Mississippi

Jefferson's America sheds new light on one of the key aspects of Jefferson's presidency. Almost everyone who has taken a US history course is familiar with Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase....

New York City newspaper columnist Carter Ransom returns home to Mississippi to face his difficult past, his father's disapproval, and new evidence in a 25-year-old bombing case....

This is celebrated architect Ken Tate’s creative memoir about his life....

The deciding battle of the War of 1812, the Battle of New Orleans, was won by the Americans on January 8, 1815, a few scant weeks after the British and American negotiators signed the Treaty of Ghent that ended the war, at least on paper....

On the heels of having shot an innocent girl while in the grasp of a killer, Detective Peyroux’s first case back is a young Jane Doe washed up on...

Life on the Mississippi (1883) is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War...

April 29, 1863, brought the Civil War to Grand Gulf, Mississippi. Sarah Bassler lost her mother six months before. For two and a half years she ...

This love lost and found and historical novel begins with a current-day vehicle accident on a Mississippi highway. The vehicle chasing an elderly ...

Dive into "Bigfoot in Mississippi: Mysterious Encounters," an electrifying compilation of firsthand accounts shedding light on encounters with the ...

The Battle of Gettysburg stands as one of the most pivotal moments in American history. Fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863, it was a clash between the Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War....

Belle Gunness and the Bender’s were a different breed of criminal, more deadly, and harder to detect. While bank and train robbers rarely harmed their victims, Belle Gunness and the Bender’s took a gruesome pleasure in killing their victims before they robbed them....

Life on the Mississippi expresses the full range of Twain's literary personality. It remains the most vivid, boisterous, and provocative account of the cultural and societal history of the Mississippi Valley, from 'the golden age' of steamboating to the violence wrought by the Civil War....

Maggie Marovich couldn’t save her father or her home from Hurricane Katrina, but she’s dedicated her life to meteorology so she can warn others when the monster storms approach....

When President Thomas Jefferson went ahead with the Louisiana Purchase, he wasn't entirely sure what was on the land he was buying, or whether the purchase was even constitutional....

Even native-born Americans don’t know the Deep South well. It’s a beautiful, deeply forested region with diverse people and a long history. These stories set in Mississippi and Louisiana deal with two mysteries....

The first presidential debate between Republican nominee Senator John McCain and Democratic nominee Senator Barack Obama took place at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi....

This is the first study to explore fully the myth of America as reflected in the nation's popular music....

Nat Love: The Life and Legacy of the Former Slave Who Became the Wild West’s Most Famous Black Cowboy chronicles the colorful life of Nat Love and the legends that sprung up around him over time. You will learn about Nat Love like never before....

At the National Council of Churches, Robert Spike organized American churches to support the passage of the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, to march in Selma and organize in Mississippi....

In 2008, three years after Hurricane Katrina cut a deadly path along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico, researchers J. Steven Picou and Keith Nicholls conducted a survey of the survivors in Louisiana and Mississippi, receiving more than 2500 responses....