Misisipi

New Orleans was the largest city - and one of the richest - in the Confederacy, protected in part by Fort Jackson, which was just sixty-five miles down the Mississippi River....

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

Holt Walker and his sister, Shelly, are doing their best to prove that a murderous bull shark is the culprit for a host of bodies that have been found in their section of the Mississippi River....

In this stirring collection, NPR tells stories large and small: of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and the March on Washington; of Pullman porters, and women who baked pies to support the Montgomery bus boycott....

James Meredith’s struggle to integrate the University of Mississippi in 1962 is still remembered vividly, but the Little Rock Nine are frequently overlooked when it comes to discussing the Civil Rights Movement....

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...

Midnight Moon, a novel set in Midnight, Mississippi, in the 1980s...explores close childhood friendships in the context of a tight-knit community. The hard work of a group of young friends brings their community together in a very unexpected way....

In 1953, an influential cotton farmer from Mississippi on business in Chicago killed a young Black female college student on his last night in town after she refused his sexual advances. The murder was witnessed by several people, including the victim’s White classmate and friend....

American Legends: The Life of Black Hawk chronicles the life of the Sauk leader who defiantly fought to save his people's homeland, but it also humanizes one of the most famous Native Americans in American history....

There could have been two defendants in the resulting case: James Ford Seale for kidnapping and murder, and the State of Mississippi for complicity....

The Black River flows from Missouri into Arkansas, east of Branson and west of the Bootheel. It meanders where the foothills of the Ozarks begin to rise out of the Mississippi plain....

Read with your ears and listen with your heart. Travel through history with a streamZcast.com compendium of history and its myriad voices....

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....

Brian Longfield’s life has somehow gone in the wrong direction. His wife has died, and he wonders whether he will ever feel happy again. But life does go on, and in unexpected ways....

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....

The female corpse snagged along the Mississippi riverbank wasn’t the only life that washed ashore that year....

As a white woman and a Holocaust refugee, Marione was the most unlikely of heroes in the fight for civil rights for African Americans. This is her empowering story - a tale of courage, strength, and determination....

Listeners learn about the powerful figures and emerging leaders who joined the over 200-mile walk that became known as the "March Against Fear"....

Into the Whirlwind, the third volume of the series Main Street: The History of Buffalo, tells the story of the years leading up to the American ...

A novel about adventure, family, faith and the character of a man who touched generations....