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Secondary Sources on Mississippi

Frank O. Alonzo.  "The Mississippi Juvenile Justice System:  A Model for Change"  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Mississippi; 1975.

Blance Ames.  Adelbert Ames, 1835-1933, General, Senator, Governor, the Story of His Life and Times and His Integrity as a Soldier and Statesman in the Service of the United States of America throughout the Civil War and in Mississippi in the Years of Reconstruction.  New York:  Argosy-Antiquarian, 1964.  Call Number:  F341 A42 1964.

Sharon D. Wright Austin.  The Transformation of Plantation Politics:  Black Politics, Concentrated Poverty, and Social Capital in the Mississippi Delta.  Albany:  State University of New York Press, 2006.  Call Number:  F347 M6 A94 2006.

Charles Howard Baer.  "The New Black Politics in Mississippi:  A Quantitative Analysis."  Thesis; Northwestern University; 1970.  Call Number:  JK1929 M7 B34.

Lewis Baker.  The Percys of Mississippi:  Politics and Literature in the New South.  Baton Route:  Louisiana State University Press, 1983.  Call Number:  CT274 P48 B34 1983.

Larry Thomas Balsamo.  "Theodore G. Bilbo and Mississippi Politics, 1877-1932."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Missouri; 1967.  Call Number:  E748 B5 B3.

William L. Barney.  "Road to Revolution:  The Social Basis of Secession in Alabama and Mississippi."  Thesis; Columbia University; 1971.  Call Number:  F341 B38.

William L. Barney.  The Secessionist Impulse:  Alabama and Mississippi in 1860.  Princeton, NJ:  Princeton University Press, [1974].  Call Number:  E440.5 B28.

Bethany Lamar Baskin.  "The Rise of William Forrest Winter" (M.A. Thesis; Mississippi State University; 1992).  Call Number:  F341 W55 B37 1992a.

Jason Berry.  Amazing Grace:  With Charles Evers in Mississippi.  New York:  Saturday Review Press, 1973.  Call Number:  F345 B47 1973.

John K. Bettersworth.  Confederate Mississippi, the People and Policies of a Cotton State in Wartime.  Baton Rouge:  Louisiana State University Press, 1943.  Call Number:  F341 B57.

Claiborne, J.F.H.  Life and Correspondence of John A. Quitman:  Major-General, U.S.A., and Governor of the State of Mississippi.  New York:  Harper & Brothers, 1860.  Two volumes.  Call Number:  E403.1 Q8 C5.

Clinton Wheeler Boals.  "A Study of the Mississippi High School American Government Teachers."  D.A.; University of Mississippi; 1979.

Bradley G. Bond.  Political Culture in the Nineteenth-Century South:  Mississippi, 1830-1900.  Baton Rouge:  Louisiana State University Press, 1995.  Call Number:  F341 B76 1995.

Bradley G. Bond.  "A Southern Social Ethic:  Political Economy in the Nineteenth-Century South; Mississippi, 1840-1910."  Ph.D. dissertation; Louisiana State University; 1993.  Call Number:  F341 B765 1993a.

Thomas Neville Boschert.  "A Family Affair:  Mississippi Politics, 1882-1932."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Mississippi, 1995. 

Glenn Franklin Boyce Jr.  "The Perception of Role Delineation between Mississippi Public School Board Presidents and Superintendents."  Ed.D. thesis; University of Mississippi, 1996. 

Dana B. Brammer.  A Study of the Office of Sheriff in the United States, Southern Region, 1967.  University, MS:  Bureau of Governmental Research, 1968.  Call Number:  HV7979 B7.

William Brescia, ed.  Tribal Government:  A New Era.  Philadelphia, MS:  Choctaw Heritage Press,  Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, 1982.  Call Number:  E99 C8 T75 1982.

Robert Burr Cade.  "Mass Media Influence on the Candidate Choice, Time of Vote Decision, and Ticket-Splitting Voting Behavior of Jasper County, Mississippi, Voters in the 1975 General Election."  (Thesis; University of Southern Mississippi; 1977).  Call Number:  JK1926 C33.

Helen Caine and Anne D. Czarniecki.  An Illustrated Guide to the Mississippi Governor's Mansion.  Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 1984.  Call Number:  NK838 J2 C34 1984.

