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A History of Mississippi 2 vols. (1973), thorough coverage by scholars; Mitchell, Dennis J., A New History of Mississippi (2014) Ownby, Ted et al. eds. The Mississippi Encyclopedia (2017) Sansing, David G. Making Haste Slowly: The Troubled History of Higher Education in Mississippi (University Press of Mississippi, 2004) Skates, John Ray.
The Mississippi Historical Society was relaunched for a third time in 1952 and has maintained itself in continuous operation ever since. [3] For a brief year between 1952 and 1953 MHS was active, falling once more into dormancy until its most successful upstart in 1964 with the production of J. F. H. Claiborne’s book "Mississippi as a Province, Territory, and State". [7]
A Place Called Mississippi: Collected Narratives is a 1997 non-fiction book edited by Marion Barnwell and published by the University Press of Mississippi.It is a collection of text documents about the State of Mississippi.
John Knox Bettersworth (1909-1991) was a history professor and author in Mississippi. [1] [2]James W. Loewen wrote critically of the bigotry and inaccuracy in Betterworth's high school textbooks that were standard in Mississippi schools for decades [3] and Betterworth's work was contrasted with the textbook Loewen and Charles Sallis co-edited in 1974 in Sallis's obituary. [4]
Over the course of his career, Marszalek has published more than 300 articles and book reviews and written or edited 13 books. [1] [5] His research has primarily focused on the American Civil War, specifically Civil War generals Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, and Henry Halleck, but he has also written on local Mississippi history, the history of racial conflict at West Point, and the ...
His other book, In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Princeton, 2007), [4] [5] won the 2008 Lillian Smith Book Award by the Southern Regional Council, the McLemore Prize for the Best Mississippi History Book, and the nonfiction prize given by the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters.
Statistics show that Mississippi's children have gone from having almost the worst scores on the standardized national reading test for fourth-graders in 2013 to narrowly exceeding the national ...
David Gaffney Sansing (June 15, 1933 – July 6, 2019) [1] was a history professor and author in Mississippi who wrote extensively about the state's history. He was a professor emeritus at the University of Mississippi at the time of his death.