University Press Of Mississippi imprint: 979 books
Assassins, Eccentrics, Politicians, and Other Persons of Interest
Fifty Pieces from the Road
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Writing as a newspaper reporter for nearly forty years, Curtis Wilkie covered eight presidential campaigns, spent years in the Middle East, and traveled to a number of conflicts abroad. However, his memory keeps turning home and many of his most treasured stories transpire in the Deep South. He called...
by Jim Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone chronicles Jim Dickinson's extraordinary life in the Memphis music scene of the fifties and sixties and how he went on to play with and produce a rich array of artists, including Aretha Franklin, the Rolling Stones, Ry Cooder, Duane Allman, Arlo Guthrie, and Albert King....
Let the World Listen Right
The Mississippi Delta Hip-Hop Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2009
In the Mississippi Delta, creativity, community, and a rich expressive culture persist despite widespread poverty. Over five years of extensive work in the region, author Ali Colleen Neff collected a wealth of materials that demonstrate a vibrant musical scene.Let the World Listen Right draws from...
Buryin' Daddy
Putting My Lebanese, Catholic, Southern Baptist Childhood to Rest
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
A descendant of Lebanese Catholic immigrants on her father's side and Baptist sharecroppers on her mother's, Teresa Nicholas recounts in Buryin' Daddy a southern upbringing with an unusual inflection. As the book opens, the author recalls her charmed early childhood in the late 1950s, when she and...
Count Them One by One
Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Forrest County, Mississippi, became a focal point of the civil rights movement when, in 1961, the United States Justice Department filed a lawsuit against its voting registrar Theron Lynd. While thirty percent of the county's residents were black, only twelve black persons were on its voting rolls....
Your Heritage Will Still Remain
Racial Identity and Mississippi's Lost Cause
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Your Heritage Will Still Remain details how Mississippians, black and white, constructed their social identity in the aftermath of the crises that transformed the state beginning with the sectional conflict and ending in the late nineteenth century. Michael J. Goleman focuses primarily on how Mississippians...
The War of Our Childhood
Memories of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2002
One survivor tells of the fire bombing of Dresden. Another recounts the pervasive fear of marauding Russian and Czech bandits raping and killing. Children recall fathers who were only photographs and mothers who were saviors and heroes.
These are typical in the stories collected in The War...
From Midnight to Guntown
True Crime Stories from a Federal Prosecutor in Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
As a federal prosecutor in Mississippi for over thirty years, John Hailman worked with federal agents, lawyers, judges, and criminals of every stripe. In From Midnight to Guntown, he recounts amazing trials and bad guy antics from the darkly humorous to the needlessly tragic. In addition to bank...
From Midnight to Guntown
True Crime Stories from a Federal Prosecutor in Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
As a federal prosecutor in Mississippi for over thirty years, John Hailman worked with federal agents, lawyers, judges, and criminals of every stripe. In From Midnight to Guntown, he recounts amazing trials and bad guy antics from the darkly humorous to the needlessly tragic.
In addition to...
Death in the Delta
Uncovering a Mississippi Family Secret
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Growing up, Molly Walling could not fathom the source of the dark and intense discomfort in her family home. Then in 2006 she discovered her father's complicity in the murder of two black men on December 12, 1946, in Anguilla, deep in the Mississippi Delta. Death in the Delta tells the story of one...
The Good Doctors
The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
In the summer of 1964 medical professionals, mostly white and northern, organized the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR) to provide care and support for civil rights activists organizing black voters in Mississippi. They left their lives and lucrative private practices to march beside and tend...
by Donald C. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
In Wilder Ways, Donald C. Jackson takes readers on a journey into the deep and very personal connections that can develop between people and wild places while hunting, fishing, and rambling across landscapes. Fishing by lantern light late at night for bullhead catfish on a small stream, hunting wood...
My Triumph over Prejudice
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
My Triumph over Prejudice is the autobiography of a black girl growing up in Mississippi during the civil rights era. Born in 1949, Martha Wyatt-Rossignol came of age during some of the most crucial and dangerous years of the civil rights movement. She examines those years and what happened when the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey (b. 1966) describes her mode as elegiac. Although the loss of her murdered mother informs each book, Trethewey's range of forms and subjects is wide. In compact sonnets, elegant villanelles, ballad stanzas, and free verse, she creates monuments to mixed-race...