Will D. Campbell.  Robert G. Clark's Journey to the House:  A Black Politician's Story.  Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 2003.  Call Number:  F345.3 C57 C36 2003.

Ted Carageorge, ed.  Gulf Coast Politics in the Twentieth Century.  Pensacola, FL:  Historic Pensacola Preservation Board, 1973.  Call Number:  F296 G97 1972.

Russell James Chance.  "Alexander Melvourne Jackson:  Mississippi Lawyer, Editor, Soldier, and Politician, 1823-1857."  Thesis; Mississippi State University; 1970.  Call Number:  E415.9 J3 C3.

Richard Dalls Chesteen.  "Change and Reaction in a Mississippi Delta Civil Community."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Mississippi; 1975.  Three volumes.

Henry Roger Cohen.  "John Elliot Rankin -- Member of Congress from Mississippi 1921-52."  M.A. thesis; Howard University; 1971.  Call Number:  E748 R36 C64 1971.

William Leon Coker.  "Cotton and Faith:  A Social and Political View of Mississippi Wartime Finance, 1861-1865."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Oklahoma, 1973.  Call Number:  F341 C64.

J.P. Coleman.  The Origin of the Constitution of 1890.  1957.  Reprint from Journal of Mississippi History.  Call Number:  KFM7001 1890 A29 C6.

Mary DeLorse Coleman.  Legislators, Law, and Public Policy:  Political Changes in Mississippi and the South.  Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press, 1993.  Call Number:  JK4668 C65 1993.

Penny Colman.  Fannie Lou Hamer and the Fight for the Vote.  Brookfield, CT:  Millbrook Press, 1993.  Call Number:  E185.97 H35 C35 1993.

Donald Colmer.  The Poor Damned People of Mississippi:  A Study of the Arrogance of Power.  Jackson, MS:  Northtowne Press, [1993].  Political corruption and Mississippi Power and Light Company.  Call Number:  HD9685 U7 M5463 1993.

Margaret Ann Homer Cook.  "A Survey of Selected Public Policy-Makers in the Deep South States of Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee to Identify Their Attitudes and Perceptions of the Desegregation Process of Higher Education."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Mississippi, 1993.

Del Cox.  Vicksburg, Mississippi Corruption.  Vicksburg, MS:  Liame Press, 1991.  Political corruption.  Call Number:  JF1081 C69 1991.

Stephen Edward Cresswell.  Multiparty Politics in Mississippi, 1877-1902.  Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 1995.  Call Number:  JK2295 M72 C74 1995.

Stephen Cresswell.  Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race:  Mississippi after Reconstruction, 1877-1917.  Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 2006.  Call Number:  F341 C74 2006.

James R. Crockett.  Hands in the Till:  Embezzlement of Public Monies in Mississippi.  Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 2007.  Call Number:  HV6684 M7 C76 2007.

Charles Robert Cronin.  "Relationships between Roll Call Votes and Demographic and Political Variables in Mississippi during the 1968 Legislative Session."  Thesis; University of Southern Mississippi; 1972.  Call Number:  LB2806 C679.

Crawford Hines Cronin.  "Relationships between Roll Call Votes and Area Socioeconomics and Educational Measures in Mississippi."  Thesis; University of Southern Mississippi; 1972.  Call Number:  LB2806 C68.

Richard Nelson Current.  Three Carpetbag Governors.  Baton Rouge:  Louisiana State University, [1967].  Includes Mississippi' Adelbert Ames.  Call Number:  F316 R27 C8.

Elisabeth Brown Cutting.  Jefferson Davis, Political Soldier.  New York:  Dodd, Mead and Company, 1930.  Call Number:  E467.1 D26 C95.

Jefferson Davis.  The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government.  New York:  D. Appleton and Co., 1881.  Two volumes.  Call Number:  E487 D26.

Jefferson Davis.  A Short History of the Confederate States of America.  New York:  Belford Co., 1890.  Call Number:  E487 D27.

James Dickerson.  Dixie's Dirty Secret:  The True Story of How the Government, the Media, and the Mob Conspired to Combat Integrationand the Vietnam Antiwar Movement.  Armonk, NY:  M.E. Sharpe, 1998.  Call Number:  E185.93 M6 D54 1998.

