R. Crumb: Conversations

Race and Family in the Colonial South

Race and Sport: The Struggle for Equality on and off the Field

Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006 Third Edition

Racial Uplift and American Music, 1878-1943

Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz

Rare Birds: Conversations with Legends of Jazz and Classical Music

Raymond Pace Alexander: A New Negro Lawyer Fights for Civil Rights in Philadelphia

Reading Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom!

Reading Faulkner: Collected Stories

Reading Faulkner: Light in August

Reading Faulkner: Sanctuary

Reading Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury

Reading Faulkner: The Unvanquished

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

Real Football: Conversations on America's Game

Realism for the Masses: Aesthetics, Popular Front Pluralism, and U.S. Culture, 1935-1947

Recentering Anglo/American Folksong: Sea Crabs and Wicked Youths

Recess Battles: Playing, Fighting, and Storytelling

Reclaiming Community in Contemporary African American Fiction

Reconstructing Fame: Sport, Race, and Evolving Reputations

Red Midnight

Red Stick Men: Stories

Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race: Mississippi after Reconstruction, 1877-1917

Redressing the Balance: American Women's Literary Humor from Colonial Times to the 1980s

Reflections of Elegance: Cartier Jewels from the Lindemann Collection

Reggae Wisdom: Proverbs in Jamaican Music

Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control

Religion in Mississippi

Religion in the South

Remaking Dixie: The Impact of World War II on the American South

Remembering Reet and Shine: Two Black Men, One Struggle

Reminiscences of an Active Life: The Autobiography of John Roy Lynch

Rencontres sur le Mississipi, 1682-1763

Resistance and Reformation in Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature: Brown, Wilson, Jacobs, Delany, Douglass, and Harper

Resorting to Casinos: The Mississippi Gambling Industry

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

Return to Dresden

Return to Glory: Inside Tyrone Willingham's Amazing First Season at Notre Dame

The Reverend

Revising the Blueprint: Ann Petry and the Literary Left

Revolt of the Tar Heels: The North Carolina Populist Movement, 1890-1901

Rich Harvest: A History of the Grange, 1867-1900

Richard Dyer-Bennet: The Last Minstrel

Richard Wright's Travel Writings: New Reflections

Richard Wright: Books and Writers

Riddling Tales from around the World

Ridley Scott: Interviews

The Rise of David Duke

The Rise of the American Comics Artist: Creators and Contexts

The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC

The Road to West 43rd Street

Robbing the Mother: Women in Faulkner

Robert Aldrich: Interviews

Robert Altman: Interviews

Robert G. Clark's Journey to the House: A Black Politician's Story

Robert Rodriguez: Interviews

Robinson: The Pleasant History of an Unusual Cat

The Rock Cried Out

Rock Solid: Southern Miss Football

Rodolphe Töpffer: The Complete Comic Strips

Roger Corman: Interviews

The Role of Ideas in the Civil Rights South

Roman Polanski: Interviews

Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954

Roosevelt's Blues: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on FDR

Roots of a Region: Southern Folk Culture

Running Scared: Silver in Mississippi

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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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