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* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=7974959 Krane, Dale and Stephen D. Shaffer. ''Mississippi Government & Politics: Modernizers versus Traditionalists'' (1992)]
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== History==
 
== Surveys ==
*  Busbee, Westley F. ''Mississippi: A History'' (2005), good survey
*  Busbee, Westley F. ''Mississippi: A History'' (2005), good survey
* Gonzales, Edmond, ed. ''A Mississippi Reader: Selected Articles from the Journal of Mississippi History'' (1980)
* Gonzales, Edmond, ed. ''A Mississippi Reader: Selected Articles from the Journal of Mississippi History'' (1980)
* Krane, Dale and Stephen D. Shaffer. ''Mississippi Government & Politics: Modernizers versus Traditionalists'' (1992), government textbook;  [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=7974959 online edition]
* Loewen, James W. and Charles Sallis, eds. ''Mississippi: Conflict and Change'' (1974)
* Loewen, James W. and Charles Sallis, eds. ''Mississippi: Conflict and Change'' (1974)
* McLemore, Richard, ed. ''A History of Mississippi'' 2 vols. (1973)
* McLemore, Richard, ed. ''A History of Mississippi'' 2 vols. (1973)
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===Specialized studies===
===Specialized studies===
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=2993825 Ballard, Michael B. ''Civil War Mississippi: A Guide'' (2000)]
====Indians and archaeology====
* Wells, Samuel J.. and Roseanna Tubby. ''After Removal: The Choctaw in Mississippi'' (1986) [http://www.amazon.com/After-Removal-Mississippi-Samuel-Wells/dp/1578066840/ref=sr_1_8/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194840943&sr=8-8 excerpt and text search]
* White, Douglas R., George P. Murdock, Richard Scaglion. Natchez Class and Rank Reconsidered. ''Ethnology'' 10:369- 388. {1971}] study of the kingdom of the Natchez people before the French-Indian wars of the 1720s. [http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/pub/NatchezPeople.pdf online]
 
===Pre 1920===
* Ballard, Michael B. ''Civil War Mississippi: A Guide'' (2000) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=2993825 online edition]
* Cresswell, Stephen. ''Multiparty Politics in Mississippi, 1877-1902'' (1995) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=80962695  online edition]
* Cresswell, Stephen. ''Rednecks, Redeemers, And Race: Mississippi After Reconstruction, 1877-1917'' (2006) [http://www.amazon.com/Rednecks-Redeemers-Race-Mississippi-Reconstruction/dp/1578068479/ref=sr_1_6/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194840359&sr=8-6 excerpt and text search]
* Frankel, Noralee. ''Freedom's Women: Black Women and Families in Civil War Era Mississippi'' (1999) [http://www.amazon.com/Freedoms-Women-Families-Mississippi-Diaspora/dp/0253334950/ref=sr_1_7/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194840453&sr=8-7 excerpt and text search]
* Garner, James Wilford. ''Reconstruction in Mississippi'' (1901) reflects [[Dunning School]] historiography; [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=9021413  online edition]
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=61592900 Harris, William C. ''The Day of the Carpetbagger: Republican Reconstruction in Mississippi'' (1979)]
* Kirwan, Albert D. ''Revolt of the Rednecks: Mississippi Politics: 1876-1925'' (1965), classic political history; [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=10553634  online edition]
*  Libby, David J. ''Slavery and Frontier Mississippi, 1720-1835'' (2004) [http://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Frontier-Mississippi-1720-1835-David/dp/1578065992/ref=sr_1_4/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194840842&sr=8-4 excerpt and text search]
* McMillen, Neil R. ''Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow'' (1989)
* Olsen, Christopher J. ''Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi: Masculinity, Honor, and the Antiparty Tradition, 1830-1860'' (2000) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=103663188  online edition]
* Sydnor, Charles S. ''Slavery in Mississippi.'' (1933).
* Thompson, Julius E. ''Lynchings in Mississippi: A History, 1865–1965.'' (McFarland, 2007. 253 pp. isbn 978-0-7864-2722-2.)
* Wayne, Michael. ''The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860–1880'' (1983)
* Wynne, Ben. ''Mississippi's Civil War: A Narrative History.''  Mercer University Press, 2006. 243 pp. isbn 978-0-88146-039-1.)
 