Thurston Ermon Doler.  "Theodore G. Bilbo's Rhetoric of Racial Relations."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Oregon; 1968.  Call Number:  E748 B5 D6.

H.J. Eckenrode.  Jefferson Davis, President of the South.  New York:  Macmillan Company, 1923.  Call Number:  E487 E2.

Mary Joan Elliott.  "Winthrop Sargent and the Administration of the Mississippi Territory."  Thesis; University of Southern California; 1970.  Call Number:  F341 S37 E4.

Paul D. Escott.  "Jefferson Davis and the Failure of Confederate Nationalism."  Ph.D. dissertation; Duke University; 1974.  Call Number:  E467.1 D26 E8.

Richard C. Etheridge.  "Mississippi's Role in the Dixiecratic Movement."  Ph.D. dissertation; Mississippi State University; 1971.  Call Number:  JK2391 S83 E8.

Frank Edgar Everett.  Federal Judges in Mississippi (1818-1968).  [1968].  Call Number:  F340 E9.

John A. Fairlie.  Biography of James Wilford Garner.  [Ubana:  University of Illinois Press, 1943].  Mississippi political scientist.  Call Number:  LD2376 G3 F3.

Peter J. Ferrara.  The Choctaw Revolution:  Lessons for Federal Indian Policy.  Washington, DC:  Americans for Tax Reform Foundation, 1998.  Call Number:  E99 C8 F47 1998.

Michael William Fitzgerald. "The Union League Movement in Alabama and Mississippi:  Politics and Agricultural Change in the Deep South During Reconstruction."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of California, Los Angeles; 1986.  Call Number:  F341 F58 1985a.

Annie Belle Fort.  "The Federal Housing Administration and Its Activities in the State of Mississippi."  Thesis: University of Alabama; 1936.  Call Number:  HD303 M7 F67 1939.

Nola Kay Pearson Gibson.  "A Biography of Governor William F. Winter with Special Emphasis on His Contributions to Improving Education in Mississippi."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Mississippi, 1993. 

Vincent Arthur Giroux.  "Theodore G. Bilbo:  Progressive to Public Racist."  Ph.D. dissertation; Indiana University; 1984.  Call Number:  E748 B5 G5 1985.

A. Wigfall Green.  The Man Bilbo.  Westport, CN:  Greenwood Press, 1976.  Reprint of 1963 edition.  Call Number:  E748 B5 G7 1976.

Charles Granville Hamilton.  Mississippi, Mirror of the 1920s.  Aberdeen, MS:  Gregg-Hamilton, 1979.  Call Number:  F341 H193. 

Charles Granville Hamilton. "Mississippi Politics in the Progressive Era, 1904-1920."  Thesis; Vanderbilt University; 1958.  Call Number:  F341 H25.

Charles Granville Hamilton.  Progressive Mississippi.  Aberdeen, MS:  1978.  Call Number:  F341 H252.

Johnny L. Harris.  "A Historical Analysis of Educational, Economic and Political Change in Fayette, Mississippi from 1954 to 1971."  Ph.D. dissertation; Florida State University; 1972.  Call Number:  E185.93 M6 H37.

William C. Harris.  The Day of the Carpetbagger:  Republic Reconstruction in Mississippi.  Baton Rouge:  Louisiana State University Press, 1978.  Call Number:  F341 H28.

William C. Harris.  "Presidential Reconstruction in Mississippi:  Political and Economic Aspects."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Alabama; 1965.  Call Number:  F341 H29.

James Haskins.  A Piece of the Power:  Four Black Mayors.  New York:  Dial Press, [1972].  Includes Charles Evers of Fayette, Mississippi.  Call Number:  E185.615 H33.

Joseph T. Hatfield.  "The Public Career of William C.C. Claiborne."  Ph.D. dissertation; Emory University; 1962.  Call Number:  F374 C58 H3 1962.

Joseph T. Hatfield.  William Claiborne:  Jeffersonian Centurion in the American Southwest.  Lafayette:  University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1976.  Call Number:  E353.1 C6 H37 1976.

Robert V. Haynes.  "A Political History of the Mississippi Territory."  Thesis; Rice Institute; 1958.  Call Number:  F341 H3 1958.

