Southern History
Memphis
Residents and visitors know the city of Memphis by many names—Bluff City, Big Shelby, Blues City, and the Good Samaritan of the Mississippi.
In this book of 122 full-color photographs, Larry E. McPherson ...
Africans and Seminoles
Because Seminoles held slaves in a confusing system that was markedly dissimilar to white society's, the federal government was challenged to identify which blacks in Florida were free and which were ...
Mississippi Liberal
Instead of turning toward hatred after his father was murdered by a black man in 1926, Frank E. Smith (1918-1997) committed himself to help his racist state move toward integration and racial harmony. ...
Inventing New Orleans
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) prowled the streets of New Orleans from 1877 to 1888 before moving on to a new life and global fame as a chronicler of Japan. Hearn's influence on our perceptions of New Orleans, ...
Black-Jewish Relations on Trial
An analysis of the Leo Frank case as a measure of the complexities characterizing the relationship between African Americans and Jews in America
In 1915 Leo Frank, a northern Jew, was lynched in Georgia. ...
Shenandoah Valley Folklife
Bordered by the Blue Ridge and the Allegheny Mountains, the Shenandoah Valley forms a natural corridor to the western parts of Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Early American settlers followed ...
Pemberton
It was the sad fate of General John C. Pemberton (1814-1881), a northerner serving in the Confederate army, to die in disgrace and humiliation. Because he surrendered Vicksburg to General Grant, many ...
The Pursuit of a Dream
Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, the McLemore Prize of the Mississippi Historical Society, and the Silver Medal of the Commonwealth Club of California
Originally published in 1981, this fascinating ...
The University of Mississippi
“There is a mystique about Ole Miss,” David G. Sansing says in this book.
Sansing, a professor emeritus of history, says the University of Mississippi and its story hold a special attraction for those ...
Mule Trader
Readers captivated by this book will be happy that Bill Ferris found Ray Lum and that he thought to turn on a tape recorder. Lum (1891-1977) was a mule skinner, a livestock trader, an auctioneer, and ...