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Southern studies 125 Years at Mississippi State University: A Pictorial History of the People's University 78 Blues: Folksongs and Phonographs in the American South Acadian to Cajun: Transformation of a People, 1803-1877 Across the Creek: Faulkner Family Stories Africa and the Blues African American Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas Africans and Seminoles: From Removal to Emancipation After Removal: The Choctaw in Mississippi After Southern Modernism: Fiction of the Contemporary South Ain't That a Knee-Slapper: Rural Comedy in the Twentieth Century And One Was a Priest: The Life and Times of Duncan M. Gray Jr. Angola to Zydeco: Louisiana Lives Appalachian Lives The Art of Nellie Mae Rowe Backseat Quarterback Bad Boy of Gospel Music: The Calvin Newton Story Banjo on the Mountain: Wade Mainer's First Hundred Years Barry Hannah: Postmodern Romantic The Big Ballad Jamboree Bike Week at Daytona Beach: Bad Boys and Fancy Toys Black Exodus: The Great Migration from the American South Black-Jewish Relations on Trial: Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South Blue Ridge Folklife Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues, Third Edition Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music Britain and the American South: From Colonialism to Rock and Roll Building Louisiana: The Legacy of the Public Works Administration Cajun and Creole Folktales Collected and Annotated Cajun and Creole Music Makers: Musiciens cadiens et créoles Cajun Country Cajun Foodways Cajun Mardi Gras Masks Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors: A Young Reader's History The Cajuns: Americanization of a People Calling Out Liberty: The Stono Slave Rebellion and the Universal Struggle for Human Rights Carolina Piedmont Country Carville: Remembering Leprosy in America The Catfish Book Changing Channels: The Civil Rights Case that Transformed Television Children of the Dark House: Text and Context in Faulkner Choctaw Tales The Christ-Haunted Landscape: Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction Civil Rights Childhood The Civil War in Mississippi: Major Campaigns and Battles Comics and the U.S. South Coming Home! Self-Taught Artists, the Bible, and the American South The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" about the "Lost Cause" Confederate Industry: Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War Confederates in the Tropics: Charles Swett's Travelogue of 1868 Confronting Modernity: Art and Society in Louisiana Contemporary Southern Identity: Community through Controversy Conversations with Larry Brown Conversations with William Faulkner The Correspondence of Flannery O'Connor and the Brainard Cheneys Count No 'Count: Flashbacks to Faulkner Count Them One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote Country Churchyards Country Music Culture: From Hard Times to Heaven The Courting of Marcus Dupree The Crawfish Book Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country Cross the Water Blues: African American Music in Europe Crusades for Freedom: Memphis and the Political Transformation of the American South Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre: Photographs of a River Life Death in the Delta: Uncovering a Mississippi Family Secret Delta Land Dixie Before Disney: 100 Years of Roadside Fun Downhome Gospel: African American Spiritual Activism in Wiregrass Country DuBose Heyward: A Charleston Gentleman and the World of Porgy and Bess Dunlap Earl Hooker, Blues Master The Egg Bowl: Mississippi State vs. Ole Miss Second Edition Elvis and Gladys Falling Through Space: The Journals of Ellen Gilchrist Faulkner and Gender Faulkner and His Contemporaries Faulkner and Ideology Faulkner and Material Culture Faulkner and Postmodernism Faulkner and Psychology Faulkner and the Artist Faulkner and the Ecology of the South Faulkner and the Natural World Faulkner and the Short Story Faulkner and War Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition Faulkner at 100: Retrospect and Prospect Faulkner at West Point A Faulkner Chronology Faulkner in America Faulkner in the Twenty-First Century Faulkner on the Color Line: The Later Novels Faulkner's Inheritance Faulkner's World: The Photographs of Martin J. Dain Faulkner: A Biography Faulkner: Masks and Metaphors Faulkner's Rowan Oak Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine Flannery O' Connor: An Introduction Flannery O'Connor's Religion of the Grotesque The Florida Folklife Reader Florida's Miracle Strip: From Redneck Riviera to Emerald Coast Flying Free: Twentieth-Century Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Ellin and Baron Gordon Fortune's Favorite Child: The Uneasy Life of Walter Anderson From Every Stage: Images of America's Roots Music The Fugitive Race: Minority Writers Resisting Whiteness The Garden District of New Orleans Ghost Dancing on the Cracker Circuit: The Culture of Festivals in the American South Ghost Hunters of the South Great Smoky Mountains Folklife Growing Up in Mississippi Haitian Vodou Flags Hands in the Till: Embezzlement of Public Monies in Mississippi Hank Williams, So Lonesome Haunted Places in the American South Historic Churches of Mississippi The Historical Present: Uses and Abuses of the Past Horn of Plenty: Seasons in an Island Wilderness In the Lion's Mouth: Black Populism in the New South, 1886-1900 Inventing New Orleans: Writings of Lafcadio Hearn Inventing Southern Literature Jesus and the Sweet Pilgrim Baptist Church The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Huckleberry Finn Jimmie Rodgers: The Life and Times of America's Blue Yodeler The Johnson Family Singers: We Sang for Our Supper Katrina: Mississippi Women Remember Kennedy's Blues: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on JFK Kentucky Bluegrass Country The Land of the Smokies: Great Mountain Memories Larry Brown and the Blue-Collar South Larry Brown: A Writer's Life Leander Perez: Boss of the Delta Let It Shine: Self-Taught Art from the T. Marshall Hahn Collection Light of the Spirit: Portraits of Southern Outsider Artists Lincoln's Moral Vision: The Second Inaugural Address The Lonely Days Were Sundays: Reflections