Cleo Carson Hearon.  Mississippi and the Compromise of 1850.  New York:  AMS Press, [1972].  Reprint of 1913 edition.  Call Number:  F341 H4 1913a.

Burton Jesse Hendrick.  Statesmen of the Lost Cause; Jefferson Davis and His Cabinet.  Boston:  Little, Brown and Company, 1939.  Call Number:  E487 H47.

Eugene Welch Hickok.  "Higher Education, the State, and the Politics of Administration in Mississippi."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Virginia; 1983.  Call Number:  LB2341 H524 1984.

Robert Baker Highsaw and Charles N. Fortenberry.  The Government and Administration of Mississippi.  New York:  Crowell, [1954].  Call Number:  JK4625 1954 H5.

Thomas B. Hofeller.  "Mississippi Redistricting 1977-80" (Ph.D. Dissertation; Clarmont Graduate School; 1980).  Call Number:  KFM7020.85 A6 H63.

Jack D.L. Holmes.  "Gallant Emissary; the Political Career of Manuel Gayoso de Lemos in the Mississippi Valley, 1789-1799."  Ph.D dissertation; University of Texas; 1959.  Call Number:  F352 G3 H6.

Jack D.L. Holmes.  Gayoso; the Life of a Spanish Governor in the Mississippi Valley, 1789-1799.  [Baton Rouge]:  Louisiana State University Press, [1965].  Call Number:  F373 G3 H6.

William F. Holmes.  "The White Chief:  James K. Vardaman in Mississippi Politics, 1890-1908."  Ph.D. dissertation; Rice University; 1964. Call Number:  E748 V24 H6.

Tim William Hudson.  "The Politics of Industrial Development in Mississippi"  Ph.D. dissertation; Clark University; 1980.  Call Number:  HC107 M7 H83.

John Charles Hughes.  "Political Culture, Political Socialization, and Race:  Consensus/Dissensus on Political Orientation among Black and White College Freshmen in Mississippi."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Mississippi; 1979.

Walter McClusky Hurns.  "Post-Reconstruction Municipal Politics in Jackson, Mississippi."  Ph.D. dissertation; Kansas State University, 1989.  Call Number:  F349 J13 H87 1989a.

Broadus B. Jackson.  Civil War and Reconstruction in Mississippi:  Mirror of Democracy in America.  Jackson, MS:  Town Square Books, 1998.  Call Number:  F341 J33 1998.

Judson L. Jeffries.  Black Power in the Belly of the Beast.  Urbana:  University of Illinois, 2006.  Includes chapter on "The Republic of New Africa in Mississippi" by Donald Cunnigen.  Call Number:  E185.615 B54665 2006.

Donald Brooks Kelley.  "Mississippi Public Opinion in the Presidential Elections of 1928 and 1960:  A Study in the Continuity of Ideas."  Ph.D. dissertation; Tulane University.  Call Number:  JK524 K36.

Albert Dennis Kirwan.  Revolt of the Rednecks; Mississippi Politics:  1876-1925.  Lexington:  University of Kentucky Press, 1951.  Call Number:  F341 K5.

Ethel Knight.  The Echo of the Black Horn:  An Authentic Tale of "the Governor" of "The Free State of Jones."  [Soho, MS:  1951].  Call Number:  F341 K64.

Judith Marie Kuypers.  "A Study of Faculty Use of Government  Publications at the University of Mississippi."  M.Lib.Sc. essay; University of Mississippi; 1973. 

Thomas E. Kynerd.  Administrative Reorganization of Mississippi Government: A Study in Politics.  Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 1977.  Call Number:  JK4636 K96.

Thomas E. Kynerd.  "Executive Reorganization of Mississippi Government:  A Study of the Failures Since 1930 and of the Possibilities for Success with the Proposal of 1970."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Southern Mississippi; 1973.  Call Number:  JK4641 K95.

Alex B. Lacy.  Power in American State Legislatures:  Case Studies of the Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Oklahoma Legislatures.  New Orleans:  Tulane University, 1967.  Call Number:  JA37 T8 vol.11.

Heber Ladner.  "James Kimble Vardaman in Mississippi Politics."  M.A. thesis; Duke University; 1938.  Call Number:  E748 V24 L3.

