How a radical constitution blocked racial progress and upended the class system

The first spiritual biography of a misunderstood believer, the renowned creator of Peanuts

The history of the challenges faced by women of all races in the Crescent City

The definitive guide to two state-of-the-art museums—the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, which opened in December 2017, in celebration of the state’s bicentennial

How New Orleans musicians perpetually renew a grand musical tradition from classical to jazz, funk, and beyond

A paean to the vanishing family cotton farm

The first volume of a comprehensive gathering of tales from the Russian Grimm

The first book-length study of the acclaimed artist who brought journalistic reportage to comics

An examination of five visionary stage plays written and performed during the throes of the movement that shook America

How the collision of folk understandings with medical definitions affect disability and stigma

A vivid canvas of how the black trickster affected the white canon

A study of the seminal nineteenth-century fiddle tune collection and its lasting impact

A visual treasury of disappearing cemeteries and a call to preserve and document them

The preeminent scholar of proverbs addresses the immense cultural impact of proverbs worldwide

An account of life post-Katrina and a paean to shaken, but ever-alluring, New Orleans

A reinterpretation of how ordinary citizens navigated life during wartime

Case studies of Spanish, British, and French imperial ambitions

Over thirty years of interviews with the award-winning author and scholar known for chronicling gay culture

The incredible story of the cofounder of Birdland, a force in jazz and pop, and one of music’s last great hustlers

A gripping reexamination of the abduction and murder that galvanized the civil rights movement

Displaying both Ware’s erudition and his quirky self-deprecation, these collected interviews span his career from 1993 to 2015, creating a time-lapse portrait of the artist as he matures.

How iconic autobiographies found incarceration pivotal to the transition between civil rights and Black Power

An omnibus of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama written by Mississippi authors

Speeches from one of Mississippi’s best known and most progressive public servants

A biography of one of the most influential creators and talents of the twentieth century

Oral histories gathered by three graduates of a major high school in Jackson, Mississippi

Recent scholarship that expands the boundaries of Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic

Shocking testimonials of the brutality committed against those fighting for freedom

How children and adults collaborated to create some of the most beloved works in literature

Covering the span of his forty-year career, a collection of eloquent essays by one of the South’s favorite writers

The true story of mob vengeance on two innocent Native American teenagers in Oklahoma

How Caribbean artists and activists counteract the apparently irresistible lure of the tourist dollar

A biography of the proper Charlestonian who wrote of the Gullahs of Catfish Row and inspired a Gershwin masterpiece

Interviews with the director of William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!, Australia, and The Great Gatsby

Spectacular photographs of musicians in the cradle of the blues

The definitive book about cartoons, picture books, comics, and animation in mainland China

Collected interviews with the world-renowned fiction author of Fishing the Sloe-Black River, Let the Great World Spin, and TransAtlantic

How motivated Christians confronted the hypocrisy that separated races on the Sabbath

Examinations of the many influences on Faulkner’s fiction

Essays that study mobility, place, and spatial imagination in the Nobel laureate’s work