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Mississippi Bibliography Books on Mississippi Archer, Chalmers. Growing Up Black in Rural Mississippi: Memories of a Family, Heritage of A Place. New York: Walker and Co., 1992. Adams, Katherine J. and Lewis L Gould. Inside the Natchez Trace Collection: New Sources for Southern History. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. After Removal: The Choctaw in Mississippi. Edited by Samuel J. Wells and Roseanna Tubby. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1986. A Place Called Mississippi. Edited by Marion Barnwell. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997. Alexander, Mary Ellen. Rosalie and Radishes: A History of Long Beach, Mississippi. Long Beach: M.E. Alexander, 1980. Alford, Terry. Prince Among Slaves. New York: Harcourt Brace Jevanovich, 1977. Alston, Alex A. and James Dickerson. Devil's Sanctuary: An Eyewitness History of Mississippi Hate Crimes. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2009. Alvord, Clarence Walworth. The Mississippi Valley in British Politics: A Study of the Trade, Land Speculation and Experiments in Imperialism Culminating in the American Revolution. New York: Russell & Russell, 1959. Andrews, Kenneth T.. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Arnold-Scriber, Theresa and Terry G. Scriber. Ship Island, Mississippi: Rosters and History of the Civil War Prison, Reprint ed. Jefferson: McFarland, 2012. Asch, Christopher Myers. The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer. New York: New Press: Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2008. Ashley, Diane T. and Aaron McCarver. Mississippi Brides: 3-in-1 Historical Collection. Uhrichsville: Barbour Publishing Inc., 2013. Autry, James. Life After Mississippi. Oxford: Yoknapatawpha Pr, 1989. Bailey, John M. Fine Dining Mississippi Style: Signature Recipes from Mississippi's Restaurants and Bed & Breakfast Inns. Brandon: Quail Ridge Press, 2003. Baker, David, Dick Hill, Mem Leake, Bill Lyle, Julian Riley, Boyd Yarbrough. Images of America: Tupelo. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2013. Baker, Lewis. The Percys of Mississippi: Politics and Literature in the New South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983. Baldwin, Joseph G. The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi: A Series of Sketches. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. Ball, Howard. Justice in Mississippi: The Murder Trial of Edgar Ray Killen. Lawrence: Univ Pr of Kansas, 2006. Ball, Howard. Murder in Mississippi: United States v. Price and the Struggle for Civil Rights. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. Ballard, Michael B. Civil War Mississippi: A Guide. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. Ballard, Michael B. The Civil War in Mississippi: Major Campaigns and Battles. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2011. Ballard, Michael B. Maroon and White: Mississippi State University, 1878-2003. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2008. Ballard, Michael B. Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Barnett, James F. Mississippi's American Indians. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2012. Barrett, Russell H. Integration at Ole Miss. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1965. Barney, Wiliam L. The Secessionist Impulse: Alabama and Mississippi in 1860. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974. Barry, John M. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. Barnwell, Marion. A Place Called Mississippi: Collected Narratives. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997. Bearss, Edwin C. Decision in Mississippi: Mississippi's Important Role in the War Between the States. Jackson: Mississippi Commission on the War Between the States, 1962. Bearss, Edwin C. The Battle of Jackson, May 14, 1863. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1981. Bearss, Edwin C. The Campaign for Vicksburg. Dayton: Morningside, 1985-1986. Bearss, Margie Riddle. Sherman's Forgotten Campaign: The Meridian Expedition. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1987. Beck, Brandon H. The Battle of Okolona: Defending the Mississippi Prairie. Charleston: The History Press, 2009. Belfrage, Sally. Freedom Summer. New York: Viking Press, 1965. Bercaw, Nancy. Gendered Freedoms: Race, Rights, and the Politics of Household in the Delta, 1861-1875. