Southern History
Mule Trader
Readers captivated by this book will be happy that Bill Ferris found Ray Lum and that he thought to turn on a tape recorder. Lum (1891-1977) was a mule skinner, a livestock trader, an auctioneer, and ...
A Place Called Mississippi
Filled with serendipitous connections and contrasts, this volume of Mississippiana covers four hundred years. It begins with a selection from “A Gentleman from Elvas,” written in 1541, and ends with ...
Civil Rights Chronicle
In more ways than one, Clarice T. Campbell was a friend of the civil rights movement. An indefatigable campaigner for desegregation, Campbell was also an inveterate letter-writer; the fact that many of ...
Remaking Dixie
Although the Civil War reconfigured Dixie, in the half century since the end of World War II the American South has been massively changed again. It is still an improbable mix of tradition and transition, ...
Lords of Misrule
Mardi Gras remains one of the most distinctive features of New Orleans. Although the city has celebrated Carnival since its days as a French and Spanish colonial outpost, the rituals familiar today were ...
Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country
Creoles of Color are rightfully among the first families of southwestern Louisiana. Yet in both antebellum and postbellum periods they remained a people considered apart from the rest of the population. ...
One Time, One Place
Eudora Welty is among the very few authors who are acclaimed for their work in both literature and photography. In 1971 she surprised her readers with this important book, for in One Time, One Place many ...
Tracing Your Mississippi Ancestors
This easy-to-understand guide through a maze of research possibilities is for any genealogist who has Mississippi ancestry.
It identifies the many official state records, incorporated community records, ...
South Florida Folklife
South Florida summons tropical vacationland images—gleaming beaches, exotic foods, colorful costumes, and grand hotels. Yet beyond this facade teems a rich folklife that is the subject of this alluring ...
Arrowheads and Spear Points in the Prehistoric Southeast
The Native American tribes of what is now the southeastern United States left intriguing relics of their ancient cultural life. Arrowheads, spear points, stone tools, and other artifacts are found in ...