The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast

In the span of five violent hours on August 29,...

The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans

The Muscle Shoals Legacy of Fame

Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America's Origin

For readers of Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower,...

Dollars for Dixie: Business and the Transformation of Conservatism in the Twentieth Century

Jewell writes the first history of the Southern...

The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools

In the epic tradition ofEyes on the Prizeand wi...

New Orleans Carnival Krewes: The History, Spirit & Secrets of Mardi Gras

The Germans of Charleston, Richmond and New Orleans during the Civil War Period, 1850-1870

the American South.

New Orleans After the Civil War: Race, Politics, and a New Birth of Freedom

We often think of Reconstruction as an unfinish...

Out in the Rural: A Mississippi Health Center and Its War on Poverty

Out in the Rural is the unlikely story of the T...

No Depression in Heaven: The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Transformation of Religion in the Delta

A study of the inability of the churches to dea...

Thrilling Days in Army Life

General Forsyth U. S. A. 1837-1915 was a United...