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===Specialized studies===
===Specialized studies===
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=2993825 Ballard, Michael B. ''Civil War Mississippi: A Guide'' (2000)]
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=2993825 Ballard, Michael B. ''Civil War Mississippi: A Guide'' (2000)]
* Beito, David T., “‘Let Down Your Bucket Where You Are’: The Afro-American Hospital and Black Health Care in Mississippi, 1924–1966,” ''Social Science History,'' 30 (Winter 2006), 551–69.
* Crespino, Joseph. ''In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution'' (Princeton University Press; 2007, 360 pages). Examines the conservative backlash among white Mississippians after the state's leaders strategically accommodated themselves to federal and civil-rights demands
* Crespino, Joseph. ''In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution'' (Princeton University Press; 2007, 360 pages). Examines the conservative backlash among white Mississippians after the state's leaders strategically accommodated themselves to federal and civil-rights demands
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=80962695 Cresswell, Stephen. ''Multiparty Politics in Mississippi, 1877-1902'' (1995)]
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=80962695 Cresswell, Stephen. ''Multiparty Politics in Mississippi, 1877-1902'' (1995)]
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* Smith,  Lewis H. and Robert S. Herren, "Mississippi" in Richard P. Nathan, Fred C. Doolittle, eds. ''Reagan and the States'' (1987), pp. 208-30.
* Smith,  Lewis H. and Robert S. Herren, "Mississippi" in Richard P. Nathan, Fred C. Doolittle, eds. ''Reagan and the States'' (1987), pp. 208-30.
* Sydnor, Charles S. ''Slavery in Mississippi.'' (1933).
* Sydnor, Charles S. ''Slavery in Mississippi.'' (1933).
* Thompson, Julius E. ''Lynchings in Mississippi: A History, 1865–1965.'' (McFarland, 2007. 253 pp. isbn 978-0-7864-2722-2.)
* Wayne, Michael. ''The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860–1880'' (1983)
* Wayne, Michael. ''The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860–1880'' (1983)
* [http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/pub/NatchezPeople.pdf White, Douglas R., George P. Murdock, Richard Scaglion. Natchez Class and Rank Reconsidered. ''Ethnology'' 10:369- 388. {1971}] study of the kingdom of the Natchez people before the French-Indian wars of the 1720s.
* [http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/pub/NatchezPeople.pdf White, Douglas R., George P. Murdock, Richard Scaglion. Natchez Class and Rank Reconsidered. ''Ethnology'' 10:369- 388. {1971}] study of the kingdom of the Natchez people before the French-Indian wars of the 1720s.
* Wynne, Ben. ''Mississippi’s Civil War: A Narrative History.''  Mercer University Press, 2006. 243 pp. isbn 978-0-88146-039-1.)
==Local and regional histories==
==Local and regional histories==
*  Bolton, Charles C. ''Poor Whites of the Antebellum South: Tenants and Laborers in Central North Carolina and Northeast Mississippi'' (1994)
*  Bolton, Charles C. ''Poor Whites of the Antebellum South: Tenants and Laborers in Central North Carolina and Northeast Mississippi'' (1994)

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History

  • Busbee, Westley F. Mississippi: A History (2005), good survey
  • Gonzales, Edmond, ed. A Mississippi Reader: Selected Articles from the Journal of Mississippi History (1980)
  • Loewen, James W. and Charles Sallis, eds. Mississippi: Conflict and Change (1974)
  • McLemore, Richard, ed. A History of Mississippi 2 vols. (1973)
  • Skates, John Ray. Mississippi: A Bicentennial History (1979)
  • Swain, Martha H. ed. Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives (2003). 17 short biographies

Specialized studies


Local and regional histories

  • Bolton, Charles C. Poor Whites of the Antebellum South: Tenants and Laborers in Central North Carolina and Northeast Mississippi (1994)
  • Cobb, James C. The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity (1992)
  • Dollard, John. Caste and Class in a Southern Town (1957) sociological case study of race and class in 1930s
  • James, Dorris Clayton. Ante-Bellum Natchez' (1968)
  • Morris, Christopher. Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770–1860 (1995)
  • Nelson, Lawrence J. "Welfare Capitalism on a Mississippi Plantation in the Great Depression." Journal of Southern History 50 (May 1984): 225–50. online at JSTOR
  • Owens, Harry P. Steamboats and the Cotton Economy: River Trade in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta (1990).
  • Polk, Noel. Natchez before 1830 (1989)
  • Willis, John C. Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta After the Civil War (2000)

Primary sources

  • Abbott, Dorothy. ed. Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and Youth. Vol. 2: Nonfiction, (1986).
  • Bond, Bradley G. ed. Mississippi: A Documentary History (2003)
  • Moody, Anne. Coming of Age in Mississippi. (1968) memoir of Black girlhood
  • Rosengarten, Theodore. All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw (1974) memoir of a Black Mississippian