Contributions to the study of race relations from the Civil War to the early 1950s

Scholarly debate about W. J. Cash and one of the most influential books ever written about the American South

The first biography of two integral bluegrass innovators and touchstones of old-time country music authenticity

The first published collection of interviews with the Australian director whose films include the Academy Award-nominated Witness, Dead Poets Society, Green Card, The Truman Show, and Master and Commander

An up-close study of a pinnacle moment in the struggle and of those who fought for change

The inspiring autobiography of a cotton field worker who became a major force for change in Mississippi

A study of Lutz Röhrich, the key folklorist who redeemed and contextualized German folklore after horrific misuses by the Nazis

The first study to trace the evolution of Russian comics from Soviet bête noire to post-Perestroika art form

A biography of the Democratic leader once considered the most important man in state politics

Collected correspondence from arguably the most important folklorist of the twentieth century

A piercing study of the political, economic, and environmental havoc unleashed by the oil industry

A biography of the stunning French movie star and her complex marriage to singer Yves Montand

An infuriating tale of malfeasance among what should have been the state’s most trusted servants

How residents of a changing coastline reconcile sense of place with the Gulf’s encroachment

A contextual investigation of the "Mad Potter of Biloxi," showing him to be far more thoughtful and artful than he was eccentric

A survey and rediscovery of the many noir films directed by a master of the Western

An exploration of a homegrown tradition of unexpected beauty and privacy

A broad overview of the tremendous achievement of Louisiana writers in the Creole tradition

A fascinating collection of interviews with the colorful and provocative director of Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained, and many other films

How Republicans and African Americans took the stage after the fall of a great southern political machine

A firsthand account of the murky, faith-straightening processes by which federal judges are confirmed

The full story behind the "Stage Mother from Hell" and every scandal too shocking for Gypsy: A Musical Fable

Collected interviews with the United States Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner, and author of Domestic Work, Beyond Katrina, and Thrall

A study of pop culture’s representation of a continent’s visual traditions

How the claim to jazz knowledge forges community and forms an understanding of canon

What happens when cultures meet and new creative expressions emerge

An examination of the fireworks and folderol that erupt when folklore and current events collide

A feature dish of the cuisine that has been too long overlooked in New Orleans cooking

A wide-ranging survey of how comics have portrayed southern ways of life

A biography of the stage and screen star who could never escape the role of dashing villain

A passionate native’s salute to the past and present glories of the Crescent City

A consideration of the many manifestations of the action heroine in film, television, contemporary popular literature, comic books, cartoons, and video games

An examination of the entire Left Behind sequence with a combined sensitivity to Evangelical belief and close textual reading

An exploration of the Nobel Lauerate’s work and its interrogations of whiteness

How the interplay of media, race, and one player’s defiance created free agency and changed baseball forever

A thoughtful examination of how a shared sense of place evolves over time

The life story of the Mississippi governor known for his fight for education and racial reconciliation

An opening into the life, novels, fictions, and manifestos of a noted Caribbean author

A history of the periodicals that brought art and sophistication to a rising bourgeoisie in the heartland

A study of four public debates about the meaning of being southern

Collected interviews with the screenwriter of the Academy Award-winning film American Beauty and creator of the Emmy Award-winning television series Six Feet Under and True Blood

A biography of the Queen of Hollywood and her decades of successes and comebacks in film, art, fashion, and journalism

A beautiful illustrated collection of fairy tales about the most iconic and active of Russian magical characters

A new intertextual reading that shows Welty confronting one of western literature’s major forces—the indomitable hero

Essays on the famed activist and preacher, among the first to call for relocation, reconciliation, and redistribution in a post-civil rights America

The photographic record of unprecedented musical discovery and the geniuses of Mississippi’s Hill Country blues

Essays that reveal the public slide into disrepute of once-cherished male sports icons

A full exploration of the history, politics, and aesthetics of the superhero genre

Interviews with the director of The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Cold Mountain

The true life story of Elvis’s original guitarist, the masterful Scotty Moore