University Press Of Mississippi imprint: 979 books
Prophet Singer
The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2008
Prophet Singer: The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie examines the cultural and political significance of lyrics by beloved songwriter and activist Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie. The text traces how Guthrie documented the history of America's poor and disadvantaged through lyrics about topics as...
Pacific Skies
American Flyers in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2004
From 1941 to 1945 the skies over the Pacific Ocean afforded the broadest arena for battle and the fiercest action of air combat during World War II. It was in the air above the Pacific that America's involvement in the war began. It was in these skies that air power launched from carriers became...
Without Regard to Race
The Other Martin Robison Delany
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Before Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. Du Bois lifted the banner for black liberation and independence, Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885) was at the forefront. He was the first black appointed as a combat major in the Union army during the Civil War. He was a pan-Africanist and a crusader for black freedom...
A Hard Rain Fell
SDS and Why it Failed
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
By the spring of 1969, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) had reached its zenith as the largest, most radical movement of white youth in American history-a genuine New Left. Yet less than a year later, SDS splintered into warring factions and ceased to exist. SDS\'s development and its dissolution...
Peter Bogdanovich
Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
Before he was the Academy Award-nominated director of The Last Picture Show, Peter Bogdanovich (b. 1939) interviewed some of cinema's great masters: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, and others. Since becoming an acclaimed filmmaker himself, he has given countless interviews to the press...
by Christopher Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
The coal fields of West Virginia would seem an unlikely market for big band jazz during the Great Depression. That a prosperous African American audience dominated by those involved with the coal industry was there for jazz tours would seem equally improbable. Big Band Jazz in Black West Virginia,...
Carville
Remembering Leprosy in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2004
Mysterious and misunderstood, distorted by biblical imagery of disfigurement and uncleanness, Hansen's disease or leprosy has all but disappeared from America's consciousness. In Carville, Louisiana, the closed doors of the nation's last center for the treatment of leprosy open to reveal stories of...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Contributions by Walter Benjamin, Lillian Disney, Walt Disney, E. M. Forster, Stephen Jay Gould, M. Thomas Inge, Jim Korkis, Anna Quindlen, Diego Rivera, Gilbert Seldes, Maurice Sendak, John Updike, Irving Wallace, Cholly Wood, and many others
Ranging from the playful, to the fact-filled, and...
by
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Contributions by Gökçe Elif Baykal, Lincoln Geraghty, Verónica Gottau, Vanessa Joosen, Sung-Ae Lee, Cecilia Lindgren, Mayako Murai, Emily Murphy, Mariano Narodowski, Johanna Sjöberg, Anna Sparrman, Ingrid Tomkowiak, Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer, Ilgim Veryeri Alaca, and Elisabeth Wesseling
Media...
Newslore
Contemporary Folklore on the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Newslore is folklore that comments on and hinges on knowledge of current events. These expressions come in many forms: jokes, urban legends, digitally altered photographs, mock news stories, press releases or interoffice memoranda, parodies of songs, poems, political and commercial advertisements,...
Confederate Industry
Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2005
By 1860 the South ranked high among the developed countries of the world in per capita income and life expectancy and in the number of railroad miles, telegraph lines, and institutions of higher learning. Only the major European powers and the North had more cotton and woolen spindles. This book examines...
Mayor Victor H. Schiro
New Orleans in Transition, 1961–1970
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
During the turbulent 1960s, the city of New Orleans experienced unprecedented economic growth, racial tensions and desegregation, political realignment, and natural disaster. Presiding over this period of sweeping change was Mayor Victor H. Schiro (1904-1992), an unassuming, moderate Democrat who...
Grady Baby
A Year in the Life of Atlantaâ??s Grady Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
by Kenneth J. Bindas
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2001
It was for stage bands, for dancing, and for a jiving mood of letting go. Throughout the nation swing re-sounded with the spirit of good times. But this pop genre, for a decade America's favorite, arose during the worst of times, the Great Depression. From its peak in the 1930s until bebop, r &...