As preservationist Mary Carol Miller talked with Mississippians about her books on lost mansions and landmarks, enthusiasts brought her more stories of great architecture ravaged by time. The twenty-seven ...

Most Americans hold basic misconceptions about the Confederacy, the Civil War, and the actions of subsequent neo-Confederates. For example, two thirds of Americans—including most history teachers—think ...

Originally established March 30, 1910, as Mississippi Normal College, The University of Southern Mississippi was built on 120 acres of cutover timber land and created to provide training for public school ...

From the contentious delay of the first clash in 1901 to the battle in 2009, The Egg Bowl covers the Ole Miss–Mississippi State rivalry in depth. For each game the narrative includes every scoring drive, ...

“If I had the pen of a ready writer,” Clayton wrote, “enabling me to give a pen-picture of the appearance of the virgin forests in these olden times, covered with the upstretching trees, with occasional ...

With essays by Alan Brinkley, Harvard Sitkoff, Frank Freidel, Pete Daniel, J. Wayne Flynt, and Numan V. Bartley

The New Deal and the South represents the first comprehensive treatment of the impact of the ...

With essays by Harold K. Steen, John H. Napier III, Terry G. Jordan, Grady McWhiney, Thomas D. Clark, Nollie W. Hickman, James C. Downey, W. Kenneth Holditch, Thomas L. McHaney, William F. Winter, Warren ...

There were two events in particular that had a lasting effect on the life of David Frost, Jr. : “Watching my parents make moonshine in our back yard in a wash pot,” he says, “and listening to my ...

When wealthy Mississippi cotton planter Isaac Ross died in 1836, his will decreed that his plantation, Prospect Hill, should be liquidated and the proceeds from the sale be used to pay for his slaves' ...