01782cam a2200337 i 4500 386599088 TxAuBib 20140610120000.0 131112s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013044104 9781617039768 1617039764 (OCoLC)861554470 TxAuBib rda Mitchell, Dennis J. A new history of Mississippi / Dennis J. Mitchell. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014. xi, 593 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Geographical introduction: the place -- Rise and fall of Indian culture -- Frontier and borderland -- Mississippi territory -- Frontier democracy to slave society -- Cotton kingdom -- Civil War: disaster and freedom -- Reconstruction: war by other means -- Redemption and black subjection -- Attempted revolt of the rednecks -- Segregation: red, yellow, black, and white -- War, depression, and environmental restoration -- World War II, economic improvement, and social confusion -- A closed society's response to challenge -- The civil rights movement and white defiance -- Mississippi and the modern world. 20181222. MSU--signed by author. MSU--Ulysses S. Grant Association. MSU--Gift od John F. and Jeanne A. Marszalek. MUW--Gift of Dr. Erin Kempker. Mississippi History. Presented to the Starkville Public Library by Starkville Woman's Club in honor of Steve Langston, speaker.