The Mississippi Encyclopedia (EPUB) von Ted Ownby

An A-to-Z compendium of people, places, and events in Mississippi from prehistoric times to today

Recipient of the 2018 Special Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and LettersandRecipient of a 2018 Heritage Award for Education from the Mississippi Heritage Trust

The perfect book for every Mississippian who cares about the state, this is a mammoth collaboration in which thirty subject editors suggested topics, over seven hundred scholars wrote entries, and countless individuals made suggestions. The volume will appeal to anyone who wants to know more about Mississippi and the people who call it home. The book will be especially helpful to students, teachers, and scholars researching, writing about, or otherwise discovering the state, past and present.

The volume contains entries on every county, every governor, and numerous musicians, writers, artists, and activists. Each entry provides an authoritative but accessible introduction to the topic discussed.The Mississippi Encyclopedia also features long essays on agriculture, archaeology, the civil rights movement, the Civil War, drama, education, the environment, ethnicity, fiction, folklife, foodways, geography, industry and industrial workers, law, medicine, music, myths and representations, Native Americans, nonfiction, poetry, politics and government, the press, religion, social and economic history, sports, and visual art. It includes solid, clear information in a single volume, offering with clarity and scholarship a breadth of topics unavailable anywhere else. This book also includes many surprises readers can only find by browsing.

Ted Ownby (Editor)
Ted Ownby is William F. Winter Professor of History and professor of southern studies at the University of Mississippi. He is editor ofThe Role of Ideas in the Civil Rights South,Manners and Southern History,The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi, andBlack and White: Cultural Interaction in the Antebellum South and coeditor ofClothing and Fashion in Southern History, The Mississippi Encyclopedia,andSouthern Religion, Southern Culture: Essays Honoring Charles Reagan Wilson, all published by University Press of Mississippi.

Charles Reagan Wilson (Editor)
Charles Reagan Wilson recently retired as the Kelly Gene Cook Chair of History and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi and is the author of multiple works of southern history and general editor ofThe New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.

Ann J. Abadie (Editor)
Ann J. Abadie is former associate director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi and coeditor of numerous scholarly collections from the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference.

Odie Lindsey (Editor)
Odie Lindsey teaches at Vanderbilt University and is author ofWe Come to Our Senses and other works of fiction.

James G. Thomas Jr. (Editor)
James G. Thomas, Jr. is associate director at the University of Mississippis Center for the Study of Southern Culture. He is an editor of a variety of works that focus on the American South, includingThe New Encyclopedia of Southern CultureandThe Mississippi Encyclopedia.