Guy Paul Land.  "Presidential Republicanism and the Growth of the Mississippi Republican Party, 1952-1960."  M.A. thesis; University of Georgia; 1974.  Call Number:  JK2358 M7 1974 OVRS.

Allan Louis Larson.  "Southern Demagoges:  A Study in Charismatic Leadership."  Thesis; Northwestern University; 1964.  Includes case study of Theodore G. Bilbo.  Call Number:  JF2049 L3.

Chana Kai Lee.  For Freedom's Sake:  The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer.  Urbana:  University of Illinois Press, 1999.  Call Number:  E185.97 H35 L44 1999.

Howard Little.  Mississippi Scrapbook:  200 Years of Governors & Others.  [1996].  Biographical accounts.  Call Number:  F340 L58 1996.

John H. Long, ed.  Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.  Mississippi.  New York:  Simon & Schuster, 1993.  Call Number:  G1201 F7 A8 1993 Miss.

Melvin Philip Lucas.  "The Development of the Second Party System in Mississippi, 1817- "  Ph.D. dissertation; Cornell University; 1983.  Call Number:  F341 L95 1984.

C. Peter Magrath.  Yazoo:  Law and Politics in the New Republic:  The Case of Fletcher v. Peck.  Providence:  Brown University Press, 1966.  Call Number:  F341 M34.

Frank Buckner Mallonee Jr.  "The Political Thought of Jefferson Davis."  Thesis; Emory University; 1966.  Call Number:  E467.1 D26 M28.

Robert E. May.  John A. Quitman:  Old South Crusader.  Baton Rouge:  Louisiana State University Press, 1985.  Call Number:  F341 Q84 M39 1985.

Samuel Proctor McCutchen.  The Political Career of Albert Gallatin Brown.  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Chicago; 1930.  Call Number:  F341 B88 M3.

Jennifer McDowell.  Black Politics:  A Study and Annotated Bibliography of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.  San Jose, CA:  Bibliographic Information Center for the Study of Political Science, 1971.  Call Number:  Z7165 U5 M3.

Gary Allen McGaha.  "A Case Study of State Government Administrators in Mississippi."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Mississippi; 1976.

James Willette McKee.  "William Barksdale:  The Intrepid Mississippian."  Ph.D. dissertation; Mississippi State University; 1966.  U.S. House of Representatives from 1853 to 1861.  Call Number:  E467.1 B246 M3.

Leslie Burl McLemore.  "The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party:  A Case Study of Grass-Roots Politics."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Massachusetts; 1971.  Call Number:  JK2391 M5 M3.

Hallie Mae McPherson.  "William McKendree Gwin, Expansionist."  Thesis; University of California; 1931.  Call Number:  E340 G9 M3.

Allan A. Michie.  Dixie Demagogues.  New York:  Vanguard Press, [1939].  Chapters on Pat Harrison and Theodore G. Bilbo.  Call Number:  E743 M53.

Edwin Arthur Miles.  Jacksonian Democracy in Mississippi.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1960.  Call Number:  F251 J28 v.42.

Clark Leonard Miller.  "'Let Us Die to Make Men Free':  Political Terrorism in Post-Reconstruction Mississippi, 1877-1896."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Minnesota; 1983.  Call Number:  F341 M473 1984.

Dennis J. Mitchell.  Mississippi Liberal:  A Biography of Frank E. Smith.  Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 2001.  Member of Congress.  Call Number:  E748 S656 M57 2001.

Hugh George Moore.  "The Environment for Metropolitan Governmental Reorganization:  The Jackson Experience."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Mississippi; 1972. 

Chester M. Morgan.  "Demagogue or Democrat:  Theodore G. Bilbo and the New Deal."  Ph.D. dissertation; Memphis State University; 1982.  Call Number:  E748 B5 M67 1984.

Chester M. Morgan.  Redneck Liberal:  Theodore G. Bilbo and the New Deal.  Baton Rouge:  Louisiana State University Press, 1985.  Call Number:  E748 B5 M67 1985.

Minion K.C. Morrison.  Black Political Mobilization:  Leadership, Power, and Mass Behavior.  Albany:  State University of New York Press, 1987.  Covers Mississippi politics.  Call Number:  E185.93 M6 M67 1987.

