A look at a fascinating Deep South region and its distinctive way of life

A Chinese-Eurasian’s autobiographical novel tracing a woman’s dual quest for a writing career and romance

An outsider’s correspondence that documents the fight for civil rights in the Deep South

A critical examination of the Faulkner-Morrison literary connection

In blues lyrics of the thirties and forties a reflection of FDR’s influence on Black America

The often-bloody history of Mardi Gras and the uproar over the government’s enforcement of diversity in Carnival krewes

A portrait of the radical Sandburg before his days of glory in the pantheon of popular writers

A magical story of a stray cat’s transformation into a prodigy who performs at Carnegie Hall; includes block prints by the author

A handbook for interpreting Faulkner’s great novel

The first serious historical examination of a distinctive multiracial society of Louisiana

A comprehensive view of the fascinating folklife in the Appalachian foothills of North and South Carolina

A search for the sources and sounds of an often overlooked sister genre of Cajun and zydeco music

A photographic and historical review of fifty-seven of Mississippi’s most notable antebellum mansions, all long-vanished

The first collection of writings on African American topics by this internationally influential pan-African thinker

The meaning of art, artistry, and the figure of the artist in William Faulkner’s life and fiction. Original essays from the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference held at the University of Mississippi in 1993

An acclaimed southern author’s soul-stirring photographic images of her homeland during the 1930s. Silver Anniversary Edition

The second collection of interviews with the acclaimed Mississippi writer

A study of the fragmented world in the Nobel Prize author’s first six novels

A critical appreciation of the acclaimed science fiction writer and his works

Seven fascinating tales in which southerners surrender to the mesmerizing spell of Italy

How media versions of Cooper’s classic frontier novel have perpetuated the myth of “America”

Collected for the first time, actual eyewitness reports of the Lincoln assassination

A history of the comic book, in which a noted cartoonist demonstrates the aesthetics and power of the medium

A stunning book featuring full-color reproductions of art by American self-taught artists

A widow’s love story of her life with Medgar Evers, the NAACP civil rights leader murdered by a midnight assassin

Collected interviews with the celebrated African American novelist

A stimulating encounter with the vigorous mountain culture and enduring folklife of the Ozarks

The first comprehensive anthology of Native American literature representing tribes of the Southeastern U.S

A comprehensive look at the traditional culture in a distinct region of Appalachia