A satirical novel unveiling faculty shenanigans on an urban campus

The rollicking story of an aunt and her nephew thrown together to fashion a family

The lives and times of the two most powerful spiritual women in Creole New Orleans

This collection of interviews portrays the Capra legend vividly and demonstrates why the warm relations between Capra and his audiences continue to inspire acclaim and admiration

In a new edition, the history of a regional record company and the blues, gospel, and R&B greats it launched nationally

A collection of interviews with the renowned filmmaker, animator, artist, and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe

A book of eight essays focused on Choctaw history prior to 1830, when the tribe forfeited territorial claims and was removed from lands in Mississippi

A collection of essays focused upon the vestige of the Choctaw tribe that remained in Mississippi after the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek had exiled most of this tribe to the Oklahoma Territory

In this collection of interviews, the filmmaker tells fascinating stories of making motion pictures with such film legends as Burt Lancaster, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Burt Reynolds, and many others

A collection of interviews that documents the twenty-two-year cinematic career of the most internationally celebrated Spanish art-film director since Luís Buñuel

An alarming look at how the media curtailed feminism

A nostalgic romp through the tourist attractions and vintage hotels of the Sunshine State’s Gulf Coast

An examination of early modernism’s revolutionary alliance with the machine

How tales we tell impact our day-to-day lives

The first book to detail the spread and evolution of jazz into cultures around the world

In full color, homage to the thriving world of the South’s wetlands

Thirty riveting months in the life of a common infantryman, one among the “citizen soldiers” who took the Allies to victory

A collection of conversations about the filmmaker whose life and work spanned six decades of film history

From official TVA files, documentary images of the New Deal and its legacy

Photographs and narrative that revive the charming spirit of old New Orleans

A memorable literary record that marks the encounter of two great American writers

A first novel in which a drowned man’s death transforms the life of a man who tried to save him

The biography of an African American cornetist who traveled the country in minstrel shows and circus bands

A history of steamboating along the waterways of one of the most fertile farmlands in America showing the importance of the steamboat industry to the economy of the Deep South

An anthology exploring the politics of language choice in world beat and pop music

The prodigal-son biography of a gospel music legend with the voice of an angel and a hell-bent drive toward self-destruction