===Since 1920===
* Beito, David T., “‘Let Down Your Bucket Where You Are’: The Afro-American Hospital and Black Health Care in Mississippi, 1924–1966,” ''Social Science History,'' 30 (Winter 2006), 551–69.
* Beito, David T., “‘Let Down Your Bucket Where You Are’: The Afro-American Hospital and Black Health Care in Mississippi, 1924–1966,” ''Social Science History,'' 30 (Winter 2006), 551–69.
*  Bolton, Charles C. ''The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980'' (2005) [http://www.amazon.com/Hardest-Deal-All-Integration-Mississippi/dp/1578067170/ref=sr_1_4/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194839889&sr=8-4 excerpt and text search]
* Crespino, Joseph. ''In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution'' (Princeton University Press; 2007, 360 pages). Examines the conservative backlash among white Mississippians after the state's leaders strategically accommodated themselves to federal and civil-rights demands
* Crespino, Joseph. ''In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution'' (Princeton University Press; 2007, 360 pages). Examines the conservative backlash among white Mississippians after the state's leaders strategically accommodated themselves to federal and civil-rights demands
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=80962695 Cresswell, Stephen. ''Multiparty Politics in Mississippi, 1877-1902'' (1995)]
*  Dittmer, John. ''Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi'' (1994) [http://www.amazon.com/Local-People-Struggle-Rights-Mississippi/dp/0252065077/ref=sr_1_3/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194840453&sr=8-3 excerpt and text search]
*  Dittmer, John. ''Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi'' (1994)
*  Katagiri, Yasuhiro. ''The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission: Civil Rights and States' Rights'' (2001) [http://www.amazon.com/Mississippi-State-Sovereignty-Commission-Rights/dp/1578063884/ref=sr_1_6/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194840453&sr=8-6 excerpt and text search]
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=9021413 Garner, James Wilford. ''Reconstruction in Mississippi'' (1901)] reflects [[Dunning School]]
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=61592900 Harris, William C. ''The Day of the Carpetbagger: Republican Reconstruction in Mississippi'' (1979)]
* Key, V.O. ''Southern Politics in State and Nation'' (1949), has famous chapter on Mississippi, pp 229-53.
* Key, V.O. ''Southern Politics in State and Nation'' (1949), has famous chapter on Mississippi, pp 229-53.
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=10553634 Kirwan, Albert D. ''Revolt of the Rednecks: Mississippi Politics: 1876-1925'' (1965)]
* Lesseig, Corey T. “ ‘Out of the Mud’: The Good Roads Crusade and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Mississippi.” ''Journal of Mississippi History'' 60 (Spring 1998): 51–72. (not online)
* Lesseig, Corey T. “ ‘Out of the Mud’: The Good Roads Crusade and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Mississippi.” Journal of Mississippi History 60 (Spring 1998): 51–72. (not online)
* McLemore, Nannie Pitts. "James K. Vardaman, a Mississippi Progressive," ''Journal of Mississippi History'' 29 (1967): 1-11
* McLemore, Nannie Pitts. "James K. Vardaman, a Mississippi Progressive," ''Journal of Mississippi History'' 29 (1967): 1-11
* McMillen, Neil R. ''Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow'' (1989)
* Nash, Jere, Andy Taggart, and John Grisham. ''Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006'' (2006) [http://www.amazon.com/Mississippi-Politics-Struggle-Power-1976-2006/dp/1578069076/ref=sr_1_4/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194840453&sr=8-4 excerpt and text search]
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=103663188 Olsen, Christopher J. ''Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi: Masculinity, Honor, and the Antiparty Tradition, 1830-1860'' (2000)]  
* Osborn,  George Coleman. ''James Kimble Vardaman: Southern Commoner'' (1981).
* Osborn,  George Coleman. ''James Kimble Vardaman: Southern Commoner'' (1981).
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=52694010 Peirce, Neal R. ''The Deep South States of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Seven Deep South States'' (1974)] see chapter 4 on Mississippi in 1970s
* Parker, Frank R. ''Black Votes Count: Political Empowerment in Mississippi After 1965'' (1990) [http://www.amazon.com/Black-Votes-Count-Empowerment-Mississippi/dp/0807842745/ref=sr_1_5/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194840453&sr=8-5 excerpt and text search]
* Peirce, Neal R. ''The Deep South States of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Seven Deep South States'' (1974)] see chapter 4 on Mississippi in 1970s [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=52694010  online edition]
* Ownby, Ted. ''American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty & Culture, 1830-1998 (1998) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=101542898 online edition]
* Ownby, Ted. ''American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty & Culture, 1830-1998 (1998) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=101542898 online edition]
* Silver, James W. ''Mississippi: The Closed Society'' (1963)
* Silver, James W. ''Mississippi: The Closed Society'' (1963)
* Smith,  Lewis H. and Robert S. Herren, "Mississippi" in Richard P. Nathan, Fred C. Doolittle, eds. ''Reagan and the States'' (1987), pp. 208-30.
* Smith,  Lewis H. and Robert S. Herren, "Mississippi" in Richard P. Nathan, Fred C. Doolittle, eds. ''Reagan and the States'' (1987), pp. 208-30.
* Sydnor, Charles S. ''Slavery in Mississippi.'' (1933).
* Thompson, Julius E. ''Lynchings in Mississippi: A History, 1865–1965.'' (McFarland, 2007. 253 pp. isbn 978-0-7864-2722-2.)
* Wayne, Michael. ''The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860–1880'' (1983)
* [http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/pub/NatchezPeople.pdf White, Douglas R., George P. Murdock, Richard Scaglion. Natchez Class and Rank Reconsidered. ''Ethnology'' 10:369- 388. {1971}] study of the kingdom of the Natchez people before the French-Indian wars of the 1720s.
* Wynne, Ben. ''Mississippi’s Civil War: A Narrative History.''  Mercer University Press, 2006. 243 pp. isbn 978-0-88146-039-1.)


