Southern history

78 Blues: Folksongs and Phonographs in the American South

Aaron Henry: The Fire Ever Burning

Acadian to Cajun: Transformation of a People, 1803-1877

Across the Creek: Faulkner Family Stories

Affect and Power: Essays on Sex, Slavery, Race, and Religion

Africa and the Blues

African American Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas

Africans and Seminoles: From Removal to Emancipation

After Removal: The Choctaw in Mississippi

Arrowheads and Spear Points in the Prehistoric Southeast: A Guide to Understanding Cultural Artifacts

Art in Mississippi, 1720-1980

Beaches, Blood, and Ballots: A Black Doctor's Civil Rights Struggle

Black and White: Cultural Interaction in the Antebellum South

Black Exodus: The Great Migration from the American South

Black-Jewish Relations on Trial: Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South

Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press

Booker T. Washington in Perspective: Essays of Louis R. Harlan

Britain and the American South: From Colonialism to Rock and Roll

Building Louisiana: The Legacy of the Public Works Administration

Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors: A Young Reader's History

The Cajuns: Americanization of a People

Carville: Remembering Leprosy in America

Changing Channels: The Civil Rights Case that Transformed Television

The Choctaw before Removal

Civil Rights Childhood

Civil Rights Chronicle: Letters from the South

The Civil Rights Movement in America

Civil War Leadership and Mexican War Experience

Civil War Mississippi: A Guide

Clarence John Laughlin: Prophet without Honor

The Color of Jazz: Race and Representation in Postwar American Culture

Come Retribution: The Confederate Secret Service and the Assassination of Lincoln

Confederate Industry: Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War

Confronting Modernity: Art and Society in Louisiana

Conversations with Shelby Foote

Country Music Culture: From Hard Times to Heaven

Covering for the Bosses: Labor and the Southern Press

Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country

Cross the Water Blues: African American Music in Europe

The Cry Was Unity: Communists and African Americans, 1917-1936

Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas

Dixie Before Disney: 100 Years of Roadside Fun

Drilling Ahead: The Quest For Oil In the Deep South, 1945-2005

DuBose Heyward: A Charleston Gentleman and the World of Porgy and Bess

Dunlap

Faulkner: A Biography

Florida's Miracle Strip: From Redneck Riviera to Emerald Coast

Fortune's Favorite Child: The Uneasy Life of Walter Anderson

Freedom Walk: Mississippi or Bust

French Quarter Manual: An Architectural Guide

The French Quarter of New Orleans

Gender and the Southern Body Politic

General Stephen D. Lee

Gettysburg: Sentinels of Stone

Golden Days: Reminiscences of Alumnae, Mississippi State College for Women

Hands in the Till: Embezzlement of Public Monies in Mississippi

Hank Williams, So Lonesome

The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle Over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980

Historic Churches of Mississippi

The Historical Present: Uses and Abuses of the Past

A History of Affirmative Action, 1619-2000

Horn of Plenty: Seasons in an Island Wilderness

Hurricane Camille: Monster Storm of the Gulf Coast

The Identity Question: Blacks and Jews in Europe and America

Inherit the Land: Jim Crow Meets Miss Maggie's Will

Inventing New Orleans: Writings of Lafcadio Hearn

Is There a Southern Political Tradition?

Jews in Early Mississippi

Jimmie Rodgers: The Life and Times of America's Blue Yodeler

Joseph E. Davis: Pioneer Patriarch

Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations

Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist

Katrina: Mississippi Women Remember

Kennedy's Blues: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on JFK

La Salle and His Legacy

The Land of the Smokies: Great Mountain Memories

Leander Perez: Boss of the Delta

Lincoln's Moral Vision: The Second Inaugural Address

Lost Landmarks of Mississippi

Lost Mansions of Mississippi

Lost Plantation: The Rise and Fall of Seven Oaks

Louisiana Governors: Rulers, Rascals, and Reformers

Louisiana Voyages: The Travel Writings of Catharine Cole

Making Haste Slowly: The Troubled History of Higher Education in Mississippi

Manners and Southern History

Mardi Gras, Gumbo, and Zydeco: Readings in Louisiana Culture

Martha Skelton: Master Quilter of Mississippi

Mayor Crump Don't Like It: Machine Politics in Memphis

The Measure of Our Days
Writings of William F. Winter

Memphis

The Mind of the South: Fifty Years Later

Mississippi Archaeology Q & A

Mississippi Forests and Forestry

Mississippi Liberal: A Biography of Frank E. Smith

Mississippi Politics
The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006

The Mississippi Public Community and Junior College Story: 1972-2002

Mississippi Quilts

The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission: Civil Rights and States' Rights

