A bewitching convocation of Dixie’s most frightening ghost tales

The experiences of a teacher and his white students on a nationwide trek toward racial understanding

How mid-century periodicals that fostered an indelible middle-class ideal for American women also confronted the happy homemaker stereotype

Enhanced with fifteen new essays, the benchmark of an acclaimed writer’s spunk and sense of place

A biography in interviews of one of America’s best-loved comic strip masters

An analysis of the Leo Frank case as a measure of the complexities characterizing the relationship between African Americans and Jews in North America

A biography of the notable Mexican American cartoonist and an appreciative history of his creation

A refugee child’s witness to Nazi defeat, Soviet occupation, and his family’s debacle in war

What obituaries tell us about our culture, past and present, based upon a study of more than 8,000 newspaper obituaries from 1818 to 1930

A patient’s guide to panic disorders, panic attacks, and other stress-related maladies

Twenty-one interviews with the controversial director of films such as Prospero’s Books and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover

Collected interviews that reveal a man with a powerful mind, a wry sense of humor, and an unshakable commitment to justice

For patients and caregivers an overview of the nature and treatments of inflammatory bowel disease

Eudora Welty’s poignant photographs of Mississippi graveyards and memorial stones paired with Elizabeth Spencer’s exploration of the meanings the photographs yield and the light they shine onto Welty’s fiction

A biography that charts the boom and bust of America’s first celebrity author, once Mark Twain’s chief rival in American literature

A study of the Black Power narratives of Angela Davis, Assata Shakur (a.k.a. JoAnne Chesimard), and Elaine Brown as instruments for radical social change

A collection of interviews charting Spielberg’s evolution from brash young filmmaker to blockbuster king to mature and meaningful film director

A handy guide for identifying the luxuriant wildflowers along the most scenic trail of the Deep South

The juicy biography of the scandalous novelist who lifted the lid off a New England town

A penetrating look into what really gave America’s most notable magazine its distinctive punch

Collected interviews with the unpredictable and controversial filmmaker of M.A.S.H., Nashville, and Short Cuts

Collected interviews with the British filmmaker of High Hopes, Life Is Sweet, and Secrets and Lies

Forty years of interviews with the theater and film director whose reputation has often been overshadowed by his testimony against fellow film industry professionals during the 1952 HUAC hearings

Forty years of collected interviews with the influential filmmaker of The Last Emperor, Last Tango in Paris, and Little Buddha

A close inspection of comic book lovers and their ever-expanding culture

A clear explanation for those who know the illness personally and for those who want to understand them

The first book on the diversity, distribution, conservation, and history of birds in the Magnolia State