Jere Nash and Andy Taggart.  Mississippi Fried Politics:  Tall Tales from the Back Rooms.  Jackson, MS:  Red/Blue Publications, 2008.  Call Number:  F341.6 N37 2008.

Jere Nash and Andy Taggart.  Mississippi Politics:  The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006.  Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 2006.  Call Number:  F345 N37 2006.

Jere Nash and Andy Taggart.  Mississippi Politics:  The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006.  Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 2006.  Call Number:  F345 N37 2006.

Melany Neilson.  Even Mississippi.  Tuscaloosa:  University of Alabama Press, 1989.  African Americans in politics and government.  Call Number:  E185.93 M6 N35 1989.

Norma Neal.  "A Study of Graduate Student User of the Government Documents Collection at the University of Mississippi."  M.Lib.Sc. essay; University of Mississippi; 1974.

Virginia Gillespie O'Connell.  "Daily Newspaper Coverage of the 1979 General Election Campaign in Mississippi" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1982).

David B. Ogle.  Strengthening the Mississippi Legislature.  New Brunswick, NJ:  Eagleton Institute of Politics by Rutgers University Press, [1971].  Call Number:  JK4671 O34.

Shirley Ferguson Olson.  "A Model for Financing of Current and Future Pension Systems for Municipal Governments with Special Application to Jackson, Mississippi."  D.B.A. thesis; Mississippi State University; 1978.  Call Number:  JS953 O48.

George Coleman Osborne.  James Kimble Vardaman, Southern Commoner.  Jackson, MS:  Hederman Bros., 1981.  Call Number:  F341 V37 O8.

Frank R. Parker.  Black Votes Count:  Political Empowerment in Mississippi after 1965.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1990.  Call Number:  E185.93 M6 P37 1990.

Joseph B. Parker, ed.  Politics in Mississippi.  Salem, WI:  Sheffield Publishing Company, 1993.  Call Number:  JK4616 P64 1993.

Rembert W. Patrick.  Jefferson Davis and His Cabinet.  [Baton Rouge]:  Louisiana State University Press, [1961].  Call Number:  E487 P3.

Mary Lou Peyton.  "The Mississippi Whigs."  M.A. thesis; University of Alabama; 1931.  Call Number:  JK2333 M7 P4.

W.F. Powell.  Jackson's Early History and 28 Years of Municipal Progress.  Jackson, MS:  Tucker Printing House, [1949].  Call Number:  F349.3 J3 P6.

Dale R. Prentiss.  "Economic Progress and Social Dissent in Michigan and Mississippi, 1837-1860."  (Ph.D. Dissertation; Stanford University, 1990).  Politics and government.  Call Number:  F341 P93 1990a.

P.L. Rainwater.  Mississippi:  Storm Center of Secession, 1856-1861.  Baton Rouge:  O. Claitor, 1938.  Call Number:  F341 R26.

James Byrne Ranck.  ...Albert Gallatin Brown, Radical Southern Nationalist.  New York:  Appleton-Century Company, [1937].  Call Number:  F341 B88.

Donald M. Rawson.  "Party Politics in Mississippi, 1850-1860."  Ph.D. dissertation; Vanderbilt University; 1964.  Call Number:  F341 R39.

A. Louise Mozee Raymond.  "Publications of the Mississippi Legislature, 1789-1952."  M.A. thesis; Atlanta University, 1955.  Call Number:  Z1223.5 M7 R3 1955.

Marvin A. Riggs.  "Some Aspects of the Administration of Governor John Marshall Stone of Mississippi."  M.A. thesis; University of Alabama; 1947.  Call Number:  JK4651 R5 OVRS.

James Lawton Robertson.  Judge William C. Keady and the Bill of Rights.  Jackson, MS:  Mississippi Humanities Council, [1991].  Call Number:  KF373 K42 R63 1991.

Douglas Dana Rose.  "State Election Systems:  Candidacy, Candidate Strength, and Candidate Support in Wisconsin, Oregon, Vermont, and Mississippi."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Minnesota; 1970.  Call Number:  JK4692 R6.

Dunbar Rowland.  Political and Parliamentary Orators and Oratory of Mississippi.  [Harrisburg, PA:  Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1901].  Call Number:  F340 R88.

