Although many acclaimed photographers have focused their cameras on the Mississippi Delta, no photographer, until now, has attempted to produce a photographic interpretation of the land itself. The images ...

Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, the McLemore Prize of the Mississippi Historical Society, and the Silver Medal of the Commonwealth Club of California

Originally published in 1981, this fascinating ...

During a period of thirty-five years, from 1927 until 1962, a group of friends gathered to hunt, socialize, and savor good times in the vanishing southern wilderness. They convened at the Ten Point Deer ...

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 ...

A magical story of a stray cat's transformation into a prodigy who performs at Carnegie Hall; includes block prints by the author

Each year thousands of tourists flock to Mississippi to view the state's many architectural treasures, but few realize that these impressive homes are only the faint remnant of a phenomenal legacy. For ...

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 ...

A widow's riveting yet poignant memoir of her marriage to a prolific creator, the extremely inspired Gulf Coast artist Walter Anderson, whose splendid art was heightened and enriched by his madness

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, ...