Lines Were Drawn

Edited by Teena F. Horn, Alan Huffman, and John Griffin Jones
Preface by Claiborne Barksdale
Categories: History

Lines Were Drawn looks at a group of Mississippi teenagers whose entire high school experience, beginning in 1969, was under federal court-ordered racial integration. Through oral histories and other research, ...

The Measure of Our Days

Edited by Andrew P. Mullins, Jr.
Categories: History

Governor William F. Winter has enriched the political and cultural life of Mississippi and the United States for six decades—as an infantryman in World War II, as a Mississippi House representative ...

Mississippi Black Paper

Foreword by Reinhold Niebuhr
Introduction by Hodding Carter III & Jason Morgan Ward
Categories: History
Series: Civil Rights in Mississippi Series

At the height of the civil rights movement in Mississippi, as hundreds of volunteers prepared for the 1964 Freedom Summer Project, the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) compiled hundreds of statements ...

Live from the Mississippi Delta

By Panny Flautt Mayfield
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology

Live from the Mississippi Delta showcases a rare collection of photographs and stories about musicians from Robert Plant, B. B. King, and ZZ Top to local guitarists playing gigs on the weekend. Panny Flautt ...

Faulkner's Inheritance

Edited by Joseph R. Urgo & Ann J. Abadie
Categories: Literature
Series: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series

Essays by Susan V. Donaldson, Lael Gold, Adam Gussow, Martin Kreiswirth, Jay Parini, Noel Polk, Judith L. Sensibar, Jon Smith, and Priscilla Wald

William Faulkner once said that the writer “collects ...

Succeeding against Great Odds

By Josephine McCann Posey
Categories: History

Alcorn State University was founded in 1871, making it the oldest public historically black land-grant institution in the United States. Alcorn has undergone numerous changes and expansions over the years, ...

A Literary History of Mississippi

Edited by Lorie Watkins
Categories: Literature
Series: Heritage of Mississippi Series

With contributions by Ted Atkinson, Robert Bray, Patsy J. Daniels, David A. Davis, Taylor Hagood, Lisa Hinrichsen, Suzanne Marrs, Greg O'Brien, Ted Ownby, Ed Piacentino, Claude Pruitt, Thomas J. Richardson, ...

Swamp Rat

By Theodore G. Manno
Foreword by Elaine Miller Bond
Categories: Louisiana
Series: America's Third Coast Series

Theodore G. Manno traces the history of nutria from their natural range in South America to their status as an invasive species known for destroying the environmentally and economically important wetlands ...

Living in Mississippi

By Robert W. Hamblin
Categories: Biography And Memoir

Robert W. Hamblin elevates Evans Harrington (1925–1997), as well as his remarkable achievements and writings, introducing his legacy to a new generation. Harrington continually found himself in conflict ...

The Mississippi Encyclopedia

Edited by Ted Ownby, Charles Reagan Wilson, Ann J. Abadie, Odie Lindsey, and James G. Thomas Jr.
Categories: Mississippi

Recipient of the 2018 Special Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and Recipient of a 2018 Heritage Award for Education from the Mississippi Heritage Trust

The perfect book ...