David Rubel.  Fannie Lou Hamer:  From Sharecropping to Politics.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ:  Silver Burdette Press, 1990.  Call Number:  E185.97 H35 R83 1990.

Lester Milton Salamon.  "Protest, Politics, and Modernization in the American South:  Mississippi as a 'Developing Society.'"  Thesis; Harvard University; 1971.  Call Number:  HC107 M7 S3 OVRS.

William Charles Sallis.  "The Colorline in Mississippi Politics, 1865-1915."  Thesis; University of Kentucky; 1967.  Call Number:  F341 S27.

David G. Sansing.  "The Role of the Scalawag in Mississippi Reconstruction."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Southern Mississippi; 1969.  Call Number:  F341 S3.

David G. Sansing and Caroll Waller.  A History of the Mississippi Governor's Mansion.  Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 1977.  Call Number:  F349 J13 S26.

Buford Satcher.  "Blacks in Mississippi Politics, 1865-1900."  Thesis; Oklahoma State University; 1976.  Call Number:  F341 S38.

Charles Herbert Schoenleber.  "The Rise of the New West:  Frontier Political Pressure, State-Federal Conflict, and the Removal of the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, and Cherokees, 1815-1837."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Wisconsin, Madison; 1986.  Call Number:  E93 S33 1986a.

James Patrick Shenton.  Robert John Walker, a Politician from Jackson to Lincoln.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 1961.  Call Number:  E415.9 W2 S5.

Pressly Spinks Sikes.  "Judicial Administration in Mississippi."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Illinois; 1934.  Call Number:  KFM7108 S54 1934.

William M. Simpson.  "The 'Loyalist Democrats' of Mississippi:  Challenge to a White Majority, 1965-1972."  Ph.D. dissertation; Mississippi State University; 1974.  Call Number:  JK391 L8 S55.

John Ray Skates Jr.  "A Southern Editor Views the National Scene:  Frederick Sullens and the Jackson Mississippi Daily News."  Thesis; Mississippi State University; 1965.  Call Number:  PN4828 M7 S4.

Larry Charles Skelton.  "Establishing City-Manager Government in Mississippi:  A Study of Atypical Community Decision-Making."  Thesis; University of Southern Mississippi; 1974.  Call Number:  JS344 C5 S4.

Stephen J. Skubik.  Handbook of Humor by Famous Politicians.  Washington, DC:  Life Underwriters Political Action Committee, 1968.  Includes entries for Thomas G. Abernethy and G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery.  Call Number:  PN6231 P6 S5 1968.

Dan W. Smith.  "James O. Eastland, Early Life and Career, 1904-1942."  M.A. Thesis; Mississippi College; 1978.  Call Number:  E840.8 E25 S65 1978 OVRS.

The Sovereignty Files:  The Real Story.  Jackson, MS:  Town Square Books, 1999.  Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission.  Call Number:  E185.93 M6 S68 1999.

Philip Sterling.  Four Took Freedom:  The Lives of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Robert Smalls, and Blanche K. Bruce.  Garden City, NY:  Doublday, 1967.  Call Number:  E185.96 S78 1967.

William H. Stewart.  The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway; A Case Study in the Politics of Water Transportation.  University, AL:  University of Alabama, 1971.  Call Number:  HE393 S75.

Jeffrey K. Stine.  Mixing the Waters:  Environment, Politics, and the Building of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway.  Akron, OH:  University of Akron Press, 1993.  Call Number:  TC625 T43 S75 1993.

Steven H. Stubbs.  Mississippi's Giant Houseparty:  The History of the Neshoba County Fair, 115 Years (And Counting) of Politiking, Pacing, Partaking and Partying.  Philadelphia, MS:  2005.  Call Number:  F347 N4 S78 2005.

Cecil Lamar Sumners.  The Governors of Mississippi.  Gretna, LA:  Pelican Pub. Co., 1980.  Call Number:  F340 S9.

Martha Swain.  "Pat Harrison and the New Deal."  Ph.D. dissertation; Vanderbilt University; 1975.  Call Number:  E748 H385 S9.

Martha Swain.  Pat Harrison:  The New Deal Years.  Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 1978.  Call Number:  E748 H385 S9 1978.

