Most portraits of Mississippi's people seem to be done in black and white. Yet only a moment's reflection and observation will indicate the inadequacy of such a limited palette.

The first to populate ...

Mississippi: The WPA Guide to the Magnolia State was part of a nationwide series of guides in the 1930s that created work during the Depression for artists, writers, teachers, librarians, and other professionals. ...

Barbara Carpenter, executive director emeritus of the Mississippi Humanities Council, taught college English for fifteen years at Southeastern Louisiana University, St. Joseph Seminary College, and the ...

The Works Progress Administration was the US agency created in the 1930s to provide work during the Depression for artists, writers, teachers, librarians, and other professionals.

Robert S. McElvaine is chair of the history department at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. He is also author or editor of a number of books on history and American culture.

Casie E. Hermansson is associate professor of English at Pittsburg State University. She is the author of Reading Feminist Intertextuality through Bluebeard Stories, and she has published her work in ...

Ali Colleen Neff is formerly a music writer for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, the SF Weekly, and the East Bay Express, among other publications. She is an instructor at the University of North Carolina ...

Winner of the 2008 Chicago Folklore Prize

Felicia R. McMahon breaks new ground in the presentation and analysis of emerging traditions of the “Lost Boys,” a group of parentless youths who fled Sudan ...

Felicia R. McMahon is a research professor in anthropology at Syracuse University. A former Fulbright Scholar, she has published in several folklore journals and is the coeditor of Children's Folklore: ...

Craig E. Colten is the Carl O. Sauer Professor of Geography at Louisiana State University. Among his previous publications are An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature and (with Elaine ...