The Journal of Mississippi History

Published quarterly since 1939 by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History in cooperation with the Mississippi Historical Society.

Summer 2009 Journal of Mississippi History The Journal of Mississippi History is an illustrated quarterly magazine with stimulating articles by distinguished scholars on the history of Mississippi, the Lower Mississippi Valley, and the South, prehistory through the twentieth century. Bibliographies of books and dissertations related to Mississippi history as well as acquisitions of historical materials to college libraries in the state are regular features, along with book reviews and news of people and events in the history community. Issues average 100 pages each. Cumulative indexes are available; an annual index is mailed with each summer issue. To subscribe to the Journal of Mississippi History, become a member of the Mississippi Historical Society.

Vol. 71, No. 2—Summer 2009

Journal of Mississippi History Vintage Archives

Spring 1944: The Location of the Historic Grand Natchez Villages, by Andrew C. Albrecht
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Winter 1951: Dr. Monette's Observations on Emerald Mound, edited by John L. Cotter
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Fall 1952: Names Please: Place Names along the Natchez Trace, by Dawson A. Phelps and Edward Hunter Ross
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Fall 1953: Old Rodney: A Mississippi Ghost Town, by Howard Mitchum
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Winter 1953: Jackson, Mississippi: 1850-1860, by Martha Boman
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Featured Article Archive

Spring 2009: "The Fight for Men's Minds": The Aftermath of the Ole Miss Riot of 1962, by Charles W. Eagles
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Winter 2008: William F. Winter and the Politics of Racial Moderation in Mississippi, by Charles C. Bolton
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Fall 2008: Balancing Agriculture with Industry: Capital, Labor, and the Public Good in Mississippi's Home-Grown New Deal, by Connie Lester
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Summer 2008: Occupied Natchez, Elite Women, and the Feminization of the Civil War, by Joyce L. Broussard
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Spring 2008: Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis: Rivals in Popular Prints, by Harold Holzer
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Winter 2007: Looking for Bob: Black Confederate Pensioners After the Civil War, by James G. Hollandsworth, Jr.
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Fall 2007: Paving the Trace, by Jack D. Elliott, Jr.
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Spring 2007: Movie Theaters in Twentieth-Century Jackson, Mississippi, by Jerry Dallas
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Winter 2006: Mississippi’s Extraordinary Month, November 1973: The Demise of the Sovereignty Commission and of Unprofessional Leadership at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, by Christopher P. Lehman
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Fall 2006: Education Transforms the Mississippi Legislature, by Jere Nash and Andy Taggart
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Summer 2006: The Tupelo Homesteads: New Deal Agrarian Experimentation, by Fred C. Smith
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Spring 2006: Theodore G. Bilbo and the Decline of Public Racism, 1938-1947, by Robert L. Fleegler
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Editor-in-chief

H.T. Holmes, Department of Archives and History

Editor

Kenneth McCarty, University of Southern Mississippi

Assistant Editor

James G. Hollandsworth

Editor-in-chief Emeritus

Elbert R. Hilliard, Department of Archives and History

Managing Editor

Chris Goodwin
Department of Archives and History
P.O. Box 571, Jackson, MS 39205-0571
tel. 601-576-6850
fax 601-576-6975
email: journal@mdah.state.ms.us


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