Roger D. Tate Jr.  "Easing the Burden:  The Era of Depression and New Deal in Mississippi."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Tennessee, Knoxville; 1978.  Call Number:  F341 T38.

William Banks Taylor.  Brokered Justice:  Race, Politics, and Mississippi Prisons, 1798-1992.  Columbus:  Ohio State University Press, 1993.  Call Number:  HV9475 M7 T39 1993.

Marilyn M. Thomas-Houston.  "'Stony the Road':  A Look at Political Participation in an African American Community."  Ph.D. Dissertation; New York University; 1997.  Lafayette County, Mississippi.  Call Number:  E185.93 M6 T36 1999.

Julius Eric Thompson.  Black Life in Mississippi:  Essays on Political, Social and Cultural Studies in a Deep South State.  Lanham, MD:  University Press of America, 2001.  Call Number:  E185.93 M6 T48 2001.

William P. Trent.  Southern Statesmen of the Old Regime; Washington, Jefferson, Randolph, Calhoun, Stephens, Toombs, and Jefferson Davis.  New York:  T.Y. Crowell & Company, [1897].  Call Number:  F208 T785.

Frank Everson Vandiver.  The Making of a President:  Jefferson Davis, 1861:  A Lecture Delivered at Richmond, Virginia on the 100th Anniversary of the Inauguration of Jefferson Davis as President of the Permanent Government of the Confederate States of America.  Biloxi, MS:  Beauvoir Press, 1989.  Call Number:  E467.1 D26 V23 1989.

Kenneth W. Vickers.  "John Rankin:  Democrat and Demagogue." M.A. Thesis; Mississippi State University, 1993.  Rankin was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.  Call Number:  E748 R22 V52 1993a.

Walter Thomas Viner.  "A Content Analysis of Political Advertisements Appearing in Daily Mississippi Newspapers during the 1980 Campaign Season."  (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1982). 

Kenneth Paul Vinsel.  "Political Parties in Mississippi, 1817-1843."  M.A. thesis; University of Mississippi; 1927. 

Daniel C. Vogt.  "Problems of Government Regulation:  The Mississippi Railroad Commission, 1884-1956."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Southern Mississippi; 1980.  Call Number:  HE2771 M7 V6.

Arthur Preston Whitaker.  The Mississippi Question, 1795-1803:  A Study in Trade, Politics, and Diplomacy.  New York:  C. Appleton-Century Company, [1934].  Call Number: F352 W56.

Hugh Stephen Whitaker.  A New Day:  The Effects of Negro Enfranchisement in Selected Mississippi Counties.  [Tallahassee, FL]:  Florida State University, 1965.  Call Number:  JK1929 M7 W37.

Clyde Thomas White.  "An Economic Study of the Industrial Development Policies of the State Government of Mississippi, 1960-1970."  D.B.A. thesis; Mississippi State University; 1973.  Call Number:  HC107 M7 W34.

Jesse Lamar White.  "Mississippi Electoral Politics, 1903-1976:  The Emerging Modernization Consensus."  Ph.D. dissertation; Massachusetts of Technology; 1979. Two volumes.  Call Number:  JK4690 W35.

Marth H. Wilkins and C. William Durrett.  Personalities.  Jackson:  Mississippi Committee for the Humanities, 1986.  Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames.  Call Number:  F341 W49 1986.

James E. Winston.  Mississippi and the Independence of Texas.  Richmond, VA:  Whittet & Shepperson, 1917.  Call Number:  F341 W5 M5.

James E. Winston.  The Annexation of Texas and the Mississippi Democrats.  Austin, TX:  1921.  Reprint.  Call Number:  QB235 S3 1895.

Elise Winter.  Dinner at the Mansion.  Oxford, MS:  Yoknapatawpha Press, 1982.  Mississippi Governor's Mansion.  Call Number:  F345 W55.

Frederick M. Wirt.  Politics of Southern Equality; Law and Social Change in a Mississippi County.  Chicago:  Aldine Pub. Co., [1971].  Panola County.  Call Number:  JC599 U52 M638.

David Nathaniel Young.  "The Mississippi Whigs, 18354-1860."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Alabama, 1968.  Call Number:  JK2333 M7 Y6 1834-60.

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