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. Berry, Jason. Amazing Grace: With Charles Eves in Mississippi. New York: Saturday Review Press, 1973. Best of the Best from Mississippi Cookbook: Selected Recipes from Mississippi's Favorite Cookbooks. Edited by Gwen McKee and Barbara Moseley. Brandon: Quail Ridge Press, 2003. Bettersworth, John Knox. Confederate Mississippi: The People and Policies of a Cotton State in Wartime. University Station, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1943. Bettersworth, John Knox, James W Silver, and Mississippi. Department of Archives and History Mississippi in the Confederacy. Baton Rouge: Published for the Mississippi Dept. of Archives and History, Jackson: by Louisiana State University Press, 1961. Biographical & Historical Memoirs of Mississippi: Biographical & Hist. Memoirs of Mississippi, Vol. II, Part II. Edited by Goodspeed's. Gretna: Firebird Press, 1999. Bishop, Randy. Mississippi's Civil War Battlefields: A Guide to Their History and Preservation. Gretna: Pelican Publishing, 2010. Black, Patti Carr. American Masters of the Mississippi Gulf Coast: George Ohr, Dusti Bonge, Walter Anderson, Richmond Barthe. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. Black, Patti Carr. Mississippi Story. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. Black, Patti Carr and Marion Barnwell. Touring Literary Mississippi. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2002. Bloom, Khaled J. The Mississippi Valley's Great Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. Bolton, Charles C. Poor Whites of the Antebellum South: Tenants and Laborers in Central North Carolina and Northeast Mississippi. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994. Bolton, Charles C. The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle Over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005. Bolton, Charles C. William F. Winter and the New Mississippi: A Biography. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2013. Bond, Bradley G. Mississippi: A Documentary History. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003. Bond, Bradley G. Political Culture in the Nineteenth-Century South: Mississippi, 1830-1900. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995. Boudreaux, Edmond. Legends and Lore of the Mississippi Golden Gulf Coast. Charleston: The History Press, 2013. Boudreaux, Edmond. The Seafood Capital of the World: Biloxi's Maritime History. Charleston: The History Press, 2011. Bowers, Rick. Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy The Civil Rights Movement. Washington D.C.: National Geographic, 2010. Brandfon, Robert L. Cotton Kingdom of the New South: A History of the Yazoo Mississippi Delta From Reconstruction to the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967. Broach, Murry. Mississippi Slaves Tell It Like It Was. Greenville: Lillie Ross Productions, 2004. Brown, A. J. History of Newton County, Mississippi. Gretna: Firebird Press, 1998. Brown, Calvin S. Archeology of Mississippi. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1992. Brown, Margaret Kimball and Lawrie Cena Dean. The French Colony in the Mid-Mississippi Valley. Carbondale: American Kestrel Books, 1995. Brooke, Steven. The Majesty of Natchez, 2nd ed. Gretna: Pelican Publishing, 1999. Brown, Larry. Joe. New York: Warner Books, 1991. Brown, Rosellen. Civil Wars. New York: Dell, 1984. Buchanan, Thomas C. Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Burdine, Jane Rule. Delta Deep Down. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2008. Burke, David Allen. Atomic Testing in Mississippi: Project Dribble and the Quest for Nuclear Weapons Treaty Verification in the Cold War Era. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012. Burner, Eric. And Gently He Shall Lead Them: Robert Parris Moses and Civil Rights in Mississippi. New York: New York University Press, 1994. Bush, Chet. Called to the Fire: A Witness for God in Mississippi: The Story of Dr. Charles Johnson. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2013. Busbee Jr., Westley F. Mississippi: A History. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005. Butler, Pierce. The Unhurried Years: Memories of the old Natchez Region. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1948. Bynum, Victoria E. The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Cagin, Seth. We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney and the Civil Rights Campaign For Mississippi.. New York: Macmillan Pub. Co., 1988. Campbell, Bebe Moore. Your Blues Ain't Like Mine. New York: Ballatine Books, 1992. Campbell, Will D. Brother to a Dragonfly. New York: Continuum, 1979. Campbell, Will D.. Providence. Atlanta, Ga.: Longstreet Press, 1992. Carson, James Taylor. Searching For the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. Carson, Robert. America the Beautiful. Mississippi. Chicago: Childrens Press, 1989. Carter, Hodding. The South Strikes Back. Garden City: Doubleday, 1959. Cawthon, Richard J. Lost Churches of Mississippi. Jackson: University Press
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