==Local and regional histories==
==Local and regional histories==
*  Bolton, Charles C. ''Poor Whites of the Antebellum South: Tenants and Laborers in Central North Carolina and Northeast Mississippi'' (1994)
*  Bolton, Charles C. ''Poor Whites of the Antebellum South: Tenants and Laborers in Central North Carolina and Northeast Mississippi'' (1994) [http://www.amazon.com/Poor-Whites-Antebellum-South-Mississippi/dp/0822314681/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194839889&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
*  Cobb, James C. ''The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity'' (1992)
* Brazy, Martha Jane. ''An American Planter: Stephen Duncan of Antebellum Natchez And New York'' (2006) [http://www.amazon.com/American-Planter-Antebellum-Southern-Biography/dp/0807131415/ref=sr_1_12/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194839889&sr=8-12 excerpt and text search]
*  Cobb, James C. ''The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity'' (1992) [http://www.amazon.com/Most-Southern-Place-Earth-Mississippi/dp/0195089138/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194840106&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Currie, James T. ''Enclave: Vicksburg and Her Plantations, 1863-1870'' (1980) [http://www.amazon.com/Enclave-Vicksburg-Her-Plantations-1863-1870/dp/1934110051/ref=sr_1_31/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194841036&sr=8-31 excerpt and text search]
*  Dollard, John. ''Caste and Class in a Southern Town'' (1957) sociological case study of race and class in 1930s
*  Dollard, John. ''Caste and Class in a Southern Town'' (1957) sociological case study of race and class in 1930s
* James, Dorris Clayton. ''Ante-Bellum Natchez' (1968)
* Helferich, Gerry. ''High Cotton: Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta'' (2007) [http://www.amazon.com/High-Cotton-Seasons-Mississippi-Delta/dp/1582433534/ref=sr_1_2/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194840453&sr=8-2 excerpt and text search]
* Morris, Christopher. ''Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770–1860'' (1995)
* James, Dorris Clayton. ''Ante-Bellum Natchez'' (1968)
* Nelson, Lawrence J. "Welfare Capitalism on a Mississippi Plantation in the Great Depression." ''Journal of Southern History'' 50 (May 1984): 225–50. online at JSTOR
* Morris, Christopher. ''Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770–1860'' (1995) [http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Southern-Evolution-Vicksburg-Mississippi/dp/0195134214/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194840241&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
*  Owens, Harry P. ''Steamboats and the Cotton Economy: River Trade in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta'' (1990).
* Nelson, Lawrence J. "Welfare Capitalism on a Mississippi Plantation in the Great Depression." ''Journal of Southern History'' 50 (May 1984): 225–50. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-4642(198405)50%3A2%3C225%3AWCOAMP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A in JSTOR]
*  Owens, Harry P. ''Steamboats and the Cotton Economy: River Trade in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta'' (1990). [http://www.amazon.com/Steamboats-Cotton-Economy-River-Yazoo-Mississippi/dp/1578066220/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194841390&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Polk, Noel. ''Natchez before 1830'' (1989)
* Polk, Noel. ''Natchez before 1830'' (1989)
* Willis, John C. ''Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta After the Civil War'' (2000)
* Willis, John C. ''Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta After the Civil War'' (2000)  
 
