Unpalatable

By Carrie Helms Tippen
Categories: Cooking And Foodways
Series: Ingrid G. Houck Series in Food and Foodways

The cookbook genre is highly conventional with an orientation toward celebration and success. From glossy photographs to heartwarming stories and adjective-rich ingredient lists, the cookbook tradition ...

Voices and Visions

Edited by Nancy Dixon & Leslie Petty
Categories: Literature

Contributions by Ruth R. Caillouet, Mary C. Carruth, Nancy Dixon, Kathleen Downes, Edward J. Dupuy, Shari Evans, Paul Fess, Carina Evans Hoffpauir, Leslie Petty, Heidi Podlasi-Labrenz, Tierney S. Powell, ...

Of Salt and Spirit

Edited by Sharbreon Plummer
Categories: Art And Architecture

Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilters in the American South surveys some of the richly diverse quiltmaking traditions maintained by Black women in the US South during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. ...

The Egg Bowl

By William G. Barner
With Danny McKenzie & Jeff Roberson
Categories: Sports And Recreation

From the contentious delay of the first clash in 1901 to the latest battle in 2023, The Egg Bowl: Mississippi State vs. Ole Miss, Third Edition updates the two previous editions to give the most accurate, ...

What Became of Dr. Smith

By Noah Saterstrom
Edited by Megan Hines
Foreword by Betsy Bradley
Categories: Art And Architecture

Nominee for the 2025 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Visual Arts

Artist Noah Saterstrom (b. 1974) grew up aware of a mystery in his family’s story. No living relatives knew what had h ...

Black Hibiscus

Edited by John Wharton Lowe
Categories: African American Studies

Contributions by Simone A. James Alexander, José Felipe Alvergue, Valerie Babb, Pamela Bordelon, Taylor Hagood, Joyce Marie Jackson, Delia Malia Konzett, Jane Landers, John Wharton Lowe, Gary Monroe, ...

A Trumpet around the Corner

By Samuel Charters
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology
Series: American Made Music Series

Samuel Charters has been studying and writing about New Orleans music for more than fifty years. A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz is the first book to tell the entire story of ...

Vibe

By Corey J. Miles
Categories: African American Studies
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

Winner of the 2025 IASPM Book Prize in the category of English from the International Association for the Study of Popular Music

Where exactly does the South begin and end? Current maps are too rigid to ...

Rowdy Boundaries

By James L. Robertson
Categories: Mississippi

Dwelling along the Mississippi River, the Tennessee state line, the Tenn-Tom Waterway, and the Gulf of Mexico are a trove of characters with fascinating lives and histories. In Rowdy Boundaries: True ...

American Landscapes

Edited by Ann J. Abadie & J. Richard Gruber
Categories: Art And Architecture
Series: University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses Series

American Landscapes: Meditations on Art and Literature in a Changing World is a major contemporary survey of landscapes in art and literature of the United States, especially the American South. Inspired ...