The Mississippi Encyclopedia

Edited by Ted Ownby, Charles Reagan Wilson, Ann J. Abadie, Odie Lindsey, and James G. Thomas Jr.
Categories: Mississippi

Recipient of the 2018 Special Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and Recipient of a 2018 Heritage Award for Education from the Mississippi Heritage Trust

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Robert Kirkman

Edited by Terrence R. Wandtke
Categories: Comics Studies
Series: Conversations with Comic Artists Series

Robert Kirkman (b. 1978) is probably best known as the creator of The Walking Dead. The comic book and its television adaptation have reinvented the zombie horror story, transforming it from cult curiosity ...

Redefining Liberal Arts Education in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Robert E. Luckett Jr.
Foreword by William D. Adams
Categories: History

Contributions by William D. Adams, Sarah Archino, Mario J. Azevedo, Katrina Byrd, Rico D. Chapman, Helen O. Chukwuma, Monica Flippin Wynn, Tatiana Glushko, Eric J. Griffin, Kathi R. Griffin, Yumi Park ...

The South and the Caribbean

Edited by Douglass Sullivan-González & Charles Reagan Wilson
Categories: Southern Studies
Series: Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History Series

With essays and commentaries by Roger D. Abrahams, Kenneth Bilby, David Eltis, Stanley L. Engerman, Aline Helg, Milton Jamail, Charles Joyner, Daniel C. Littlefield, Bonham C. Richardson, and Ralph Lee ...

More than Cricket and Football

Edited by Joel Nathan Rosen & Maureen M. Smith
Foreword by Roberta J. Park
Afterword by Jack Lule
Categories: Sports And Recreation

Contributions by Lisa Doris Alexander, Sean Bell, Benn L. Bongang, Joel S. Franks, Silvana Vilodre Goellner, Annette R. Hofmann, Dong Jinxia, Cláudia Samuel Kessler, Jack Lule, Li Luyang, Mark Panek, ...

Muffler Men

By Timothy Corrigan Correll & Patrick Arthur Polk
Categories: Photography
Series: Folk Art and Artists Series

Art can appear in the most unexpected places. Muffler men, for example, have become one of the most striking and remarkable of recent folk art creations. From Walla Walla to Daytona, quirky mannikins ...

Bike Week at Daytona Beach

By Roby Page
Categories: Popular Culture

When photojournalist and writer Roby Page first started trekking to Daytona Beach, Florida, for Bike Week in 1985, the counterculture gathering was dominated by rogues, ruffians, and rebels. Now the leather-clad ...

Fritz Lang

Edited by Barry Keith Grant
Categories: Film Studies
Series: Conversations with Filmmakers Series

The films of Fritz Lang depict an entrapping, claustrophobic world in which people are controlled by larger forces. His overriding theme is the struggle against fate and against the traits of human nature ...

Conversations with Jim Harrison

Edited by Robert DeMott
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Jim Harrison (b. 1937) is well known for his blunt, brave style in prose, poetry, screenplays, and nonfiction. In Conversations with Jim Harrison, the Michigan-born writer's directness and passion shine ...

Understanding Addiction

By Elizabeth Connell Henderson
Categories: Health
Series: Understanding Health and Sickness Series

At least one of every four people in America has had some experience with addiction--either personally or through a family member. Addiction and its consequences cost billions of dollars each year in ...