* Woodruff, Nan Elizabeth. ''American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta'' (2003) [http://www.amazon.com/American-Congo-African-Freedom-Struggle/dp/0674010477/ref=sr_1_3/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194841430&sr=1-3 excerpt and text search]
==Primary sources==
==Primary sources==
* Abbott, Dorothy. ed. ''Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and Youth''. Vol. 2: Nonfiction, (1986).
* Abbott, Dorothy. ed. ''Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and Youth''. Vol. 2: Nonfiction, (1986).
* Bond, Bradley G. ed. ''Mississippi: A Documentary History'' (2003)
* Bond, Bradley G. ed. ''Mississippi: A Documentary History'' (2003) [http://www.amazon.com/Mississippi-Documentary-Bradley-G-Bond/dp/1578068436/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194839785&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Moody, Anne. ''Coming of Age in Mississippi''. (1968) memoir of Black girlhood
* Moody, Anne. ''Coming of Age in Mississippi''. (1968) memoir of Black girlhood [http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Age-Mississippi-Anne-Moody/dp/0385337817/ref=sr_1_3/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194839825&sr=8-3 excerpt and text search]
*  Rosengarten, Theodore. ''All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw''  (1974) memoir of a Black Mississippian
*  Rosengarten, Theodore. ''All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw''  (1974) memoir of a Black Mississippian; [http://www.amazon.com/All-Gods-Dangers-Life-Nate/dp/0226727742/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194839862&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]

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Surveys

  • Busbee, Westley F. Mississippi: A History (2005), good survey
  • Gonzales, Edmond, ed. A Mississippi Reader: Selected Articles from the Journal of Mississippi History (1980)
  • Krane, Dale and Stephen D. Shaffer. Mississippi Government & Politics: Modernizers versus Traditionalists (1992), government textbook; online edition
  • Loewen, James W. and Charles Sallis, eds. Mississippi: Conflict and Change (1974)
  • McLemore, Richard, ed. A History of Mississippi 2 vols. (1973)
  • Skates, John Ray. Mississippi: A Bicentennial History (1979)
  • Swain, Martha H. ed. Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives (2003). 17 short biographies

Specialized studies

Indians and archaeology

  • Wells, Samuel J.. and Roseanna Tubby. After Removal: The Choctaw in Mississippi (1986) excerpt and text search
  • White, Douglas R., George P. Murdock, Richard Scaglion. Natchez Class and Rank Reconsidered. Ethnology 10:369- 388. {1971}] study of the kingdom of the Natchez people before the French-Indian wars of the 1720s. online

Pre 1920

  • Ballard, Michael B. Civil War Mississippi: A Guide (2000) online edition
  • Cresswell, Stephen. Multiparty Politics in Mississippi, 1877-1902 (1995) online edition
  • Cresswell, Stephen. Rednecks, Redeemers, And Race: Mississippi After Reconstruction, 1877-1917 (2006) excerpt and text search
  • Frankel, Noralee. Freedom's Women: Black Women and Families in Civil War Era Mississippi (1999) excerpt and text search
  • Garner, James Wilford. Reconstruction in Mississippi (1901) reflects Dunning School historiography; online edition
  • Harris, William C. The Day of the Carpetbagger: Republican Reconstruction in Mississippi (1979)
  • Kirwan, Albert D. Revolt of the Rednecks: Mississippi Politics: 1876-1925 (1965), classic political history; online edition
  • Libby, David J. Slavery and Frontier Mississippi, 1720-1835 (2004) excerpt and text search
  • McMillen, Neil R. Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow (1989)
  • Olsen, Christopher J. Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi: Masculinity, Honor, and the Antiparty Tradition, 1830-1860 (2000) online edition
  • Sydnor, Charles S. Slavery in Mississippi. (1933).
  • Thompson, Julius E. Lynchings in Mississippi: A History, 1865–1965. (McFarland, 2007. 253 pp. isbn 978-0-7864-2722-2.)
  • Wayne, Michael. The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860–1880 (1983)
  • Wynne, Ben. Mississippi's Civil War: A Narrative History. Mercer University Press, 2006. 243 pp. isbn 978-0-88146-039-1.)

