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

The recent history of a thriving Mississippi educational institution

The lost, melodious history of a Cold War drumbeat that harmonized Caribbean steel with the best of America

How South of the Border and Atlantic Beach reflect cultural shifts in a more inclusive South

With a new epilogue, the definitive biography of one of the world’s greatest filmmakers

The complicated story of the unstoppable expansion of nutria in America’s southern wetlands

The biography of a scholar, an author, an advocate for racial advancement, and a liberal who stayed in Mississippi

An interrogation of the harmful, binary stereotypes leveled against Black and Asian men

The first comprehensive history of literature from a state with perhaps the nation’s richest literary lode

An A-to-Z compendium of people, places, and events in Mississippi from prehistoric times to today

The multigenerational history of one of Louisiana's oldest dynasties and its empire of sugar and land

Conversations with the author of the acclaimed works Gorilla, My Love; The Salt Eaters; and Those Bones Are Not My Child

A recovery of the first book-length study of the blues and the story behind the extraordinary Dutchman who wrote it under Nazi occupation