In 1964, nearly a thousand volunteers went to Mississippi to work with veteran civil rights organizers and local people on various projects. The summer began with three Ku Klux Klan murders and ended with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party's challenge to the state's segregationist delegation. This definitive analytical history--well-written and well-researched--tells the dramatic story.

Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
Written By: John Dittmer

George Byron Merrick chronicles the entire panorama of steamboat life he experienced in the mid-1800s, where he started as a cabin boy and worked up to cub pilot on the mighty Mississippi. Originally published in 1909, Merrick's narrative matches lively stories about gamblers, shipwrecks, and steamboat races with rich descriptions of river life and steamboat operations. George Byron Merrick ...

Manufacturer: University of Minnesota Press
Written By: George Byron Merrick

This classic description of the interaction between the vast central plains of America and the people who lived there has, since its first publication in 1931, been one of the most influential, widely known, and controversial works in western history. Arguing that "the Great Plains environment. . .constitutes a geographic unity whose influences have been so powerful as to put a characteristic ...

Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
Written By: Walter Prescott Webb

This work is intended to be the companion set to Frederick H. Dyer's Compendium of the War of the Rebellion for the Confederacy. Civil War historians and genealogists with ties to Kentucky, Maryland, or Missouri will want to own this volume that details the activities of their units in the Confederacy. This volume is arranged by state; units organized directly by the Confederate authorities from ...

Manufacturer: Heritage Books Inc
Written By: Stewart Sifakis

Manufacturer: James Young?]
Written By: Monette Morgan Young

Lafayette County, Mississippi, was the primary inspiration for what is arguably the most famous place in American fiction: William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. Faulkner once explained that in his Yoknapatawpha stories he "sublimated the actual into the apocryphal." This history of Lafayette County reverses that notion, using Faulkner's rich fictional portrait of a place and its people to ...

Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
Written By: Don H. Doyle

Manufacturer: Melvin Tingle
Written By: A. J Brown

-- 1994 Certificate of Commendation, American Association for State and Local History

Manufacturer: University of Arkansas Press
Written By: Bobby Roberts, Carl Moneyhon

Prentiss County residents, natives, and their ancestors are a vital piece in the puzzle of Mississippi history. In this book, you will see how life evolved from the early days of the county to the present, meeting the people, families and communities that have played a major role in the development of Prentiss County. This volume will allow today's generation to value their roots; to see the ...

Manufacturer: Turner Pub Co

During the nineteenth century, pine logs were lashed together to form easily floatable rafts that traveled from Minnesota and Wisconsin down the Mississippi River to build the farms and towns of the virtually treeless lower Midwest. These huge log rafts were steered down the river by steamboat pilots whose skill and intimate knowledge of the river's many hazards were legendary. Charles Edward ...

Manufacturer: University of Minnesota Press
Written By: Charles Edward Russell