Sacred and Profane: Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art

Sacred Light: Holy Places in Louisiana

Salvation Run

Sam Myers: The Blues Is My Story

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Samuel Fuller: Interviews

Santeria Garments and Altars: Speaking Without a Voice

Saved by Song: A History of Gospel and Christian Music

Saving Louisiana? The Battle for Coastal Wetlands

Scoop: The Evolution of a Southern Reporter

Scorpions of Medical Importance

Scottish Traveller Tales: Lives Shaped through Stories

A Scottsboro Case in Mississippi: The Supreme Court and Brown v. Mississippi

Scotty And Elvis: Aboard the Mystery Train

Seal of Approval: The History of the Comics Code

Searching for John Ford

Searching for Red Eagle: A Personal Journey into the Spirit World of Native America

Searching for the New Black Man: Black Masculinity and Women's Bodies

A Season of Night: New Orleans Life after Katrina

Second Line Rescue: Improvised Responses to Katrina and Rita

Secrets of a New Orleans Chef: Recipes from Tom Cowman's Cookbook

Selected Letters of Katherine Anne Porter: Chronicles of a Modern Woman

Seminole Burning: A Story of Racial Vengeance

Sentenced to Death: The American Novel and Capital Punishment

A Serigamy of Stories

The Seventh Babe

Seventh-day Adventists and the Civil Rights Movement

The Several Lives of Chester Himes

Sex, Race, and the Role of Women in the South

Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture

Shadowing Ralph Ellison

Shadows and Cypress: Southern Ghost Stories

Shaping Memories: Reflections of African American Women Writers

Shaping Our Mothers' World: American Women's Magazines

Sharks, Skates, and Rays of the Gulf of Mexico: A Field Guide

Shebang

Shelby Foote: A Writer's Life

Shelby Foote: Novelist and Historian

Shenandoah Valley Folklife

Shifting Interludes: Selected Essays

Shiloh and Corinth: Sentinels of Stone

Shim

Shocking The Conscience: A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement

The Shoe Bird

Showman: The Life and Music of Perry George Lowery

Shreveport Sounds in Black and White

Sidelines Activist: Charles S. Johnson and the Struggle for Civil Rights

Sidney Lumet: Interviews

The Sinking of the USS Cairo

Sitting in Darkness: New South Fiction, Education, and the Rise of Jim Crow Colonialism, 1865-1920

Sitting Pretty: The Life and Times of Clifton Webb

The Sixteenth Mississippi Infantry: Civil War Letters and Reminiscences

Skin Deep

Slavery and Frontier Mississippi, 1720-1835

Slavery and the American South

Slavery, Propaganda, and the American Revolution

Smart Ball: Marketing the Myth and Managing the Reality of Major League Baseball

The Snare

Soldier's Son

Sombreros and Motorcycles in a Newer South: The Politics of Aesthetics in South Carolina's Tourism Industry

Some Notes on River Country

Somebody Always Singing You

Sonny Montgomery: The Veteran's Champion

The Soul of Southern Cooking

Soul of the Man: Bobby "Blue" Bland

The South and Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha: The Actual and the Apocryphal

The South and the Caribbean

The South By Its Photographers

South Florida Folklife

The South's Role in the Creation of the Bill of Rights

Southern Belle

Southern Cooking to Remember

Southern Fiddlers and Fiddle Contests

Southern Frontier Humor: New Approaches

Southern Shade: A Plant Selection Guide

Southern Sun: A Plant Selection Guide

Southern Writers Quiz Book

Speaking of the Short Story: Interviews with Contemporary Writers

The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer To Tell It Like It Is

Spheres of Liberty: Changing Perceptions of Liberty in American Culture

Spike Lee: Interviews

A Spiral Way: How the Phonograph Changed Ethnography

The Spirit of Black Hawk: A Mystery of Africans and Indians

Spirit of the Delta: The Art of Carolyn Norris

A Spiritual Journey: The Art of Eddie Lee Kendrick

Sports and the Racial Divide: African American and Latino Experience in an Era of Change

Sports: The All-American Addiction

Squint: My Journey with Leprosy

Stackhouse

Stan Lee: Conversations

Stanley Kubrick: Interviews

The Starday Story: The House That Country Music Built

The Starday Story: The House That Country Music Built

Steamboats and the Cotton Economy: River Trade in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta

Step Right Up

Stepping into the Picture: Cartoon Designer Maurice Noble

Steven Soderbergh: Interviews

Steven Spielberg: A Biography, Second Edition

Steven Spielberg: Interviews

Still Following Percy

Stories from Home

Stories from the Haunted South

Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American Culture

The Story-Time of the British Empire: Colonial and Postcolonial Folkloristics

Straight White Male: Performance Art Monologues

Strangers on Their Native Soil: Opposition to United States' Governance in Louisiana's Orleans Territory, 1803-1809

Strawberry Plains Audubon Center: Four Centuries of a Mississippi Landscape

Strike Songs of the Depression

Striking Performances/Performing Strikes

Strings Attached

Studying and Living in Britain

Suddenly They Heard Footsteps: Storytelling for the Twenty-first Century

Sullivan's Hollow

Sundays Down South: A Pastor's Stories

Super Heroes: A Modern Mythology

The Superhero Reader

The Supreme Commander: The War Years of Dwight D. Eisenhower

The Survival of Soap Opera: Transformations for a New Media Era

Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues

Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana

Swing, That Modern Sound

A Symphony of Animals

The System of Comics

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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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