Mississippi

Born into slavery in Kentucky, the young man known as “Sandy” reinvented himself as “William Wells” Brown after escaping to freedom....

In this new short biography of Ulysses S. Grant, leading scholars provide an accessible introduction to Grant and his legacy. Grant led Federal forces to victory in the Civil War, was the first modern American president, and authored his memoirs....

A captivating retelling of Mark Twain's classic adventure story....

The stories of Black lawyers and judges are rarely told. By sharing George W. Crockett Jr.'s life of principled courage, "No Equal Justice" breaks this silence....

During the civil rights movement, the state of Mississippi created an elaborate spy network....

In August 1955, a fourteen-year-old African American, Emmett Till, was visiting family in Mississippi when he was kidnapped from his bed in the middle of the night by two White men and brutally murdered. His crime: allegedly whistling at a White woman in a convenience store....

In this rousing 1852 romp through the eerie woods surrounding Hannibal, Missouri, and up and down the Mississippi River, 14-year-old Daniel Webster Jackson runs into a counterfeit Underground Railroad when he decides to run away from his foster home....

This tightly constructed tale by PEN/Faulkner finalist Steve Yarbrough tells the story of a Mississippi history teacher who’s determined to unravel the truth about one tragic day in 1962....

Along the fertile banks of the Mississippi River, planter Camille Zeringue transformed a mediocre colonial plantation into a thriving gem of antebellum sugar production....

Based on extraordinary research, Eagles vividly portrays the culture of segregation and the eventual desegregation of one of the last bastions of racial segregation, Ole Miss....

There are countless examples of battles that take place in wars after a peace treaty is signed. The last battle of the Civil War was a skirmish in Texas that Confederate forces won, nearly a month after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox....

Peter Pond, a fur trader, explorer, and amateur mapmaker, spent his life ranging much farther afield than Milford, Connecticut, where he was born and died (1740-1807). He traded around the Great Lakes, on the Mississippi and the Minnesota Rivers, and in the Canadian Northwest....

Emmett Till: Sometimes Good Can Come Out of a Bad Situation opens in a home in rural Mississippi with Renee King, a curious fifth grade girl with a book in her hand, asking her mother, Tonya, "Mommy, what's wrong with his face?"....

L.J. Carter’s move back to Julep, Mississippi has been much more complicated than she ever imagined. She discovers that her momma’s death was ...

Discover the Secrets of Successful Chicken Farming in Mississippi with "Feathered Prosperity" – Your Comprehensive Guide to Poultry Perfection! ...

The Medical Committee for Human Rights was organized in the summer of 1964 by medical professionals to provide care and support for Civil Rights activists....

This dirt-under-the-fingernails portrait of a small-time farmer follows Zack Killebrew over a single year as he struggles to defend his cotton against weeds, insects, and drought....

From lesser-known state figures to the ancestors of Oprah Winfrey, Morgan Freeman, and James Meredith, Mississippi Zion brings the voices and experiences of everyday people to the forefront and reveals a history dictated by people rather than eras....

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

The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition by the United States of America of 828,000 square miles (2,140,000 sq km) of the French territory Louisiane in 1803....