The Life of Dick Haymes

By Ruth Prigozy
Categories: Biography And Memoir
Series: Hollywood Legends Series

There was a time when no one would have left Dick Haymes (1918–1980) out of the top class of such contemporaries as Frank Sinatra and Perry Como. But now the Argentine-born baritone is known only to ...

Deep South Dispatch

By John N. Herbers
With Anne Farris Rosen
Foreword by Gene Roberts
Categories: Biography And Memoir
Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography

Former New York Times correspondent John N. Herbers (1923-2017), who covered the civil rights movement for more than a decade, has produced Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist, a ...

Comics and Adaptation

Edited by Benoît Mitaine, David Roche, and Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot
Translated by Aarnoud Rommens
Categories: Comics Studies

Contributions by Jan Baetens, Alain Boillat, Philippe Bourdier, Laura Cecilia Caraballo, Thomas Faye, Pierre Floquet, Jean-Paul Gabilliet, Christophe Gelly, Nicolas Labarre, Benoît Mitaine, David Roche, ...

William Friedkin

Edited by Christopher Lane
Categories: Film Studies
Series: Conversations with Filmmakers Series

Academy Award–winning director William Friedkin (b. 1935) is best known for his critically and commercially successful films The French Connection and The Exorcist. Unlike other film school–educated ...

Beyond the Blockbusters

Edited by Rebekah Fitzsimmons & Casey Alane Wilson
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Contributions by Megan Brown, Jill Coste, Sara K. Day, Rachel Dean-Ruzicka, Rebekah Fitzsimmons, Amber Gray, Roxanne Harde, Tom Jesse, Heidi Jones, Kaylee Jangula Mootz, Leah Phillips, Rachel L. Rickard ...

Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks

Edited by Trevor Boffone & Cristina Herrera
Foreword by Guadalupe García McCall
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Winner of the Children’s Literature Association’s 2022 Edited Book Award

Contributions by Carolina Alonso, Elena Avilés, Trevor Boffone, Christi Cook, Ella Diaz, Amanda Ellis, Cristina Herrera, Guadalupe ...

The War on Poverty in Mississippi

By Emma J. Folwell
Categories: History

President Lyndon B. Johnson’s war on poverty instigated a ferocious backlash in Mississippi. Federally funded programs—the embodiment of 1960s liberalism—directly clashed with Mississippi’s closed ...

Till Death Do Us Part

Edited by Allan Amanik & Kami Fletcher
Categories: Ethnography

Contributions by Allan Amanik, Kelly B. Arehart, Sue Fawn Chung, Kami Fletcher, Rosina Hassoun, James S. Pula, Jeffrey E. Smith, and Martina Will de Chaparro

Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries ...

Delta Epiphany

By Ellen B. Meacham
Categories: History

In April 1967, a year before his run for president, Senator Robert F. Kennedy knelt in a crumbling shack in Mississippi trying to coax a response from a listless child. The toddler sat picking at dried ...

Ms. Marvel's America

Edited by Jessica Baldanzi & Hussein Rashid
Categories: Comics Studies

Contributions by José Alaniz, Jessica Baldanzi, Eric Berlatsky, Peter E. Carlson, Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins, Antero Garcia, Aaron Kashtan, Winona Landis, A. David Lewis, Martin Lund, Shabana Mir, Kristin ...