This collection of exciting letters and diaries documents Belle Edmondson’s active role behind the scenes in the Civil War and reveals her to have been a courier, a gatherer of intelligence, and a smuggler of contraband on behalf of southern troops in west Tennessee.

A fact-filled, light-hearted book that tells everything everyone would wish to know about the South’s fish of choice

This first comprehensive compilation of Mississippi literary biographies; includes all of the state’s writers who wrote and published a work of at least 30 pages in length; featuring approximately 1500 authors

A descriptive profile of the rioters in the bloody civil disorder that devastated sectors of Detroit in 1943.

A look into the rich yet bewildering meanings found in the literature of childhood

An account of the many stinging arachnids that have medical impact

A classic study of the archeological sites and artifacts of the prehistoric Indians who inhabited the lands that are now the state of Mississippi

The intriguing history of the home (and the family) from which Jefferson Davis was called to become the President of the Confederate States of America

An illustrated history of the grand southern plantation homes lost to war, disaster, neglect, and progress

Fascinating lore, practical herb garden design, comprehensive guidance in cultivating and harvesting herbs

Interviews with the author of Dhalgren; Babel-17; Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand; the Nevéryon cycle; and Times Square Red, Times Square Blue

Essays that explore how Faulkner shaped a region and how a region shaped the great writer and his fiction

A classic picture of bygone days and foregone ways

Essays that seek the humorous streak in the Nobel Laureate’s output

A collection of thirteen of the best essays drawn from the earlier work, Eudora Welty: Critical Essays

A history of the distinctive, US Capital sound that fuses hip-hop, funk, and soul

A study of the ever-evolving fairy tale about the murderous aristocrat and his endangered wife

Personal encounters with musical geniuses determined to change the world; includes pieces on Bob Marley, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Nina Simone, Sun Ra, Augustus Pablo, the Neville Brothers, Yabby You, and Nadia Gamal

A study of the tensions between the private and public realms of interracial relationships

A study of one group of Sudanese refugees and their efforts to hold on to their traditions

Interviews with the Indian-American author of The Tiger's Daughter, Jasmine, The Holder of the World, and The Middleman and Other Stories (winner of the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award)

A history and songbook of a once widespread but now nearly forgotten folk entertainment

The Works of the “Gawain”-Poet presents a number of distinctive features: a conservatively edited text; the original manuscript illustrations; apparatus, glosses, and notes on the page with the text; and a full introduction and bibliography. The book should prove useful both as a reading and reference edition and as a graduate text.

The story of an outrageous architectural folly—Longwood, in Natchez, Mississippi—which stands unfinished today as one of the grandest and most opulent of antebellum mansions.

An evaluation that tracks American culture’s shift from modernism into postmodernism

An examination of the swamp’s role in southern cultural, literary, and ecological history