Originally published in 2006, Mississippi Politics quickly became the definitive work on the state's recent political history, campaigns, legislative battles, and litigation, as well as how Mississippi ...

Andy Taggart, a Republican, currently operates his own law firm, focusing on business counseling and consulting with emphasis on government and health. He has served as executive director of the Mississippi ...

John Grisham is the renowned author of numerous novels, and he is a former legislator originally from Mississippi

Richard A. Barney is associate professor of English at the University of Albany, State University of New York, and he is author of Plots of Enlightenment: Education and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century ...

Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967 presents the first comprehensive view of authors who have published books in the one hundred and fifty years since Mississippi achieved statehood. The writers included ...

In two turbulent outbursts the city of Detroit has been subjected to civil disorder on a massive scale. The greatest of these occurred in 1967, but prior to this the Detroit Race Riot of 1943 was the ...

James B. Lloyd was curator of special collections at the Hunter Library at Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina. He received his doctorate in English from the University of Mississippi ...

The great majority of the South's plantation homes have been destroyed over time, and many have long been forgotten. In Lost Plantations of the South, Marc R. Matrana weaves together photographs, diaries ...