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 1994-08 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential how-to guide for researching ancestral roots in the Magnolia State

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Mississippi written by Nancy Capace and published by Somerset Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Mississippi contains detailed information on States: Symbols and Designations, Geography, Archaeology, State History, Local History on individual cities, towns and counties, Chronology of Historic Events in the State, Profiles of Governors, Political Directory, State Constitution, Bibliography of books about the state and an Index.

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:

Download or read book Red Book written by Alice Eichholz and published by Ancestry Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... provides updated county and town listings within the same overall state-by-state organization ... information on records and holdings for every county in the United States, as well as excellent maps from renowned mapmaker William Dollarhide ... The availability of census records such as federal, state, and territorial census reports is covered in detail ... Vital records are also discussed, including when and where they were kept and how"--Publisher decription.

Download or read book The Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

Download or read book Prentiss County Mississippi written by Turner Publishing and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Prentiss County, Mississippi, including the people and families, buildings, businesses, churches, organizations, schools and and sports.

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Download or read book Baxter Short Miller Gill and Related Families written by Mary Cynthia Baxter Harrell and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James W. Baxter (1798-1872) was born in Adair Co., Kentucky. His father was probably James Baxter. He married Nancy Ann Short (1796-1875), the daughter of Elizabeth Short, in Green Co., KY in 1820. They were the parents of five children. They are both buried in Richmond Grove Cemetery in Logan Co., Illinois. Several generations of descendants are given.

Download or read book The Northeast Mississippi Historical Genealogical Society Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of Old Tishomingo County Mississippi Territory written by Fan Alexander Cochran and published by Southern Heritage Press (FL). This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the 4th printing of this edition of Fan Alexander Cochran's book.

Download or read book The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi written by Mississippi. Department of Archives and History and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Sowing the Wind written by Dorothy Overstreet Pratt and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1890, Mississippi called a convention to rewrite its constitution. That convention became the singular event that marked the state's transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth and set the path for the state for decades to come. The primary purpose of the convention was to disfranchise African American voters as well as some poor whites. The result was a document that transformed the state for the next century. In Sowing the Wind, Dorothy Overstreet Pratt traces the decision to call that convention, examines the delegates' decisions, and analyzes the impact of their new constitution. Pratt argues the constitution produced a new social structure, which pivoted the state's culture from a class-based system to one centered upon race. Though state leaders had not anticipated this change, they were savvy in their manipulation of the issues. The new constitution effectively filled the goal of disfranchisement. Moreover, unlike the constitutions of many other southern states, it held up against attack for over seventy years. It also hindered the state socially and economically well into the twentieth century.

Download or read book Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi written by Christopher J. Olsen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-19 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study of the politics of secession combines traditional political history with current work in anthropology and gender and ritual studies. Christopher J. Olsen has drawn on local election returns, rural newspapers, manuscripts, and numerous county records to sketch a new picture of the intricate and colorful world of local politics. In particular, he demonstrates how the move toward secession in Mississippi was deeply influenced by the demands of masculinity within the state's antiparty political culture. Face-to-face relationships and personal reputations, organized around neighborhood networks of friends and extended kin, were at the heart of antebellum Mississippi politics. The intimate, public nature of this tradition allowed voters to assess each candidate's individual status and fitness for public leadership. Key virtues were independence and physical courage, as well as reliability and loyalty to the community, and the political culture offered numerous chances to demonstrate all of these (sometimes contradictory) qualities. Like dueling and other male rituals, voting and running for office helped set the boundaries of class and power. They also helped mediate the conflicts between nineteenth-century American egalitarianism, democracy, and geographic mobility, and the South's exaggerated patriarchal hierarchy, sustained by honor and slavery. The political system, however, functioned effectively only as long as it remained a personal exercise between individuals, divorced from the anonymity of institutional parties. This antiparty tradition eliminated the distinction between men as individuals and as public representatives, which caused them to assess and interpret all political events and rhetoric in a personal manner. The election of 1860 and success of the Republicans' antisouthern, free soil program, therefore, presented an "insulting" challenge to personal, family, and community honor. As Olsen shows in detail, the sectional controversy engaged men where they measured themselves, in public, with and against their peers, and linked their understanding of masculinity with formal politics, through which the voters actually brought about secession. Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi provides a rich new perspective on the events leading up to the Civil War and will prove an invaluable tool for understanding the central crisis in American politics.

Download or read book History of Mississippi the Heart of the South written by Dunbar Rowland and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Ancestors of Elsie Rumley written by Pauline Hardin Madeira and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elsie Rumley was born 14 January 1901 in Wiley's Cove Township, Rumley, Searcy County, Arkansas. Her parents were Henry Newton Rumley (1859-1939) and Sarah Margaret Geary (1866-1937). She married Harvey Louis Hardin 25 April 1915. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived in Arkansas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, California and elsewhere.