Mississippi: A Documentary History

Mule Trader: Ray Lum's Tales of Horses, Mules, and Men

Multiparty Politics in Mississippi, 1877-1902

Murder at Montpelier: Igbo Africans in Virginia

Music and History: Bridging the Disciplines

My Mississippi

Nairne's Muskhogean Journals: The 1708 Expedition to the Mississippi River

Native American Place Names in Mississippi

Now Is the Time

Oil in the Deep South: A History of the Oil Business in Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, 1859-1945

Operation Pretense: The FBI's Sting on County Corruption in Mississippi

Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895

Pemberton: The General Who Lost Vicksburg

The Peninsula Campaign of 1862: A Military Analysis

Piney Woods School: An Oral History

A Place Called Mississippi: Collected Narratives

Placing the South

Power Plays: Politics, Football, and Other Blood Sports

Prejudice Across America

The Press and Race: Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement

Printmaking in New Orleans

Promises Kept: The University of Mississippi Medical Center

The Pursuit of a Dream

Race and Sport: The Struggle for Equality on and off the Field

Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006 Third Edition

Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990, Revised Second Edition

Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz

Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race: Mississippi after Reconstruction, 1877-1917

Religion in Mississippi

Remaking Dixie: The Impact of World War II on the American South

Reminiscences of an Active Life: The Autobiography of John Roy Lynch

Rencontres sur le Mississipi, 1682-1763

Revolt of the Tar Heels: The North Carolina Populist Movement, 1890-1901

Rich Harvest: A History of the Grange, 1867-1900

The Rise of David Duke

The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC

Robert G. Clark's Journey to the House: A Black Politician's Story

Rock Solid: Southern Miss Football

The Role of Ideas in the Civil Rights South

Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954

Roosevelt's Blues: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on FDR

Saving Louisiana? The Battle for Coastal Wetlands

A Scottsboro Case in Mississippi: The Supreme Court and Brown v. Mississippi

Searching for Red Eagle: A Personal Journey into the Spirit World of Native America

Seminole Burning: A Story of Racial Vengeance

Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture

Shelby Foote: A Writer's Life

Shelby Foote: Novelist and Historian

The Sinking of the USS Cairo

The Sixteenth Mississippi Infantry: Civil War Letters and Reminiscences

Slavery and Frontier Mississippi, 1720-1835

Slavery and the American South

Slavery, Propaganda, and the American Revolution

Sonny Montgomery: The Veteran's Champion

The South and the Caribbean

Southern Belle

The Spirit of Black Hawk: A Mystery of Africans and Indians

Steamboats and the Cotton Economy: River Trade in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta

Strawberry Plains Audubon Center: Four Centuries of a Mississippi Landscape

TABASCO®: An Illustrated History

Thomas Jefferson on Wine

Threading the Generations: A Mississippi Family's Quilt Legacy

Three Lives for Mississippi

Timber: A Photographic History of Mississippi Forestry

A Time to Speak: Speeches by Jack Reed

Touring Literary Mississippi

The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760

Triumph of Good Will: How Terry Sanford Beat a Champion of Segregation and Reshaped the South

A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz

Trumpet Records: Diamonds on Farish Street

TVA Photography: Thirty Years of Life in the Tennessee Valley

The University of Mississippi School of Law
A Sesquicentennial History

The University of Mississippi: A Sesquicentennial History

Vicksburg: Sentinels of Stone

Victorian Houses of Mississippi

Vietnam and the Southern Imagination

Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau

Waking Up to War: The Shock of Pearl Harbor

Waltz the Hall: The American Play Party

We Saw Lincoln Shot: One Hundred Eyewitness Accounts

Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination

Without Regard to Race: The Other Martin Robison Delany

Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965

The Yazoo River

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On Sunday, November 22 from 3–5 p.m. the University Press of Mississippi will be holding its annual BOOKFRIENDS fall membership party at The Auditorium Restaurant at the Duling School. This year’s party will honor the memory of Willie Morris on the seventy-fifth anniversary of his birth. To mark the occasion UPM is featuring a new, limited edition of the quintessential Morris essay, My Two

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