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Presidents Herbert Clark Hoover and George Walker Bush were challenged many times during their political careers. On Floods and Photo Ops: How Herbert Hoover and George W. Bush Exploited Catastrophes focuses on the visual record of two such tests: the relief efforts led by Commerce Secretary Hoover during the 1927 Mississippi River flood and the Bush team's response to Hurricane Katrina.

It was none other than Langston Hughes who called Oliver Wendell Harrington America's greatest black cartoonist. Yet largely because he chose to live as an expatriate he has been almost entirely overlooked by contemporary historians and scholars of African American culture. This volume offers an omnibus of Harrington's best cartoons from the past four decades.

Presents an account of the distribution, morphology, biology and classification of those scorpions considered to be of medical importance. The book also contains information on the clinical aspects of scorpion envenomation, and on methods for scorpion control.

Presents the first comprehensive view of authors who have published books in the one hundred and fifty years since Mississippi achieved statehood. The writers included in this biographical dictionary range from William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty, and Richard Wright to persons who have published only one book and about whom it may be difficult to obtain information.

Throughout the war years of the 1940s there were enormous outpourings of correspondence from all parts of the United States to men and women in the service. Among these were local news columns written in the form of letters to soldiers. Dear Boys collects memorable columns written by Mrs. Keith Frazier Somerville (1888-1978) for the newspaper of Bolivar County, Mississippi.

Ozark Countryby W. K. McNeilA stimulating encounter with the vigorous mountain culture and enduring folklife of the OzarksThis study of folklife in the Ozarks surveys one of Americäs most fascinating regions and shows its distinctive cultural imprint. The living heritage of Ozark country is detailed here beside the history of its earliest settlements and its unique folkways.Although many who pioneered in the Ozarks migrated from southern Appalachia, Ozark is not ¿Appalachia West,¿ for the flavor of Ozark culture is rare and particular. This book is an expression of that lasting distinctiveness.The folklife of the home (its foodways, crafts, and folkways), of the workplace (its architecture and its crafts), of Ozark leisure (music, dance, folksongs, ballads, games, and narratives) are given special attention here so that the singular nature of life in Ozark country can be revealed as an ongoing tradition rather than a static preservation.In the Ozark region, perhaps as in no other place in America, the essential character of the people is stamped with this combination of what is past and what is present.W. K. McNeil (deceased) was a folklorist at the Ozark Folk Center. He wrote and edited many books about folklore in the southern United States.

Bridging literary scholarship, archaeology, history, and art history, Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination explores how material goods shaped antebellum notions of race, class, gender, and purity.

This teeming compendium of tales assembles and classifies the abundant lore and storytelling prevalent in the French culture of southern Louisiana. Side by side are dual-language retellings - the Cajun French and its English translation - along with insightful commentaries.

Elizabeth Stewart is a highly acclaimed singer, pianist and accordionist whose reputation has spread widely not only as an outstanding musician but as the principal inheritor and advocate of her family and their music. First discovered by folklorists in the 1950s, the Stewarts of Fetterangus, including Elizabeth's mother Jean, her uncle Ned, and her aunt Lucy, have had immense musical influence. Lucy in particular became a celebrated ballad singer and in 1961 Smithsonian Folkways released a collection of her classic ballad recordings that brought the family's music and name to an international audience.Up Yon Wide and Lonely Glen is a significant memoir of Scottish Traveller life, containing stories, music, and songs from this prominent Traveller family. The book is the result of a close partnership between Elizabeth Stewart and Scottish folk singer and writer Alison McMorland. It details the ancestral history of Elizabeth Stewart's family, the story of her mother, the story of her aunt, and her own life story, framing and contextualizing the music and song examples and showing how totally integrated these art forms are with daily life. It is a remarkable portrait of a Traveller family from the perspective of its matrilineal line. The narrative, spanning five generations and written in Scots, captures the rhythms and idioms of Elizabeth Stewart's speaking voice and is extraordinary from a musical, cultural, sociological, and historical point of view. The book features 145 songs, eight original piano compositions, folk-tale versions, rhymes and riddles, and eighty fascinating illustrations, from the family of Elizabeth, her mother Jean (1912-1962) and her aunt Lucy (1901-1982). In addition, there are notes on the songs and a series of appendices. Up Yon Wide and Lonely Glen will appeal to those interested in traditional music, folklore, and folk song--and in particular, Scottish tradition.

Enjoy these literary conversations with some of the foremost authors writing in America today. Though writing is what they do best, talking about literature is an act that the Mississippi writers included here do marvellously well. This is the second of two volumes of interviews with eleven of the state's prizewinning writers.

Enjoy these literary conversations with some of the foremost authors writing in America today. Though writing is what they do best, talking about literature is an act that the Mississippi writers included here do marvellously well. This is the first of two volumes of interviews with eleven of the state's prizewinning writers.

