Book Reviews

January 9, 2013

The Fall of the House of Zeus : The Rise and Ruin of America’s Most Powerful Trial Lawyer

The Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi : A History

Fannie Lou Hamer : The Life of a Civil Rights Icon

Sources of Light

Sir Bubba

October 5, 2012

The Wildmons of Mississippi: A Story of Christian Dissent

The Legs Murder Scandal

Goldman’s Gold: An Album of Photographs Taken in 1968 of the Marks’ Mule Train.

Culture After the Hurricanes: Rhetoric and Reinvention on the Gulf Coast

Walking is the Worst Exercise: and other Challenges to the Conventional Wisdom of Medicine

Sweet By and By: A Story about Love

July 26, 2012

Burning Crosses and Activist Journalism

Mississippians

Jury Discrimination

Beyond Katrina

From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse

Mississippi Women

When People Were Nice and Things Were Pretty

Let the World Listen Right

Historic Photos of Mississippi

Rising from Katrina

Reconstituting Whiteness

Flags Used by Mississippi during the War Between the States

Give My Poor Heart Ease

Lost Churches of Mississippi

Spies of Mississippi

Code 936

Floodgates

The Cool Woman

March 25, 2011

From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse: African American Education in Mississippi, 1862-1875

Historic Photos of Mississippi

Tales of Tom Wilburn

Global Faulkner

Mystery and Meaning: What it Means to Believe in God

Promises I Made My Mother

After the Verdict: Crossing the Line

Larry Brown and the Blue-Collar South

American Masters of the Mississippi Gulf Coast: George Ohr, Dusti Bongé, Walter Anderson, Richmond Barthé

August 10, 2010

Plague Among the Magnolias: The 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Mississippi

The Education of Mr. Mayfield: An Unusual Story of Social Change at Ole Miss

Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press

A New Day in the Delta: Inventing School Desegregation As You Go

Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC’s Dream for a New America

A Parable of Women: Poems

Epico Bayou

The Sacred Place: A Novel

Down Sand Mountain

Under Siege!: Three Children at the Civil War Battle for Vicksburg

Paco and the Giant Chile Plant/Paco y la Plant de Chile Gigante

Alligator Bayou

Piper Reed Gets a Job

Man in the Moon

Flying Boats & Spies: A Nick Grant Adventure

Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator

A Thousand Never Evers

September 29, 2009

In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir

Barthe a Life in Sculpture

Novel Ideas: Contemporary Authors Share the Creative Process

Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South

Martha Skelton: Master Quilter of Mississippi

Oh Don’t You Cry for Me

Fresh Frozen

Reflections of a Mississippi Magnolia: A Life in Poems

Cane and Able: A Novel

June 29, 2009

The Oral Character of American Southern Literature

Strawberry Plains Audubon Center

Mudbound

Winter Study

Wicked City

January 5, 2009

Faulkner and Material Culture: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2004

Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching

Y’all Vs Us, Thrilling Tales of Mississippi’s Hottest High School Football Rivalries

Gridiron Gold: Inspiring Stories of Legendary Mississippi High School Coaches, Guardians of the Greatest Football Talent in America.

Unmentionables

House Call

Home to Holly Springs

October 1, 2008

With Signs Following: Photographs from the Southern Religious Roadside

Faulkner’s Inheritance: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2005

Growing Up in Mississippi

Southern Sun: A Plant Selection Guide

High Cotton: Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta

The Hour of Our Nation’s Agony: The Civil War Letters of Lt. William Cowper Nelson of Mississippi

The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer

The Air Between

Master of the Delta

June 26, 2008

Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship & Freedom

Erin and Katrina

My Best Friend

When I Crossed No-Bob.

Ferret Island

Katrina: Mississippi Women Remember

Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006

Civil War Leadership and Mexican War Experience