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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.
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]
Old Times on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain. It was published in 1876. A serialized version of the work first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly Magazine published in 1875. It was later incorporated into his 1883 work, Life on the Mississippi.
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.
Florence Carson Warfield Sillers (September 25, 1869 – April 5, 1958) was an American socialite and historian. A member of an influential American family with colonial ties, Sillers was a prominent figure of Mississippi society and was a founding member of the Mississippi Delta Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
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 ...
Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War published in 1883. It is also a travel book, recounting his trips on the Mississippi River, from St. Louis to New Orleans and then from New Orleans to Saint Paul, many years after the war.
The Vicksburg Times, which became the Vicksburg Daily Times, was a newspaper in Vicksburg, Mississippi in the United States. [1] The paper was established in 1866 by Harvey Shannon and Thomas Bolling Manlove who bought out The Journal.