Photography

125 Years at Mississippi State University: A Pictorial History of the People's University

African American Writers: Portraits and Visions

Appalachian Lives

Bike Week at Daytona Beach: Bad Boys and Fancy Toys

Cajun and Creole Music Makers: Musiciens cadiens et créoles

Clarence John Laughlin: Prophet without Honor

Country Churchyards

Delta Deep Down

Delta Land

Eudora Welty as Photographer

The French Quarter of New Orleans

From Every Stage: Images of America's Roots Music

The Garden District of New Orleans

Gettysburg: Sentinels of Stone

Great Houses of Mississippi

Highway 51: Mississippi Hill Country

Historic Churches of Mississippi

The Jazz Image: Seeing Music through Herman Leonard's Photography

Juke Joint: Photographs

Katrina: Mississippi Women Remember

Last Barriers: Photographs of Wilderness in the Gulf Islands National Seashore

Lewis Hine as Social Critic

Mississippi Hill Country Blues 1967

Ms. Booth's Garden Photographs

Must See Mississippi: 50 Favorite Places

New Delta Rising

Okefenokee Photographs

On Floods and Photo Ops: How Herbert Hoover and George W. Bush Exploited Catastrophes

Oraien Catledge: Photographs

Panther Tract: Wild Boar Hunting in the Mississippi Delta

Passage on the Underground Railroad

Photographs

Photographs from the Memphis World, 1949-1964

The Reverend

Sacred Light: Holy Places in Louisiana

Shiloh and Corinth: Sentinels of Stone

Some Notes on River Country

The South By Its Photographers

Ten Point: Deer Camp in the Mississippi Delta

Terra Incognita: Photographs of America's Third Coast

Terra Incognita: Photographs of America's Third Coast

Texas Death Row Photographs

This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement

Through the Lens of the City: NEA Photography Surveys of the 1970s

Timber: A Photographic History of Mississippi Forestry

TVA Photography: Thirty Years of Life in the Tennessee Valley

TVA Photography, 1963-2008 : Challenges and Changes in the Tennessee Valley

Vicksburg: Sentinels of Stone

Victorian Houses of Mississippi

With Signs Following: Photographs from the Southern Religious Roadside

The World War II Black Regiment That Built the Alaska Military Highway: A Photographic History

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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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