Old Southwest to Old South
Mississippi, 1798-1840
The first chronicle of Mississippi’s tumultuous coming-of-age
Becoming Ezra Jack Keats
The first in-depth biography of one of the most influential authors of children’s literature
The Welcome
A new edition of the important, long out-of-print novel
The Promise of Good Things
Floral Design for the Fall and Winter Holiday Season
A lovely guidebook for turning floral design visions into reality
Sofia Coppola
Interviews
A collection of interviews with the American filmmaker and actress known for The Virgin Suicides,Lost in Translation, and On the Rocks
Into the Jungle!
A Boy's Comic Strip History of World War II
An exploration of the experiences of war through the comics of an American youth
Conversations with Terrence McNally
Interviews with the Tony Award-winning librettist of Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime and collaborator on the opera Dead Man Walking
Carnival in Alabama
Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile
A lively and exciting analysis of one of the United States’ oldest Mardi Gras celebrations
Boy and Girl Tramps of America
A thorough and honest picture of Depression-era young people forced to ride the rails
Asian Political Cartoons
A comprehensive and heavily illustrated exploration of Asian political cartooning
Tide Lines
A Photographic Record of Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast
Stunning aerial photos that reveal Louisiana’s vanishing landscape
They Also Write for Kids
Cross-Writing, Activism, and Children's Literature
A compelling study of activist cross-writing by authors better known for their work “for adults”
Rethinking Racial Uplift
Rhetorics of Black Unity and Disunity in the Obama Era
A reconsideration of Black unity, racial uplift, and the role of the Talented Tenth
Eudora Welty and Mystery
Hidden in Plain Sight
Intriguing essays on Welty’s literary play with a beloved popular genre
Do You Remember?
Celebrating Fifty Years of Earth, Wind & Fire
The first serious study of one of America’s favorite bands
Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson
Interviews with the queer Jamaican-born Canadian speculative fiction writer and editor known for her novels Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, The New Moon’s Arms, The Chaos, and Sister Mine
Children, Deafness, and Deaf Cultures in Popular Media
An essential study on portrayals of D/deaf experiences in children’s literature and popular culture
Asghar Farhadi
Interviews
Collected interviews with the celebrated international filmmaker of A Hero, A Separation, and Dancing in the Dust, who became Iran’s most prominent director and one of the great dramatist filmmakers of his generation
Emma's Postcard Album
Black Lives in the Early Twentieth Century
A microhistory of the African American experience in early twentieth-century America through the correspondence of one young woman