of a Jewish Southerner Lords of Misrule: Mardi Gras and the Politics of Race in New Orleans Lost Landmarks of Mississippi Lost Mansions of Mississippi Lost Mansions of Mississippi, Volume II Lost Plantation: The Rise and Fall of Seven Oaks Louisiana Cookery Louisiana Governors: Rulers, Rascals, and Reformers Louisiana Voyages: The Travel Writings of Catharine Cole Manners and Southern History Mardi Gras, Gumbo, and Zydeco: Readings in Louisiana Culture Mayor Crump Don't Like It: Machine Politics in Memphis The Measure of Our Days Writings of William F. Winter The Mind of the South: Fifty Years Later Mississippi Archaeology Q & A Mississippi Artist: A Self-Portrait The Mississippi Cookbook Mississippi Forests and Forestry Mississippi Harvest: Lumbering in the Longleaf Pine Belt, 1840--1915 Mississippi Politics The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006 The Mississippi Public Community and Junior College Story: 1972-2002 Mississippi Quilts The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission: Civil Rights and States' Rights The Mississippi Story Mississippi Writers Talking Mississippi Writers Talking II Mississippi Writers: An Anthology Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and Youth, Vol. I: Fiction Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and Youth, Vol. II: Non-fiction Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and Youth, Vol. III: Poetry Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and Youth, Vol. IV: Drama Mississippi: A Documentary History Mississippi: The WPA Guide to the Magnolia State More Conversations with Eudora Welty More Conversations with Walker Percy Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore The Mulatta and the Politics of Race Mule Trader: Ray Lum's Tales of Horses, Mules, and Men MuzikMafia: From the Local Nashville Scene to the National Mainstream Nairne's Muskhogean Journals: The 1708 Expedition to the Mississippi River Native American Place Names in Mississippi New Orleans Cuisine: Fourteen Signature Dishes and Their Histories Now Is the Time On William Faulkner On William Hollingsworth, Jr. Operation Pretense: The FBI's Sting on County Corruption in Mississippi Outside the Southern Myth Pemberton: The General Who Lost Vicksburg Perspectives on Barry Hannah Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy Perspectives on Harry Crews Perspectives on Richard Ford Photographs Pictured in My Mind: Contemporary American Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Dr. Kurt Gitter and Alice Rae Yelen The Pilgrim Jubilees Piney Woods School: An Oral History A Place Called Mississippi: Collected Narratives Placing the South Poe Populism in the South Revisited: New Interpretations and New Departures Porgy Prejudice Across America The Press and Race: Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement 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 Reading Faulkner: Collected Stories Reading Faulkner: Light in August Reading Faulkner: Sanctuary Reading Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury Reading Faulkner: The Unvanquished Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race: Mississippi after Reconstruction, 1877-1917 Religion in the South Remembering Reet and Shine: Two Black Men, One Struggle Resorting to Casinos: The Mississippi Gambling Industry The Reverend Revolt of the Tar Heels: The North Carolina Populist Movement, 1890-1901 The Rise of David Duke Robbing the Mother: Women in Faulkner Rock Solid: Southern Miss Football The Role of Ideas in the Civil Rights South Sacred and Profane: Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art Sam Myers: The Blues Is My Story A Scottsboro Case in Mississippi: The Supreme Court and Brown v. Mississippi Secrets of a New Orleans Chef: Recipes from Tom Cowman's Cookbook Seminole Burning: A Story of Racial Vengeance Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture Shadows and Cypress: Southern Ghost Stories Shelby Foote: A Writer's Life Shelby Foote: Novelist and Historian Shenandoah Valley Folklife Shifting Interludes: Selected Essays The Sinking of the USS Cairo The Sixteenth Mississippi Infantry: Civil War Letters and Reminiscences 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 The South and the Caribbean The South By Its Photographers South Florida Folklife Southern Belle Southern Cooking to Remember Southern Fiddlers and Fiddle Contests Southern Writers Quiz Book Spirit of the Delta: The Art of Carolyn Norris Steamboats and the Cotton Economy: River Trade in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Strawberry Plains Audubon Center: Four Centuries of a Mississippi Landscape Sundays Down South: A Pastor's Stories Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana Tallulah: My Autobiography Tennessee Williams and the South Texas Death Row Photographs Threading the Generations: A Mississippi Family's Quilt Legacy Three Lives for Mississippi Timber: A Photographic History of Mississippi Forestry Touring Literary Mississippi Toussaint's Clause: The Founding Fathers and the Haitian Revolution Tracks The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760 Triumph of Good Will: How Terry Sanford Beat a Champion of Segregation and Reshaped the South Tupelo Man: The Life and Times of George McLean, a Most Peculiar Newspaper Publisher TVA Photography: Thirty Years of Life in the Tennessee Valley Upper Cumberland Country Vicksburg: Sentinels of Stone Victorian Houses of Mississippi Vodou Things: The Art of Pierrot Barra and Marie Cassaise Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau Waltz the Hall: The American Play Party The War of Our Childhood: Memories of World War II We End in Joy: Memoirs of a First Daughter Weapons of Mississippi Wiregrass Country With Signs Following: Photographs from the Southern Religious Roadside Witness to Reconstruction: Constance Fenimore Woolson and the Postbellum South, 1873-1894 Witnessing Woke Me Up This Morning: Black Gospel Singers and the Gospel Life Writing Women's History: A Tribute to Anne Firor Scott You Are Where You Eat: Stories and Recipes from the Neighborhoods of New Orleans Zachary Scott: Hollywood's Sophisticated Cad Zydeco!	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