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A History of the Guitar in Spain and Cultural Development Through the 20th Century
by
Michael A. Boyd
A Look at Mande (West African) Culture Through Traditional Music
by
Jerry Jenkins
A New History of Mississippi
by
Dennis Mitchell
African-American Instrument Adoption and Adaptation: Evidence from Music Archaeology and Ethnomusicology
by
Mark H. Howell
Ain’t That America? History and Culture in the Country
by
James C. Giesen
All Things Mississippi: The Beautiful Landscapes and the Great Strength of the People
by
Anne McKee
America’s WWII Era’s Industrial Economy: Impact of Mississippi Women in the Workforce
by
Dr. LaShunda Calvert
An Aesthetics of Creolization: The New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians
by
Annette Trefzer
An Introduction to Chinese Opera
by
Larry Konecky
Anne & Emmett: A Production for Schools
by
New Stage Theatre
Archaeology as an Act of Remembrance: A Tour of American Excavations
by
Jennifer E. Mack
Archie Who and Why? The Story and Significance of a Mississippi Icon
by
Dr. Charles Westmoreland, Jr.
Beauty and Poise: African American Women Authors of the Harlem Renaissance
by
LaShonda Levy
Behind the Big House: Representing Slavery in Mississippi
by
Jodi Skipper
Black Mississippians in the Civil War
by
Max Grivno
Boll Weevil Blues: Cotton and Myth in Mississippi
by
James C. Giesen
Business Enterprise or Public Service? Alternative Paths to Economic Development for African Americans
by
Robert L. Boyd
Centenary College of Brandon Springs: Mississippi’s First Medical School
by
Ralph Didlake
Civilians under Siege in Vicksburg
by
Terrence Winschel
Communal Living in the Magnolia State: Intentional Communities in Mississippi
by
Thomas Michael Kersen
Controlling the Message: How Historical Narratives Shape Our Perceptions
by
Will Bowlin
D-Day Mississippi: The Battle of Port Gibson May 1, 1863
by
Grady Howell
Dancing to Transform: How Concert Dance Becomes Religious in American Christianity
by
Emily Wright
“Middle Ground”: Mississippi’s Identity Identified
by
Myron C. Noonkester
Death and Politics
by
Larry W. Chappell
Delta Epiphany: RFK in the Mississippi Delta
by
Ellen Meacham
Does the Holocaust Still Matter
by
Thomas Velek
Dual Defection: Liberating Party Factions in America
by
Brian Anderson
Ellis Marsalis: Jazz is Spoken Here
by
David Miller
Exploring the Mystical/Spiritual Side of Running and Hiking
by
Thomas Michael Kersen
Extending Booker T. Washington’s Vision in Mississippi: William H. Holtzclaw and the Utica Normal and Industrial Institute
by
Jean Greene
First Steps: How to Learn to Tell a Story
by
Barbara Jones Clark
Flannery O’Connor: In Her Own Words
by
Beverly Fatherree
Fleeting Fickly Sports: Segregation, Intercollegiate Athletics and Social Change in Mississippi
by
Dr. Charles Westmoreland, Jr.
Food from a Bioethics Perspective
by
Ralph Didlake
Foodways in Mississippi
by
Malcolm White
Forbidden, Hidden and Forgotten: Women Soldiers of the Civil War
by
Shelby Harriel
From the Delta to the Coast: The Poets, Poetry and Poetics of Mississippi
by
Benjamin A. Morris
From The Fields To The Factory: The Great Migration of African Americans from the Fields of Mississippi to the Cities and Factories in the North
by
Dr. Brinda Fuller Willis
From the Scraps of My Life in the Mississippi Delta
by
J. Janice Coleman
Gardening Southern Style
by
Felder Rushing
Geneaology for Beginning Researchers
by
Beth K. Freshour
HBCUs: Their Legacy and Continued Relevance in Southern Black Higher Education
by
Jean Greene
“Behind Every Good Man is a Civil Rights Heroine”
by
Rebecca Tuuri
History and Exploration of Bibles
by
James E. Bowley
History Behind the Headlines
by
Thomas Velek
History of American Restaurant Culture
by
Andrew Haley
History, Heritage and Culture: What Do They Mean to Us?
by
Jack Elliott, Jr.
