Discover America explores each state, district, and territory in the United States of America. From Alabama to Wyoming, this series features vivid images, informative charts, and detailed maps to guide readers through their nation. Each book explores geography, history, culture, and economics to illustrate the diversity of this unique country.
Hailed by none other than Larry McMurtry as “the best young writer to appear in the South since Flannery O’Connor,” Barry Hannah’s immense storytelling gifts are on striking display in this essential work. “Hannah takes fiction by ...
Follows the adventures of Minn, a three-legged snapping turtle, as she slowly makes her way from her birthplace at the headwaters of the Mississippi River to the mouth of river on the Gulf of Mexico.
"This book uses maps, full color photographs, and easy-to-read text introduce the state of Mississippi"--
... 247 Johnson, William, 112 Johnston, Albert Sidney, and Battle of Shiloh, 134 Johnston, Erle, 280, 303 Johnston, Garvin, 330, 374–75 Johnston, Joseph E., 137, 139– 40, 146 Johnstone, George, 37–39 Joint Committee on Reconstruction, ...
Sherman assumed Smith had withdrawn in order to go to Ripley to get resupplied. ... G. eneral William T. Sherman refused to let A. J. Smith's puzzling action deter his determination to get Nathan Bedford Forrest. Sherman, from his.
This book illustrates how the popular will of the moment, through constitutional reform conventions or approved amendments, may have both intended and unintended consequences for generations to come.
Here he reveals himself more personally and forcefully. In both parts of the book are disclosed the mind and heart of the Mississippian who is as haunted as William Faulkner was by the moral chaos of his native land.
Studying the Mississippi convention of 1861 offers insight into how and why southern states seceded and the effects of such a breech. Based largely on primary sources, this book provides a unique insight into the broader secession movement.
Sorensen also served as special counsel to the president. ... “The Man with a Plan: Theodore Bilbo's Adaptation of National Progressivism in Mississippi” (Ph.D. diss., University of Southern Mississippi, 2006), and Larry Thomas Balsamo, ...
Lieutenant Gover- nor Charles Sullivan vowed that blacks “will be able to live in dignity in my Mississippi,” while ex-prosecutor William Waller joined Sullivan in a promise of fair employment for all.3 In August's first primary, ...