Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi (2017)

First Edition. Hardback.

As new in dust jacket.

An A-to-Z compendium of people, places, and events from prehistoric times to today

The perfect book for every Mississippian who cares about the state, this is a mammoth collaboration in which thirty subject editors suggested topics, over seven hundred scholars wrote entries, and countless individuals made suggestions. The volume will appeal to anyone who wants to know more about Mississippi and the people who call it home. The book will be especially helpful to students, teachers, and scholars researching, writing about, or otherwise discovering the state, past and present.

The volume contains entries on every county, every governor, and numerous musicians, writers, artists, and activists. Each entry provides an authoritative but accessible introduction to the topic discussed.

The Mississippi Encyclopedia also features long essays on agriculture, archaeology, the civil rights movement, the Civil War, drama, education, the environment, ethnicity, fiction, folklife, foodways, geography, industry and industrial workers, law, medicine, music, myths and representations, Native Americans, nonfiction, poetry, politics and government, the press, religion, social and economic history, sports, and visual art. It includes solid, clear information in a single volume, offering with clarity and scholarship a breadth of topics unavailable anywhere else. This book also includes many surprises readers can only find by browsing.

Ted Ownby, Oxford, Mississippi, director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, is professor of history and southern studies at the University of Mississippi as well as author and editor of multiple works of southern history.

Charles Reagan Wilson, Oxford, Mississippi, recently retired as the Kelly Gene Cook Chair of History and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi and is the author of multiple works of southern history and general editor of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.

Ann J. Abadie, Oxford, Mississippi, was associate director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi and coeditor of numerous scholarly collections from the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference.

Odie Lindsey, Nashville, Tennessee, teaches at Vanderbilt University and is author of We Come to Our Senses and other works of fiction.

James G. Thomas, Jr., Oxford, Mississippi, is associate director for publications at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, the editor of multiple works on southern literature, and was managing editor of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.

1600 pages (approx.), 8 1/2 x 11 inches, 294 b&w illustrations, index