Holt Collier, His Life, His Roosevelt Hunts, and the Origin of the Teddy Bear
by
Minor F. Buchanan
How Spanish is Mississippi?: Mississippi and the Spanish Borderland
How to Teach Blues in the Schools
by
Dr. Brinda Fuller Willis
Humanists as Activists: Exploring Our Social Responsibility as Writers
by
Clinnesha D. Sibley
Ida B. Wells: The Mother of the American Human Rights Movement
by
Dr. Cassie Sade Turnipseed
“Chimneyville,” The Destruction of Jackson, MS during the Civil War, Fact or Myth!
by
Grady Howell
In Their Boots: Poetry Inspired by Soldiers and Their Loved Ones
by
Mark LaFrancis
Inspiring a Culture: How African American Women Became the Food Engineers Behind Southern Soul Food
by
Jarita King
Isabella and the Prince: A Look at Natchez Through the Eyes of
by
Jeremy Houston
John C. Stennis: Legacy of a Legend in Mississippi Politics
by
William “Brother” Rogers
Kiss Me, I’m Italian — and Irish, Chinese, African, French — and So Are You: Ethnic Heritage in Mississippi
by
Barbara Carpenter
Learning from Mississippians about the Civil War & Reconstruction
by
Susannah J. Ural
Learning Mississippi History Through Historical Markers
by
William “Brother” Rogers
Lessons in Leadership from Abraham Lincoln
by
Susannah J. Ural
Lessons of the Holocaust: What We Learn and What We Don’t
by
James E. Bowley
Lost Mississippi
by
Mary Carol Miller
Loyalty and Some Recent Corporate Scandals
by
Samuel Bruton
Making Poems
by
Catherine Pierce
Margret and H.A. Rey: A Partnership that Created and Icon
by
Ellen H. Ruffin
Merle Haggard: Philosopher of the Working Man
by
Lil Lovette
Mississippi and World War II
by
Dennis Mitchell
Mississippi in the Great War
by
Anne Webster
Mississippi in the Work of Sherwood Bonner
by
Kathryn McKee
Mississippi Modernists
by
Jennifer Baughn
Mississippi River Basin Model–Preserving History, Reinventing STEM Education
by
Sarah McEwen
Mississippi Studies: Teaching Mississippi
by
Dennis Mitchell
Mississippi Telling
by
Rebecca Jernigan
Mississippi Territorial, Natchez, Washington and Jefferson College Histories
by
Harold Burkett
Mississippi Water: Shaped By the Past, Molding the Future
by
Mary Love Tagert
Mississippi’s New Capitol
by
Jennifer Baughn
Mixed Messages: Rabbit Foot Minstrels’ Long History and Ambiguous Legacy
by
David Crosby
Music of the War Between the States, 1861 to 1865
by
William Arinder
Nursing Care in the 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic
by
Deanne Nuwer
Over and Under the Fence: Plant Swapping Helped Form Our Culture
by
Felder Rushing
Parallels of Southern Storytelling and Folktales from Around the World
by
Diane Williams
Paul Revere’s Teapot or How the Arts and Humanities Give Your World and Your Life Meaning
by
Barbara Carpenter
People, Not Property: Tracing Your African American Roots
by
Anne Webster
Personal Experience Writing
by
Richelle Putnam
Plague Experiences in Early Modern London and their Contemporary (COVID19) Resonances Today
by
Christopher D. Foley
Preaching, Politics and Race: The 1952 Billy Graham Crusade in Jackson
by
Dr. Charles Westmoreland, Jr.
Prehistoric Native American Stone Tools
by
William Arinder
Professional Wrestling in Mississippi: Where Pop Culture Meets History
by
Jeffrey Martin
Pushing Forward: Hezekiah Watkins and the Youth Movement of Mississippi
by
Hezekiah Watkins
Race and Slavery in Colonial Mississippi
by
Christian Pinnen
Reflections on the Blues & the Mississippi Blues Icon B.B. King
by
Diane Williams
Robert Johnson at the Crossroads
by
Wendy Garrison
Rodgers and Rodgers: Distant Father, Native Son
by
David Morgan
Roots Music of Mississippi
by
Chris Goertzen
Sacred Paths: Modern Explorations in the Worlds of Religions
by
James E. Bowley
Savoring African American History through Stories and Poetry
by
Barbara Jones Clark
Separate But Equal?: African American Schools in Mississippi
by
Jennifer Baughn
Sexploitation: Sexual Profiling and the Illusion of Gender
by
Michele Alexandre
Shalom Y’all: The History of Jews in Mississippi
by
Stuart Rockoff
Shopping in Mississippi History
by
Ted Ownby
Should I Really Ask, “What Can I Do for My Country?”
