Carolyn A. Haynes is assistant professor of interdisciplinary studies and director of Windate Writing Center at Miami University of Ohio. She is author of Divine Destiny: Gender and Race in Nineteenth-Century ...

Jesse James, John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Bonnie and Clyde—James Copeland (born 1823) was the granddaddy of them all. This is his notorious history as recorded by the sheriff who arrested him ...

During World War I, in the period of the Red Scare, and throughout the Great Depression, the army's domestic spy agency mounted an extensive surveillance campaign focused on civilians and groups deemed ...

J. R. S. Pitts (1832-1920) was a country physician and the sheriff in Augusta, the Mississippi town where James Copeland was hanged.

Roy Talbert Jr. teaches history at the University of South Carolina's Coastal Carolina College.

John D. W. Guice is professor emeritus, Department of History, at the University of Southern Mississippi.

This is the first full-length study of the literary phenomenon in which the modern South, heartland of evangelical Protestantism, has produced significant Roman Catholic writers. This study focuses on ...

Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr. is director of the Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina and the Emily Brown Jefferies Professor of English and Claude Henry Neuffer Professor of Southern ...

Mary L. Hart is coeditor (with William R. Ferris) of Folk Music and Modern Sound, published by University Press of Mississippi.