Download or read book Tracing Your Mississippi Ancestors written by Anne S. Lipscomb and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This easy-to-understand guide through a maze of research possibilities is for any genealogist who has Mississippi ancestry. It identifies the many official state records, incorporated community records, related federal records, and unofficial documents useful in researching Mississippi genealogy. Here the contents of these resources are clearly described, and directions for using them are clearly stated. Tracing Your Mississippi Ancestors also introduces many other helpful genealogical resources, including detailed colonial, territorial, state, and local materials. Among official records are census schedules, birth, marriage, divorce, and death registers, tax records, military documents, and records of land transactions such as deeds, tract books, land office papers, plats, and claims. In addition to noting such frequently used sources as Confederate Army records, this guidebook leads the researcher toward lesser-known materials, such as passenger lists from ships, Spanish court records, midwives' reports, WPA county histories, cemetery records, and information about extinct towns. Since researching forebears who belong to minority groups can be a difficult challenge, this book offers several avenues to discovering them. Of special focus are sources for locating African American and Native American ancestors. These include slave schedules, Freedman's Bureau papers, Civil War rolls, plantation journals, slave narratives, Indian census records, and Indian enrollment cards. To these specialized resources the authors of Tracing Your Mississippi Ancestors append an annotated bibliography of published and unpublished genealogical materials relating to Mississippi. Including over 200 citations, this is by far the most comprehensive list ever given for researching Mississippi genealogy. In addition, all of Mississippi's local, county, and state repositories of genealogical materials are identified, but because most documents for tracing Mississippi ancestors are found at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, the authors have made the state archival collection in Jackson the focus of this book.
Download or read book The Past is Not Dead written by Douglas B. Chambers and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of [twenty-one representative] literary and historical essays that will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Southern Quarterly . . . (founded in 1962) dedicated to southern studies. . . . this essay collection features the best work published in the journal. Essays represent every decade of the journal's history. Topics range from historical essays . . . to literary essays . . . . Important regional subjects . . . are given special attention" --Publisher's note.
Download or read book The World of William Faulkner written by Ward L. Miner and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Faulkner s County written by Don Harrison Doyle and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of Lafayette County, Mississippi, uses William Faulkner's rich fictional portrait of a place and its people to illuminate the past. From the arrival of Europeans in Chickasaw Indian territory in 1540 to Faulkner's death in 1962, Doyle chronicles more than four centuries of local history. 27 illustrations. 3 maps.
Download or read book Talking About William Faulkner written by Sally Wolff and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1996-03-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1970s and 1980s, Sally Wolff and Floyd C. Watkins, both of Emory University, took students of southern literature to Lafayette County, Mississippi, to explore the region where William Faulkner lived. They visited Faulkner’s home, Rowan Oak, in Oxford, Mississippi; trekked around the countryside; and met people who were the prototypes for some of his characters. During these excursions, they discovered firsthand how profoundly Faulkner’s family, community, and region imprinted themselves on his imagination and then both shaped and enriched his work. Their primary guide was Jimmy Faulkner, who was once described by his famous uncle as “the only person who likes me for what I am.” Like his uncle, Jimmy is a born storyteller, and his recollections provide profound as well as intimate details about Faulkner as author, father, member of the unusual Faulkner clan, and resident of the model for what may be the most famous county in American literature. In these interviews, and in the forty-three splendid black-and-white photographs that accompany them, we move through Faulkner’s home territory and encounter the sources of his sense of place and its past: antebellum Rowan Oak, with its scuppernong vines and outside kitchen; old plantation homes and dogtrot houses; narrow one-lane bridges and creeks with Indian names; country churches and cemeteries. Jimmy’s comments often link specific sites with particular episodes or settings in Faulkner’s works, and his humorous stories sometimes mingle fact with fiction. Two colorful local personalities who knew Faulkner—Pearle Galloway, proprietor of a general store near Oxford for over thirty years, and Motee Daniel, owner of various enterprises, including a roadhouse, a general store, and a bootlegging operation—also tell tales about him. Galloway and Daniel provide, in turn, fascinating glimpses of the kind of people who intrigued Faulkner and about whom he wrote. While his work was most certainly influenced by his surroundings, Faulkner, through his stories and novels, likewise transformed the memories, perceptions, and interpretations of his family, his community, and his readers. Talking About William Faulkner deepens our knowledge of Faulkner’s everyday life and our understanding of the world in which he lived and of which he wrote.
Download or read book The Journal of Mississippi History written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Book reviews".
Download or read book The Journal of Negro Education written by Charles Henry Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the Journal is threefold: first, to stimulate the collection and facilitate the dissemination of facts about the education of Black people; second, to present discussions involving critical appraisals of the proposals and practices relating to the education of Black peoplle; third, to stimulate and sponsor investigations of issues incident to the education of Black people.
Download or read book Mississippi Theses 1928 1952 written by John Knox Bettersworth and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The University of Mississippi Its First Hundred Years written by Allen Cabaniss and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Critical Essays on William Faulkner the Sartoris Family written by Arthur F. Kinney and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1985 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of articles and essays on William Faulkner's Sartoris family.
Download or read book The Southern Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliographical Series written by Mississippi State College. Social Science Research Center and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Critical Essays on William Faulkner written by Arthur F. Kinney and published by Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall. This book was released on 1990 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays provides a window on Faulkner's work by concentrating on one aspect of it - his use of clans to chronicle the decay of the post-Civil-War South. It records the history of criticism on the McCaslins and their related family lines (Beauchamp, Edmonds and Priest) which figure in novels such as Go Down, Moses and Intruder in the Dust. The book considers the raw materials - newspaper extracts and court records - used by Faulkner to construct his accounts, and includes a genealogy of the families and photographs that show some of the original people and places on which Faulkner based his characters and situations.
Download or read book Yoknapatawpha written by Gabriele Gutting and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 1992 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his Yoknapatawpha fiction, William Faulkner takes his readers to a literary microcosm which is characterized by an inseparable interconnectedness of space, time, and man. As he probes into the layers of Southern space and history, Faulkner selects and arranges the geographical and historical idiosyncracies of his Southern environment, unifying them by his artistic imagination to create a web of spatio-temporal images. Tracing the writer's creative handling of his sources, this book examines Faulkner's unique combination of fact and fiction, of reality and imagination. It makes transparent the process by which Faulkner applies his individual experience of place and heritage to design a narrative world in which space and time are equal-ranking determinants of human reality.
Download or read book Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on written by Ben Merchant Vorpahl and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the University of Mississippi written by Allen Cabaniss and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Genealogical Helper written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
