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The University of Mississippi

A Sesquicentennial History

by David G. Sansing
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999

"There is a mystique about Ole Miss," David G. Sansing says in his new book The University of Mississippi: A Sesquicentennial History (University Press of Mississippi, cloth $37.00). Sansing, a professor emeritus of history, says the University and its story hold a special attraction for those...
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Full Court Press

Mississippi State University, the Press, and the Battle to Integrate College Basketball

by Jason A. Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016

During the civil rights era, Mississippi was caught in the hateful embrace of a white caste system that enforced segregation. Rather than troubling the Closed Society, state news media, on the whole, marched in lockstep or, worse, promoted the continued subservience of blacks. Surprisingly, challenges...
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by Patti Carr Black, Marion Barnwell
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2002

By taking the literary traveler on seven preplanned tours--through the Delta, along Highway 61, to the heart of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha country, to sites near Interstate 55 and the Natchez Trace, to the piney woods of East and South Mississippi, and along the sun-struck Gulf Coast--this book captures...
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The Press and Race

Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement

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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007

For southern newspapers and southern readers, the social upheaval in the years following Brown v. Board of Education (1954) was, as Time put it in 1956, "the region's biggest running story since slavery." The southern press struggled with the region's accommodation of the school desegregation ruling...
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by Michael B. Ballard
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2000

In the Civil War Mississippi experienced a protracted and devastating invasion, and Confederate and Union armies fought fiercely at Corinth, Holly Springs, Iuka, Port Gibson, Vicksburg, and many other sites throughout the state. With both tourists and Civil War buffs in mind, archivist Michael...
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Treasured Past, Golden Future

The Centennial History of the University of Southern Mississippi

by Chester M. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010

Originally established March 30, 1910, as Mississippi Normal College, The University of Southern Mississippi was built on 120 acres of cutover timber land and created to provide training for public school teachers. Chester M. Morgan outlines the evolution of the institution and tells the story of...
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Maroon and White

Mississippi State University, 1878-2003

by Michael B. Ballard
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008

Mississippi State University was founded in 1878 and opened its doors in 1880 as a land-grant school de-signed for teaching agriculture and mechanical arts. Building upon the work of John K. Bettersworth, Michael B. Ballard traces the evolution of this institution. From the beginning, first president...
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Willie

The Life of Willie Morris

by Teresa Nicholas
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016

In 2000, readers voted Willie Morris (1934–1999) Mississippi’s favorite nonfiction author of the millennium. After conducting over fifty interviews and combing through over eighty boxes of papers in the archives at the University of Mississippi, many of which had never been seen before by researchers,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2005

In 1952, Faulkner noted the exceptional nature of the South when he characterized it as "the only really authentic region in the United States, because a deep indestructible bond still exists between man and his environment." The essays collected in Faulkner and the Ecology of the...
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Troutmouth

The Two Careers of Hugh Clegg

by Ronald F. Borne
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015

Hugh Clegg (1898-1979) was among the most notable Mississippi historical figures during the 1920s through the 1960s. Born in Mathiston, Mississippi, he was a member of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1926 to 1954, during which time he rose to the top leadership and worked directly under Director...
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Beaches, Blood, and Ballots

A Black Doctorâ??s Civil Rights Struggle

by M.D., Gilbert R. Mason, James Patterson Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007

This book, the first to focus on the integration of the Gulf Coast, is Dr. Gilbert R. Mason's eyewitness account of harrowing episodes that occurred there during the civil rights movement. Newly opened by court order, documents from the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission's secret files enhance this...
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Golden Days

Reminiscences of Alumnae, Mississippi State College for Women

by Mississippi University for Women Southern Women's Institute
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008

Golden Days includes twenty oral histories of women who graduated from Mississippi State College for Women (now Mississippi University for Women) at least fifty years ago. From Mary Ellen Weathersby Pope's (1926) description of a teaching career beginning just before the 1927 Delta flood to Juanita...
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The Architecture of William Nichols

Building the Antebellum South in North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi

by Paul Hardin Kapp
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015

The Architecture of William Nichols: Building the Antebellum South in North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi is the first comprehensive biography and monograph of a significant yet overlooked architect in the American South. William Nichols designed three major university campuses--the University...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2004

Although he spent the bulk of his life in Oxford, Mississippi-far removed from the intellectual centers of modernism and the writers who created it-William Faulkner (1897-1962) proved to be one of the American novelists who most comprehensively grasped modernism. In his fiction he tested its tenets...
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