Political Animal

By Frank Perez
Foreword by Robert W. Fieseler
Categories: Biography And Memoir
Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography

During Mardi Gras 1973, Stewart Butler (1930–2020) fell in love with Alfred Doolittle—a wealthy socialite and schizophrenic from San Francisco. Their relationship was an improbable love story that ...

Reading Confederate Monuments

Edited by Maria Seger
Afterword by Joanna Davis-McElligatt
Categories: History

Contributions by Danielle Christmas, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Garrett Bridger Gilmore, Spencer R. Herrera, Cassandra Jackson, Stacie McCormick, Maria Seger, Randi Lynn Tanglen, Brook Thomas, Michael C. ...

The Preventorium

By Susan Annah Currie
Foreword by Cynthia A. Connolly
Categories: Biography And Memoir
Series: Cultures of Childhood

Opened on February 17, 1929, the Mississippi State Preventorium operated continuously until 1976. The Mississippi Preventorium, like similar hospitals throughout the country, was an institution for sickly, ...

Mississippi Zion

By Evan Howard Ashford
Categories: History

RECIPIENT OF THE 2023 BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD FROM THE MISSISSIPPI HISTORICAL SOCIETY
RECIPIENT OF THE ANNA JULIA COOPER AND C. L. R. JAMES AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING SCHOLARLY PUBLICATION IN AFRICANA STUDIES ...

Black Bodies in the River

By Davis W. Houck
Categories: Rhetoric
Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series

Nearly sixty years after Freedom Summer, its events—especially the lynching of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Mickey Schwerner—stand out as a critical episode of the civil rights movement. The ...

The South Strikes Back

By Hodding Carter III
Introduction by Stephanie R. Rolph
Categories: Civil Rights
Series: Civil Rights in Mississippi Series

In The South Strikes Back, Hodding Carter III describes the birth of the white Citizens’ Council in the Mississippi Delta and its spread throughout the South. Originally published in 1959, this book ...

Following the Drums

By John M. Shaw
Categories: African American Studies
Series: American Made Music Series

Following the Drums: African American Fife and Drum Music in Tennessee is an epic history of a little-known African American instrumental music form. John M. Shaw follows the music from its roots in West ...

Songs of Slavery and Emancipation

By Mat Callahan
Introduction by Robin D. G. Kelley
Afterword by Kali Akuno
Categories: African American Studies
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

Throughout the history of slavery, enslaved people organized resistance, escape, and rebellion. Sustaining them in this struggle was their music, some examples of which are sung to this day. While the ...

Asian-Cajun Fusion

By Carl A. Brasseaux & Donald W. Davis
Foreword by Rex H. Caffey
Categories: Louisiana
Series: America's Third Coast Series

Shrimp is easily America’s favorite seafood, but its very popularity is the wellspring of problems that threaten the shrimp industry’s existence. Asian-Cajun Fusion: Shrimp from the Bay to the Bayou ...

Persistence through Peril

Edited by R. Eric Platt & Holly A. Foster
Categories: History

Contributions by Christian K. Anderson, Marcia Bennett, Lauren Yarnell Bradshaw, Holly A. Foster, Tiffany Greer, Don Holmes, Donavan L. Johnson, Lauren Lassabe, Sarah Mangrum, R. Eric Platt, Courtney ...