Daisy Bates (1914–1999) is renowned as the mentor of the Little Rock Nine, the first African Americans to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. For guiding the Nine through one of the ...

Grif Stockley (1944-2023) authored several books, including Blood in Their Eyes: The Elaine Race Massacres of 1919; Ruled by Race: Black/White Relations in Arkansas from Slavery to the Present; Daisy ...

Exploring an overlooked era of Italian history roiled by domestic terrorism, political assassination, and student protests, Drawn and Dangerous: Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s shines a new light ...

Stephen J. Burn is associate professor of modern and contemporary literature at Northern Michigan University, Marquette. He is the author of Jonathan Franzen at the End of Postmodernism; Intersections: ...

Contributions by Linda Pierce Allen, Carl L. Bankston III, Barbara Carpenter, Milburn J. Crowe, Vy Thuc Dao, Bridget Anne Hayden, Joyce Marie Jackson, Emily Erwin Jones, Tom Mould, Frieda Quon, Celeste ...

In Laurel, Mississippi, in 1935, one daughter of a wealthy and troubled family stood accused of murdering her mother. On her testimony, authorities suspected an equally prominent and well-to-do businessman, ...

Shana Walton is professor of English, modern languages, and cultural studies at Nicholls State University. Formerly, she was director of the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage at the University ...

Hunter Cole was associate director and marketing manager of the University Press of Mississippi at the time of his retirement in 2003. He has contributed essays to a number of publications about Eudora ...

James M. Beeby is assistant professor of history at Indiana University Southeast.

Qiana J. Whitted is associate professor of English and African American studies at the University of South Carolina. She is author of "A God of Justice?": The Problem of Evil in Twentieth-Century Black ...