief

Photographs

Photographs from the Memphis World, 1949-1964

Pictured in My Mind: Contemporary American Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Dr. Kurt Gitter and Alice Rae Yelen

The Pilgrim Jubilees

Pilgrimage from Darkness: Nuremberg to Jerusalem

Piney Woods School: An Oral History

A Place Called Mississippi: Collected Narratives

Placing the South

Pleasant Journeys and Good Eats along the Way: The Paintings of John Baeder

Plunging into Haiti: Clinton, Aristide, and the Defeat of Diplomacy

Poe

The Poetics of American Song Lyrics

The Politics of Paul Robeson's Othello

Populism in the South Revisited: New Interpretations and New Departures

Porgy

Postcolonial Cultures

Postcolonial Literature and the Biblical Call for Justice

Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature

The Postwar African American Novel: Protest and Discontent, 1945-1950

Power Plays: Politics, Football, and Other Blood Sports

Prejudice Across America

Presbyterian Missionary Attitudes toward American Indians, 1837-1893

Preserving the Pascagoula

The Press and Race: Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement

Professional Wrestling: Sport and Spectacle

Promises Kept: The University of Mississippi Medical Center

The Properties of Violence: Claims to Ownership in Representations of Lynching

Prophet Singer
The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie

Public Folklore

Punk and Neo-Tribal Body Art

The Pursuit of a Dream

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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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