University Press Of Mississippi: 979 books
The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer
To Tell It Like It Is
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
Most people who have heard of Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) are aware of the impassioned testimony that this Mississippi sharecropper and civil rights activist delivered at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Far fewer people are familiar with the speeches Hamer delivered at the 1968 and 1972...
Return to Guntown
Classic Trials of the Outlaws and Rogues of Faulkner Country
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
A federal prosecutor in Mississippi for over thirty years, John Hailman routinely worked with federal agents, lawyers, judges, and criminals of every type imaginable. Encouraged by the acclaim for his earlier book, From Midnight to Guntown, he has opened even more of the astonishing cases within the...
American Raiders
The Race to Capture the Luftwaffe's Secrets
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2004
At the close of World War II, Allied forces faced frightening new German secret weapons--buzz bombs, V-2s, and the first jet fighters. When Hitler's war machine began to collapse, the race was on to snatch these secrets before the Soviet Red Army found them. The last battle of World War II, then,...
Under Surge, Under Siege
The Odyssey of Bay St. Louis and Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Winner of the 2010 Eudora Welty Book Prize and the Mississippi Library Association's Nonfiction Author's Award for 2011, Under Surge, Under Siege shows how Hurricane Katrina tore into Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, raking away lives, buildings, and livelihoods in a place known for its picturesque, coastal...
We Shall Not Be Moved
The Jackson Woolworth's Sit-In and the Movement It Inspired
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Once in a great while, a photograph captures the essence of an era: Three people--one black and two white--demonstrate for equality at a lunch counter while a horde of cigarette-smoking hotshots pour catsup, sugar, and other condiments on the protesters' heads and down their backs. The image strikes...
Under Surge, Under Siege
The Odyssey of Bay St. Louis and Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Winner of the 2010 Eudora Welty Book Prize and the Mississippi Library Association's Non-fiction Author's Award for 2011, Under Surge, Under Siege shows how Hurricane Katrina tore into Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, raking away lives, buildings, and livelihoods in a place known for its picturesque, coastal...
by Hunter Cole, Elizabeth Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
In Laurel, Mississippi, in 1935, one daughter of a wealthy and troubled family stood accused of murdering her mother. On her testimony, authorities suspected an equally prominent and well-to-do businessman, her reputed lover, of assisting. Ouida Keeton apparently shot her mother, chopped her up, and...
The Cajuns
Americanization of a People
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2003
The past sixty years have shaped and reshaped the group of French-speaking Louisiana people known as the Cajuns. During this period they have become much like other Americans and yet have remained strikingly distinct. The Cajuns: Americanization of a People explores these six decades and analyzes...
Big Jim Eastland
The Godfather of Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
For decades after the Second World War, Senator James O. Eastland (1904-1986) was one of the more intransigent leaders of the Deep South's resistance to what he called "the Second Reconstruction." And yet he developed, late in his life, a very real friendship with state NAACP chair Aaron...
Mississippians in the Great War
Selected Letters
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Even Mississippi textbooks rarely mention the part Mississippi men and women played in World War I. Mississippians in the Great War presents in their own words the story of Mississippians and their roles. This body of work divides into five sections, each associated with crucial dates of American...
Sowing the Wind
The Mississippi Constitutional Convention of 1890
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
In 1890, Mississippi called a convention to rewrite its constitution. That convention became the singular event that marked the state's transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth and set the path for the state for decades to come. The primary purpose of the convention was to disfranchise...
A Cormac McCarthy Companion
The Border Trilogy
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2001
With essays by Edwin T. Arnold, J. Douglas Canfield, Christine Chollier, George Guillemin, Dianne C. Luce, Jacqueline Scoones, Phillip A. Snyder, Nell Sullivan, and John Wegner The completion of Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy--All the Pretty Horses (1992), The Crossing (1994), and Cities of the...
Mayor Crump Don't Like It
Machine Politics in Memphis
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2008
In the 1930s thousands of African Americans abandoned their long-standing allegiance to the party of Abraham Lincoln and began voting for Democratic Party candidates. This new voting pattern remapped the nation's political landscape and altered the relationship between citizen and government. One...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
These ten essays from the annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, held in 1989 at the University of Mississippi, explore the religious themes in William Faulkner's fiction. The papers published here conclude that the key to religious meaning in Faulkner may be that his texts focus not so much on God but on a human aspiration of the divine.