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Walker Percy: A Southern Wayfarer

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Walt before Mickey: Disney's Early Years, 1919-1928

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Warring Fictions: Cultural Politics and the Vietnam War Narrative

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Weapons of Mississippi

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The Welty Collection: A Guide to the Eudora Welty Manuscripts and Documents at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History

Welty: A Life in Literature

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Where the Dreams Cross

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Why I Left America and Other Essays

Wild Bill Sullivan: King of the Hollow

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Wiregrass Country

With Signs Following: Photographs from the Southern Religious Roadside

Without Regard to Race: The Other Martin Robison Delany

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Wolf Tracks: Popular Art and Re-Africanization in Twentieth-Century Panama

Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965

Women Pioneers of the Louisiana Environmental Movement

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World War I and the Cultures of Modernity

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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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