Since 1920

  • Beito, David T., “‘Let Down Your Bucket Where You Are’: The Afro-American Hospital and Black Health Care in Mississippi, 1924–1966,” Social Science History, 30 (Winter 2006), 551–69.
  • Bolton, Charles C. The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980 (2005) excerpt and text search
  • Crespino, Joseph. In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Princeton University Press; 2007, 360 pages). Examines the conservative backlash among white Mississippians after the state's leaders strategically accommodated themselves to federal and civil-rights demands
  • Dittmer, John. Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (1994) excerpt and text search
  • Katagiri, Yasuhiro. The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission: Civil Rights and States' Rights (2001) excerpt and text search
  • Key, V.O. Southern Politics in State and Nation (1949), has famous chapter on Mississippi, pp 229-53.
  • Lesseig, Corey T. “ ‘Out of the Mud’: The Good Roads Crusade and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Mississippi.” Journal of Mississippi History 60 (Spring 1998): 51–72. (not online)
  • McLemore, Nannie Pitts. "James K. Vardaman, a Mississippi Progressive," Journal of Mississippi History 29 (1967): 1-11
  • Nash, Jere, Andy Taggart, and John Grisham. Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006 (2006) excerpt and text search
  • Osborn, George Coleman. James Kimble Vardaman: Southern Commoner (1981).
  • Parker, Frank R. Black Votes Count: Political Empowerment in Mississippi After 1965 (1990) excerpt and text search
  • Peirce, Neal R. The Deep South States of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Seven Deep South States (1974)] see chapter 4 on Mississippi in 1970s online edition
  • Ownby, Ted. American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty & Culture, 1830-1998 (1998) online edition
  • Silver, James W. Mississippi: The Closed Society (1963)
  • Smith, Lewis H. and Robert S. Herren, "Mississippi" in Richard P. Nathan, Fred C. Doolittle, eds. Reagan and the States (1987), pp. 208-30.

Local and regional histories

  • Bolton, Charles C. Poor Whites of the Antebellum South: Tenants and Laborers in Central North Carolina and Northeast Mississippi (1994) excerpt and text search
  • Brazy, Martha Jane. An American Planter: Stephen Duncan of Antebellum Natchez And New York (2006) excerpt and text search
  • Cobb, James C. The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity (1992) excerpt and text search
  • Currie, James T. Enclave: Vicksburg and Her Plantations, 1863-1870 (1980) excerpt and text search
  • Dollard, John. Caste and Class in a Southern Town (1957) sociological case study of race and class in 1930s
  • Helferich, Gerry. High Cotton: Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta (2007) excerpt and text search
  • James, Dorris Clayton. Ante-Bellum Natchez (1968)
  • Morris, Christopher. Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770–1860 (1995) excerpt and text search
  • Nelson, Lawrence J. "Welfare Capitalism on a Mississippi Plantation in the Great Depression." Journal of Southern History 50 (May 1984): 225–50. in JSTOR
  • Owens, Harry P. Steamboats and the Cotton Economy: River Trade in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta (1990). excerpt and text search
  • Polk, Noel. Natchez before 1830 (1989)
  • Willis, John C. Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta After the Civil War (2000)
  • Woodruff, Nan Elizabeth. American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta (2003) excerpt and text search

Primary sources

  • Abbott, Dorothy. ed. Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and Youth. Vol. 2: Nonfiction, (1986).
  • Bond, Bradley G. ed. Mississippi: A Documentary History (2003) excerpt and text search
  • Moody, Anne. Coming of Age in Mississippi. (1968) memoir of Black girlhood excerpt and text search
  • Rosengarten, Theodore. All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw (1974) memoir of a Black Mississippian; excerpt and text search
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