by
Ted Ammon
Slavery in Antebellum Mississippi
by
Max Grivno
Snapshots to a Collage: Exploring Rural Mississippi
by
John J. Green
Spanish Mississippi Borderlands
by
Christian Pinnen
Talks and Tours Along the Mississippi
by
Clinton Bagley
Telling Our Mississippi Story
by
Malcolm White
Tennessee Williams and Classical Antiquity
by
Mark E. Clark
The American Revolution in the Gulf South
by
Max Grivno
The Asylum Hill Cemetery Project
by
Ralph Didlake
The Battle of Brice’s Crossroads and General Nathan Bedford Forrest
by
Edwina Carpenter
The Battle of Shiloh
by
Grady Howell
The Cakewalk
by
Barbara Jones Clark
The Challenges of the First Fifty Years of Women’s Suffrage
by
Rebecca Tuuri
The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
by
Robert Luckett
The Delta Blues Today
by
Bill J. Abel
The Delta Chinese in 20th Century Mississippi
by
Sherman Hong
The Early Pioneer Settlers 1790 to 1840
by
William Arinder
The Emmett Till Generation: Youth Activism, Radical Protest, and Social Change in Jim Crow Mississippi
by
Daphne Chamberlain
The Hillbilly Cat: The Local Roots and National Impact of Elvis Presley’s Music
by
Carla Falkner
The Historic Journey of African American Quilters
by
Diane Williams
The History of Mississippi’s Mascots (and a Few Others, Too)
by
Jim Woodrick
The Importance of Wearing Shoes: Hookworm Disease in Mississippi
by
Deanne Nuwer
The Incredible Career of Mississippi Native Jimmie Lunceford, Jazz Extraordinaire of the 1930’s and 40’s
by
Janis Triplett Burns
The Inspiring Life of Eudora Welty
by
Richelle Putnam
The Last Conflict Between the Roman Pagans and Christians
by
Mark E. Clark
The Long and Steamy Affair Between the Sciences and the Humanities
by
William F. Lawhead
The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement in Contemporary Times
by
Flonzie Brown Wright
The Mississippi Melting Pot
by
Andrew Haley
The Mississippi Plan and the Rise of Jim Crow
by
Robert Luckett
The Origins of Mississippi Place Names from the War of 1812
by
William “Brother” Rogers
The Parchman Ordeal: The Untold Story
by
Mark LaFrancis
The Rights and Wrongs of History: The Lost Cause and Confederate Civil War Memory
by
Anne Marshall
The Soul of Southern Cooking I & II: Miz Bob’s Second Batch Cooking from a Mississippi Slave Girl’s Table
by
Kathy Starr
The Telling Trees: A Place Called Home
by
Kathryn Lewis
The Value of a Liberal Arts Education
by
Thomas Velek
The Written Word in Mississippi History
by
Katrina Byrd
Theosophical Endeavors in the Magnolia State
by
Thomas Michael Kersen
They Gave Their Lives: Experiences of 53 WWII Veterans 60 Years After the War
by
Duane Bullard
This Is My Century: Margaret Walker and the Black Arts Movement
by
Robert Luckett
Three North Mississippi Mystery Writers: John Grisham, Donna Tartt, and John Armistead
Too Small to be a Nation, Too Big to be an Insane Asylum: Mississippi in the Twentieth Century
by
Chester Morgan
Unionism in Mississippi: Not of One Voice and One Mind in the Civil War
by
Thomas Cockrell
Visual Harmony- The Music in Walter Anderson`s Paintings
by
Patricia Pinson
Walter Anderson- Sojouner
by
Patricia Pinson
Wanted – 1,000,000 Frogs: Weird and Wonderful Things Found in Old Mississippi Newspapers
by
Tracy Carr
Water Ways: Ebbs and Flows of Mississippi History
by
James C. Giesen
What Price Assimilation for African Americans and other Black Peoples?
by
Barbara Dease
White Blues and African American Stringbands: Mississippi’s Creolized Musical Traditions
by
Scott Barretta
White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America
by
Margaret A. Hagerman
White Supremacy in a White Collar: The Citizens’ Council, 1954-1989
by
Stephanie Rolph
Why We Call It Soul Food
by
Dr. Brinda Fuller Willis
Willie Morris and the Southern Memoir
by
Kate Cochran
Women of the Struggle: Facing Fear in the Civil Rights Era
by
Mark LaFrancis
Writing from Nature in Mississippi
by
Sarah Campbell