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...Thomas A. Tenney Mark Twain and “Life on the Mississippi” . By Kruse Horst H. . With a Foreword by Emerson Everett . Amherst : The University of Massachusetts Press , 1982 . Pp. xx , 184 . $17.50 . Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 478 The South Atlantic...

...L. W. Payne, Jr. Copyright © 1909 by Duke University Press 1909 A New Southern Poet, Stark Young of Mississippi By L. W. Payne, Jr. Instructor in English in the University of Texas Stark Young, of Mississippi, has published two small volumes of verse, The Blind Man at the Window...

...The Editor Copyright © 1902 by Duke University Press 1902 How a Young Man Built Up History in Mississippi In 1893 there came to the Johns Hopkins University from the State of Mississippi a young man who desired to study history. He was a modest, affable, and serious person and gave all his...

...The Editor Copyright © 1902 by Duke University Press 1902 How a Young Man Built Up History in Mississippi In 1893 there came to the Johns Hopkins University from the State of Mississippi a young man who desired to study history. He was a modest, affable, and serious person and gave all his...

...Franklin L. Riley Copyright © 1906 by Duke University Press 1906 Dr. John W. Monette: The Pioneer Historian of the Mississippi Valley By Franklin L. Riley, Professor of History in University of Mississippi John Wesley Monette was born at Staunton, Va., April 5, 1803. In his infancy his family...

...Char Miller Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 ''Gentle Outside Agitator : Stephen Bingham and the Mississippi Summer Project Char Miller The Mississippi Summer Project of 1964 has been considered by partici­ pants and historians alike to have been an indispensable step...

...Elizabeth Studley Nathans The Day of the Carpetbagger: Republican Reconstruction in Mississippi . By Harris William C. . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1979 . Pp. xiv , 760 ; notes, bibliography, index. $37.50 . Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980...

...Ralph A. Wooster The Secessionist Impulse: Alabama and Mississippi in 1860 . By Barney William L. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1974 . Pp. xv , 371 . $14.50 . Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Book Reviews 137 dined to see madness as the triumph...

...Arthur M. Sampley Frost Centennial Essays . Compiled by the Committee on the Frost Centennial of the University of Southern Mississippi . Jackson : University Press of Mississippi . Pp. xii , 610 . $17.50 . Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Book Reviews 139 twentieth...

...A. D. Kirwan The Negro in Mississippi 1865-1890 . By Wharton Vernon Lane . Studies in History and Political Science. Vol. 28 . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1947 . Pp. 308 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 440 The South Atlantic...

...Nash K. Burger Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Elizabeth Spencer s Three Mississippi Novels Nash K. Burger Why is it, William Faulkner was asked at the University of Vir­ ginia, that Mississippi seems very active in a literary way and yet we don t find the same phenomenon...

...W. B. H. Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 Mississippi W. B. H. The current situation in Mississippi is not a suitable subject for a quarterly, with its long gestation period. In the autumn of 1964, for example, correspondents for the New York Times and the Memphis Commercial...

...William H. Cartwright People’s College: A History of Mississippi State . By Bettersworth John K. . University, Ala. : University of Alabama Press , 1953 . Pp. 471 . $4.75 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 Book Reviews 305 cellent Introduction of seventy-nine...

...Francis B. Simkins Revolt of the Rednecks: Mississippi Politics, 1876-1925 . By Kirwan Albert D. . Lexington : University of Kentucky Press , 1951 . Pp. viii , 328 . $4.50 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 424 The South Atlantic Quarterly it can never have...

...Anthony Hutchins The Falkners of Mississippi: A Memoir . By Falkner Murry C. . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1967 . Pp. xxv , 205 . $5.95 . Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 386 The South Atlantic Quarterly tend to be abstract when...

...George A. McLean Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 Mississippi: The Crisis in Review George A. McLean It is a melancholy experience to this native Mississippian to read some of the current spate of books dealing with some of the saddest moments in the history of his state. Walter...

...Eric A. Stanley This essay opens with a reading of a closed-circuit television scene of Duanna Johnson, a black transgender woman who was brutally beaten by Mississippi police while in their custody in 2009. Through this video, I center the question of representation's form, not just its content...

... to work with a Faulkner story or series of stories would do well to consult this book, especially its index. It is not re­ warding to read through consecutively. UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI EVANS HARRINGTON The Papers of Henry Laurens. Volume 10: December 12,1774-January 4, 1776. Edited by David R. Chesnutt...

...Charles S. Sydnor Copyright © 1929 by Duke University Press 1929 PURSUING FUGITIVE SLAVES CHARLES S. SYDNOR University of Mississippi 10. REWARD Ran away on the 22d of December, a dark yellow girl about 25 years of age, tall and well made; she has a mark on her cheek representing a tear...

... postmodern writers by claiming there has been a noticeable drop in the intensity of intellectual activity in the region since the 1950 s. But the strengths of The War Within dwarf its shortcomings; Singal s book is a major achievement in southern studies. UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI RODNEY ALLEN Unity...