Bayou Dilemma

Edited by Samuel C. Hyde Jr.
Categories: History
Series: America's Third Coast Series

Contributions by Janet Allured, Craig E. Colten, Marcus S. Cox, Pearson Cross, John Bel Edwards, Adam Fairclough, Keith M. Finley, Samuel C. Hyde Jr., John A. Lopez, and Robert Mann

In the fall of 2022, ...

Sickly Vapors

By Thomas Helling
Categories: History

The southern climate, with its heat, oppressive humidity, and stagnant marshland, accentuated disease and suffering for inhabitants of the Old South, from its early settling through the Civil War and ...

A Republican's Lament

By Bill Crawford
Foreword by Lloyd Gray & C. D. Smith
Categories: Politics

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

Bill Crawford thought his modern-day Republican Party would lift Mississippi off the bottom, a notion born of Gil Carmichael’s ...

Ghosts of Atlanta

By Rhana Gittens Wheeler
Categories: Race And Ethnicity

The Black community of Atlanta, a city once heralded as the “Black Mecca of the South,” is currently under threat of dislocation by cultural gentrification. Amid the city’s urban renaissance, residents face ...

All the Things We Didn't Say

By Marion Garrard Barnwell & Mary DuBose Trice Clark
Categories: Biography And Memoir
Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography

Nominee for the 2025 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Life Writing

In this poignant and introspective dual memoir, Marion Garrard Barnwell embarks on a deeply personal journey. Inspired ...

In Silence or Indifference

By Wayne A. Wiegand
Categories: African American Studies

Librarians around the country are currently on a battleground, defending their right to purchase and circulate books dealing with issues of race and systemic racism. Despite this work, the library community ...

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, ...

Fallen Comrade

By Walter Howell
Categories: Biography And Memoir

Fallen Comrade: A Story of the Korean War presents an account of three young men from Clinton, Mississippi, who served in the US Marine Corps during the Korean War. Waller King, Joe Albritton, and Homer ...

A Place to Live in Peace

By Evelyn L. Wilson
Categories: African American Studies

A Place to Live in Peace: Free People of Color in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana reveals a community where free people of color lived harmoniously with white people even as slavery persisted. Author ...

Watershed

By Davy Murrah
Categories: Biography And Memoir

Nominee for the 2025 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Life Writing

The Pascagoula River is the largest unobstructed river in the contiguous United States. Because of this lack of restraint, ...