Natural History and Outdoors
Mississippi Snakes
Mississippi Snakes: Their Identification, Natural History, and Influence on the Culture of the Magnolia State is more than just a guidebook about snakes. It is a new approach to understanding the natural ...
Hurricane Camille
Nominated Best Nonfiction Book for 2004 by the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters
On August 17, 1969, Hurricane Camille roared out of the Gulf of Mexico and smashed into Mississippi’s twenty-six m ...
Restless Winds
Donald C. Jackson’s newest book of outdoor essays, Restless Winds: Memoirs of an Outdoorsman, takes the reader on a journey from America’s Deep South out into the world. Jackson’s essays explore landscapes, wat ...
Return to Elkins Creek
Return to Elkins Creek combines a series of fishing stories, descriptions of changing cultural norms, and the peculiar history of freshwater fishing gear. Beginning with subsistence fishing in very rural ...
Southern Women, Southern Landscapes
Southern Women, Southern Landscapes: Cultural Reflections on the Garden, 1870–1970 is an exploration of a number of Southern women—writers, artists, and gardeners, both Black and white—who looked to the lan ...
The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative
The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) was a ten-year, $500 million research program to investigate the impacts of oil, dispersed oil, and dispersants on the ecosystems of the Gulf of Mexico following ...
Child as Citizen
Contributions by Daniela Brockdorff, Nina Christensen, Jill Coste, Katrin Dautel, Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Giuliana Fenech, Naomi Hamer, Irena Barbara Kalla, Anne Klomberg, Sonali Kulkarni, Elizabeth ...
Comics of the Anthropocene
Since the first Earth Day in 1970, how have US comics artists depicted the human-caused destruction of the natural world? How do these representations manifest in different genres of comics like superheroes, ...
Bayou Dilemma
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, ...
Watershed
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, ...