Mississippi

Many children anticipate and even long for a summer vacation to an exciting destination that they have never visited. This book takes children on a journey across Mississippi....

What if you left a job and the next thing the FBI is after you? Retirement takes a dramatic turn for a successful bank employee when she's ...

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....

In 1882, Mark Twain decided to write a memoir of his experiences growing up with, and later steering steamboats on, the Mississippi River....

God Dust is book 2 in the riveting Broken Cure series How did the New Madrid earthquake of 1811 provide the world's most powerful and dangerous ...

The Greatest Civil War Battles comprehensively covers the events that led up to the siege, the fighting itself, and the aftermath of the campaign....

As the Mississippi rises again, a deep wound threatens to reopen, and Laura must decide if running away once more might be the best way to save herself....

William McCord's audiobook is one of the first examinations of the events of 1964 by a scholar. It provides a compelling, detailed account of Mississippi people and places, including the thousands of student workers who found in the state both opportunities and severe challenges....

To their Mississippi community, the death of Richard Pickering is a fascinating scandal. To Cissy's distraught mother, Caroline, it's an unforgivable crime. But in Cissy's troubled mind, killing her father was the only way she knew to save the two people she loves most in the world....

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....

During the antebellum years, over 750,000 enslaved people were taken to the Lower Mississippi Valley, where two-thirds of them were sold in the slave markets of New Orleans, Natchez, and Memphis....

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....

The policy of Manifest Destiny said America was a morally superior nation that had the right to build an empire from the East Coast to the West Coast, much to the detriment of the Native Americans who stood in the way....

Although Twain spent the first 30 years of his life working odd jobs, his printing background, sharp wit, and humor helped establish him first as a journalist and later an author....

In the heart of North America, the Missouri, Ohio, and Mississippi rivers come together, uniting waters from west, north, and east on a journey to the south....

This is the true story of Dr. Charles Johnson, an African American preacher who entered Mississippi in 1961 during the summer of the Freedom Rides....

The Rev. Calvin Dill Wilson (1857-1946) was a Presbyterian minister and author. His book Black Masters, first published in 1904, explores the history of wealthy free African Americans who became slave-owners....

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....

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....

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