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		<title>From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse: African American Education in Mississippi, 1862-1875</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Span, Christopher M. From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse: African American Education in Mississippi, 1862-1875.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. 264 pp. $35.00 (hardcover)
From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse is centered on the debate over the control of and purpose of black schools. The book is also a thorough inspection of the political landscape and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Historic Photos of Mississippi</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[McKee, Anne B. Historic Photos of Mississippi.
Nashville: Turner Publishing Co., 2009. 216 pp. $39.95 (hardcover)
Anne McKee, the author of Historic Photos of Mississippi, is also a literary and performing artist who performs as a storyteller, humorist, public speaker, writer, and creator of Mississippi heritage projects. She is a founder of the Mississippi Writers Guild and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tales of Tom Wilburn</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wilburn, Thomas L. and Jeannine K. Smith. Tales of Tom Wilburn.
Baltimore: Gateway Press, 2007. 378 pp. $22.75 (paperback)
Tom Wilburn is a storyteller, and his recollections of the people of Artesia, Lowndes County, and beyond make the
title of this book most appropriate. It is a collection of tales: tales of his childhood, his family and neighbors, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Faulkner</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trefzer, Annette, and Ann J. Abadie, editors. Global Faulkner.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. 194 pp. $55.00 (hardcover)
The eleven essays in this volume were originally presented as papers at the thirty third annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference held in Oxford, Mississippi, in 2006. The theme, “Global Faulkner,” refers not only to the author’s worldwide impact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mystery and Meaning: What it Means to Believe in God</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holley, David M. Mystery and Meaning: What it Means to Believe in God.
Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. 256 pp. $29.95 (paperback)
How does a person come to a system of belief? Is belief something external to be embraced without question? Is it fully formed or is it something we determine for ourselves through rational consideration, logical deliberation, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Promises I Made My Mother</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haskell, Sam. Promises I Made My Mother.
New York: Ballantine Books, 2009. 236 pp. $24.00 (hardcover)
Sam Haskell is the quintessential boy next door your mother wants you to marry. He is that good. Promises I Made My Mother, his first book co-authored by David Rensin, is less a memoir than a dedication to his mother. Haskell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After the Verdict: Crossing the Line</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Griggs, Lamon K. After the Verdict: Crossing the Line.
Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2009. 612 pp. $24.99 (paperback)
After the Verdict: Crossing the Line, written by Lamon K. Griggs, is a fascinating book of details relating to one man’s experiences, but it is lacking because of grammatical errors and personal feelings.
The beginning of the book makes the reader [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Larry Brown and the Blue-Collar South</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cash, Jean W. and Keith Perry, eds. Larry Brown and the Blue-Collar South.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2008. 240 pp. $50.00 (hardcover)
On first sight, the front cover of this book’s jacket may lead one to believe she is opening the pages of a short fiction read about middle-class southerners. That idea may be further expounded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Masters of the Mississippi Gulf Coast: George Ohr, Dusti Bongé, Walter Anderson, Richmond Barthé</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Black, Patti Carr. American Masters of the Mississippi Gulf Coast: George Ohr, Dusti Bongé, Walter Anderson, Richmond Barthé. 
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. 104 pp. $35.00 (hardcover)
The National Endowment for the Arts started a major program in 2005 called American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius with the goal to expose Americans to our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plague Among the Magnolias: The 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Mississippi</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nuwer, Deanne Stephens. Plague Among the Magnolias: The 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Mississippi.
Tuscaloosa: University Press of Alabama, 2009.
188 pp. $34.95 (hardcover)
In 1878, Mississippi had emerged out of Reconstruction hostile and suspicious of any authority outside its state lines. Once the Union troops had left Mississippi soil, Mississippi reasserted itself as a sovereign state, free [...]]]></description>
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