When Whitney Balliett's American Musicians appeared in the Fall of 1986, the acclaim it received was universal. That book gathered together all of Balliett's profiles of jazz instrumentalists. Here, in American Singers, Balliett has added thirteen new biographical profiles to provide the perfect complement to American Musicians.

The only book ever to present Mississippi's story in a chronological documentary fashion, it includes a wide variety of public records, newspaper articles, academic papers, correspondence, ordinances, constitutional amendments, journal entries, and other documents. Collected and placed together, they compose a narrative that reveals the state in all its great diversity of peoples and terrains.

South Florida summons tropical vacationland images--gleaming beaches, exotic foods, colourful costumes, and grand hotels. Yet beyond this facade teems a rich folklife that is the subject of this alluring book.

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991) loved to give interviews. He was famous for encouraging interruptions of the solitary task of writing. These twenty-four welcomed interruptions are representative of the many he allowed over a twenty-five-year period. Included here are his conversations with such interviewers as Irving Howe, Laurie Colwin, Richard Burgin, and Herbert R. Lottman. In these talks Singer discusses the nature of his writing, its ethnic roots, his demonology, the importance of free will, and the place of storytelling in human life. The interviews with Singer reveal both his impish sense of humor and a determination that sustained him through many years of limited acclaim and comparative neglect by critics. Yiddishists often faulted him for refusing to use his talent as a force for change in the world, Jewish readers often deplored his use of pre-Enlightenment folk material, and academics could not take too seriously a writer who insisted on telling stories that emphasized plot and character. Yet he was not deterred from his astonishing and beloved work, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize.

Ellen S. Woodward was touted as Roosevelt's second most powerful woman appointee. Among women only Eleanor Roosevelt and Frances Perkins could claim more elevated roles in FDR's administration. This long overdue biography traces Woodward's odyssey from the parlors of Mississippi to director of women's work relief under three New Deal agencies.

Offers a collection of representative authentic soul food dishes for those who want the real thing. Kathy Starr compiled these recipes as a tribute to her grandmother, whom she remembers amid big pots of greens and vegetables that were bubbling on the stove as she stirred up the cornbread.

Provides a systematic analysis of the litigation in Brown v. Mississippi, in which the Supreme Court made a pathbreaking decision in 1936 showing the unconstitutionality of coerced confessions. The case exonerated three black sharecroppers who had confessed under torture to the murder of a white planter.

Presents the public face of folk music in the United States through its commercial promotion and presentation through much of the twentieth century. Included are concert flyers; sheet music; book, songbook, magazine, and album covers; concert posters and flyers; and movie lobby cards and posters, all in their original colours.

Brings together eighteen interviews with a world-renowned fiction writer. Ranging from his 1994 literary debut, Fishing the Sloe-Black River, to a previously unpublished interview conducted in 2016, these interviews represent the development as well as the continuation of McCann's interests.

Attentive to the ways in which power structures, institutional routines, school spaces, and social relations operate in the contemporary school story, The School Story offers provocative insights into a genre that speaks profoundly to the increasingly precarious position of education in the twenty-first century.

Features twenty-one conversations with musicians who have had at least fifty years of professional experience. Appealing to casual fans and jazz aficionados alike, these interviews have been carefully, but minimally edited by Peter Zimmerman for sense and clarity, without changing any of the musicians' actual words.

Provides a map of current approaches to comics and their engagement with historical representation. The first section of the book explores the existence, shape, and influence of comics as a medium; the second section concerns the question of trauma; the final section delves into ways in which comics add to the mythology of the US.

Francio Guadeloupe has lived in both the Dutch Antilles and the Netherlands. An anthropologist, he is a keen observer by honed habit. Simultaneously memoir and astute exploration, this book charts Guadeloupe's coming of age and adulthood in a Dutch world and movingly makes a global contribution to the understanding of anti-Black racism.

The famously private Sam Shepard gave a significant number of interviews over the course of his public life, and the interviewers who respected his boundaries found him to be forthcoming on a wide range of topics. The selected interviews here begin in 1969 when Shepard was twenty-six and end in 2016, eighteen months before his death.

Parisian Pauline Guyot (1805-1886), who wrote under the nom de plume Camille Lebrun. Among her works is a hitherto-untranslated 1845 French novel, Amitie et devouement, ou Trois mois a la Louisiane. E. Joe Johnson and Robin Anita White have recovered this work, providing a translation, an accessible introduction, and period illustrations.

Reframes our understanding of the history of the girls' book and provides insightful readings of forgotten bestsellers. The book also outlines an alternate model for imagining adolescence and supporting adolescent girls. The awkward adolescent girl remains a valuable resource for understanding contemporary girls and stories about them.

Drama has received little attention in southern studies, and women playwrights in receive less recognition than their male counterparts. Casey Kayser addresses these gaps by examining the work of southern women playwrights, arguing that representations of the American South on stage are complicated by difficulties of identity, genre, and region.