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Cahokia

Author : Timothy R. Pauketat
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143117475
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Cahokia written by Timothy R. Pauketat and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story of a lost city and an unprecedented American civilization located in modern day Illinois near St. Louis While Mayan and Aztec civilizations are widely known and documented, relatively few people are familiar with the largest prehistoric Native American city north of Mexico-a site that expert Timothy Pauketat brings vividly to life in this groundbreaking book. Almost a thousand years ago, a city flourished along the Mississippi River near what is now St. Louis. Built around a sprawling central plaza and known as Cahokia, the site has drawn the attention of generations of archaeologists, whose work produced evidence of complex celestial timepieces, feasts big enough to feed thousands, and disturbing signs of human sacrifice. Drawing on these fascinating finds, Cahokia presents a lively and astonishing narrative of prehistoric America.

Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society

Author : Mississippi Historical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society written by Mississippi Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tumult And Silence At Second Creek

Author : Winthrop D. Jordan
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807120392
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Tumult And Silence At Second Creek written by Winthrop D. Jordan and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the war-fevered spring and summer of 1861, a group of slaves in Adams County, Mississippi, conspired to gain their freedom by overthrowing and murdering their white masters. The conspiracy was discovered, the plotters were arrested and tried, and at least forty slaves in and around Natchez were hanged. By November the affair was over, and the planters of the district united to conceal the event behind a veil of silence. In 1971, Winthrop D. Jordan came upon the central document, previously unanalyzed by modern scholars, upon which this extraordinary book is based - a record of the testimony of some of the accused slaves as they were interrogated by a committee of planters determined to ferret out what was going on. This discovery led him on a twenty-year search for additional information about the aborted rebellion. Because no official report or even newspaper account of the plot existed, the search for evidence became a feat of historical detection. Jordan gathered information from every possible source - the private letters and diaries of members of the families involved in suppressing the conspiracy and of people who recorded the rumors that swept the Natchez area in the unsettled months following the beginning of the war; letters from Confederate soldiers concerned about the events back home; the journal of a Union officer who heard of the plot; records of the postwar Southern Claims Commission; census documents; plantation papers; even gravestones. What has emerged from this odyssey of research is a brilliantly written re-creation of one of the last slave conspiracies in the United States. It is also a revealing portrait of the Natchez region at the very beginning of the CivilWar, when Adams County was one of the wealthiest communities in the nation and a few powerful families interconnected by marriage and business controlled not only a large black population but the poorer whites as well. In piecing together the fragments of extant information about the conspiracy, Jordan has produced a vivid picture of the plantation slave community in southwestern Mississippi in 1861 - its composition and distribution; the degree of mobility permitted slaves; the ways information was passed around slave quarters and from plantation to plantation; the possibilities for communication with town slaves, free blacks, and white abolitionists. Jordan also explores the treatment of blacks by their owners, the kinds of resentments the slaves harbored, the sacrifices they were willing to make to protect or avenge abused family members, and the various ways in which they viewed freedom. Tumult and Silence at Second Creek is a major work by one of the most distinguished scholars of slavery and race relations. Winthrop D. Jordan's study of the slave society of the Natchez area at the onset of the Civil War is a landmark contribution to the field. More than that, his exhaustive and resourceful search for documentation and his careful analysis of sources make the study an extended and innovative essay on the nature of historical evidence and inference.

Hattiesburg

Author : William Sturkey
Publisher : Belknap Press
ISBN 13 : 0674976355
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Hattiesburg written by William Sturkey and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Zócalo Public Square Book Prize Benjamin L. Hooks Award Finalist “An insightful, powerful, and moving book.” —Kevin Boyle, author of Arc of Justice “Sturkey’s clear-eyed and meticulous book pulls off a delicate balancing act. While depicting the terrors of Jim Crow, he also shows how Hattiesburg’s black residents, forced to forge their own communal institutions, laid the organizational groundwork for the civil rights movement.” —New York Times If you really want to understand Jim Crow—what it was and how African Americans rose up to defeat it—you should start by visiting Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, the heart of the historic black downtown. There you can still see remnants of the shops and churches where, amid the violence and humiliation of segregation, men and women gathered to build a remarkable community. Hattiesburg takes us into the heart of this divided town and deep into the lives of families on both sides of the racial divide to show how the fabric of their existence was shaped by the changing fortunes of the Jim Crow South. “Sturkey’s magnificent portrait reminds us that Mississippi is no anachronism. It is the dark heart of American modernity.” —Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk “When they are at their best, historians craft powerful, compelling, often genre-changing pieces of history...William Sturkey is one of those historians...A brilliant, poignant work.” —Charles W. McKinney, Jr., Journal of African American History

Proceedings of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association ...

Author : Organization of American Historians
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association ... written by Organization of American Historians and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Proceedings of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association

Author : Mississippi Valley Historical Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association written by Mississippi Valley Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. for 1922-1923 and 1923-1924 includes Directory of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association.

Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967

Author :
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617034183
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967 written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1981 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mississippi River Tragedies

Author : Christine A. Klein
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479825387
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Mississippi River Tragedies written by Christine A. Klein and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read a free excerpt here! American engineers have done astounding things to bend the Mississippi River to their will: forcing one of its tributaries to flow uphill, transforming over a thousand miles of roiling currents into a placid staircase of water, and wresting the lower half of the river apart from its floodplain. American law has aided and abetted these feats. But despite our best efforts, so-called “natural disasters” continue to strike the Mississippi basin, as raging floodwaters decimate waterfront communities and abandoned towns literally crumble into the Gulf of Mexico. In some places, only the tombstones remain, leaning at odd angles as the underlying soil erodes away. Mississippi River Tragedies reveals that it is seductively deceptive—but horribly misleading—to call such catastrophes “natural.” Authors Christine A. Klein and Sandra B. Zellmer present a sympathetic account of the human dreams, pride, and foibles that got us to this point, weaving together engaging historical narratives and accessible law stories drawn from actual courtroom dramas. The authors deftly uncover the larger story of how the law reflects and even amplifies our ambivalent attitude toward nature—simultaneously revering wild rivers and places for what they are, while working feverishly to change them into something else. Despite their sobering revelations, the authors’ final message is one of hope. Although the acknowledgement of human responsibility for unnatural disasters can lead to blame, guilt, and liability, it can also prod us to confront the consequences of our actions, leading to a liberating sense of possibility and to the knowledge necessary to avoid future disasters.

Bulletin

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1034 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Proceedings

Author : Organization of American Historians
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings written by Organization of American Historians and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Directory of the ... association ... to February 9, 1924:" v. 11, pt. 1, p. [143]-164.

The Mississippi Encyclopedia

Author : Ted Ownby
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496811577
Total Pages : 2548 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book The Mississippi Encyclopedia written by Ted Ownby and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 2548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipient of the 2018 Special Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and Recipient of a 2018 Heritage Award for Education from the Mississippi Heritage Trust 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.

Geophysical Abstracts

Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geophysical Abstracts written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bibliography of North American Geology, 1929-1939

Author : Emma Mertins Thom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1624 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bibliography of North American Geology, 1929-1939 written by Emma Mertins Thom and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 1624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Colonial Mississippi

Author : Christian Pinnen
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496832906
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Colonial Mississippi written by Christian Pinnen and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial Mississippi: A Borrowed Land offers the first composite of histories from the entire colonial period in the land now called Mississippi. Christian Pinnen and Charles Weeks reveal stories spanning over three hundred years and featuring a diverse array of individuals and peoples from America, Europe, and Africa. The authors focus on the encounters among these peoples, good and bad, and the lasting impacts on the region. The eighteenth century receives much-deserved attention from Pinnen and Weeks as they focus on the trials and tribulations of Mississippi as a colony, especially along the Gulf Coast and in the Natchez country. The authors tell the story of a land borrowed from its original inhabitants and never returned. They make clear how a remarkable diversity characterized the state throughout its early history. Early encounters and initial contacts involved primarily Native Americans and Spaniards in the first half of the sixteenth century following the expeditions of Columbus and others to the large region of the Gulf of Mexico. More sustained interaction began with the arrival of the French to the region and the establishment of a French post on Biloxi Bay at the end of the seventeenth century. Such exchanges continued through the eighteenth century with the British, and then again the Spanish until the creation of the territory of Mississippi in 1798 and then two states, Mississippi in 1817 and Alabama in 1819. Though readers may know the bare bones of this history, the dates, and names, this is the first book to reveal the complexity of the story in full, to dig deep into a varied and complicated tale.

Abstracts of North American Geology

Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1048 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Abstracts of North American Geology written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1968-07 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mississippi

Author : Westley F. Busbee, Jr
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118822722
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Mississippi written by Westley F. Busbee, Jr and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are especially proud to announce the publication of Mississippi: A History, the first textbook ever published specifically for use in college-level courses in Mississippi history. In his sweeping coverage of the Mississippi story--from prehistoric times to the present day-- Dr. Westley F. Busbee, Jr., deftly combines narrative and topical chapters to address major political, economic, social, and cultural developments. Having taught Mississippi history in college classes for more than thirty years, Dr. Busbee approaches this unflinching account by asking why Mississippi--with its rich natural and human resources--continues to compare unfavorably with other states in such critical areas as per capita income, adult literacy, and public health. "How and why," he asks, "did all of us who call Mississippi home get where we are? What past mistakes might we hope to correct and what innovative approaches might we take to enhance the future of the state?" The book seeks answers to these meaningful questions through a careful assimilation of information gleaned from a multitude of secondary and primary sources. It also includes original maps and tables as well as a multitude of photographs, selected sources by chapter, a Selected Bibliography of Mississippi History, a series of appendices, and a full subject index. In sum, this innovative survey provides a great new resource for all instructors of Mississippi history, a common base of information for students pursuing knowledge and meaning in the study of their state's past, and a comprehensive and engaging read for anyone interested in knowing more about the fascinating history of the Magnolia State.

The Handybook for Genealogists

Author : George B. Everton
Publisher : Everton Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781890895068
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Handybook for Genealogists written by George B. Everton and published by Everton Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CD-Rom is word-searchable copy of the text.