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Antebellum (Archives): Secondary Sources

Secondary Source Publications Related to Mississippi A-G

This list of Archives & Special Collections holdings includes Mississippi histories, biographies, and genealogical histories spanning the period 1817 to 1860.  It also contains University of Mississippi master's theses and dissertations on antebellum Mississippi that may be stored elsewhere in the library.

 

100 Years of Progress:  West Point, Mississippi Centennial Edition, 1858-1958, Daily Times Leader, July 11, 1958.  West Point, MS:  Daily Times Leader, 1958.  Call Number:  F349 W4 O5.

Nathaniel Sheafe Adams.  History of Yazoo City.  Two parts; Yazoo City, Mississippi.  Call Number:  F349 Y37 A33.

Donna Akers.  Living in the Land of Death:  The Choctaw Nation, 1830-1860.  East Lansing, MI:  Michigan State University Press, 2004.  Call Number:  E99 C9 A34 2004.

Eugene Talbert Aldridge.  Some Southern Talberts.  Provo, UT:  J.G. Stevenson, 1975.  Yalobusha County, Mississippi.  Call Number:  CS71 T14 1975.

A.S. Alexander.  "The Inquiring Mind and the Seeing Eye."  Reprint (192-).  On Mississippi geologist Eudene W. Hilgard.  Call Number:  S417 H6 A4.

Dorothy Moore Alford.  Reflections and Recognitions, Crystal Springs, Mississippi, 1820-1972.  [Crystal Springs, MS:  197-].  Call Number:  F349 C88 A4.

Frank H. Alfriend.  The Life of Jefferson Davis.  Cincinnati:  Caxton Publishing House, 1868.  Call Number:  E467.1 D26 A39.

Joe K. Alley.  Churches of Christ in Mississippi, 1836-1954.  Bonneville, MS:  1953.  Call Number:  BX7094 C95 A7.

Alex A. Alston.  An Alston Saga.  Jackson, MS:  Purple Crane Creek Press, 2002.  Mississippi Delta family.  Call Number:  CS71 A42 2002.

Alex A. Alston.  Christeana's Legacy.  Jackson, MS:  Purple Crane Creek Press, 2006.  Matriarch of family that arrived in south Mississippi in 1800.  Call Number:  CT275 J256 A47.

Johnnie Andrews and William David Higgins.  A Digest of the Life and Confessions of James Copeland.  [Prichard, AL]:  Bienville Historical Society, Prichard Museum, 1971.  Call Number:  F296 C67 A5 1971.

Harry C. Ash.  But as Yesterday When It Is Past:  A History of the Centreville Methodist Church, 1811-1961.  Centreville, MS:  1961.  Call Number:  BX8248 M7 A8.

Pearle Provine Bailey.  The History of the Coffeeville Methodist Church, 1824-1970...  [1970].  Call Number:  BX8481 C64 B3.

T.J. Bailey.  Prohibition in Mississippi; or, Anti-Liquor Legislation from Territorial Days, with Its Results in the Counties.  Jackson, MS:  Hederman Bros., 1917.  Call Number:  HV5090 M7 B3.

David Edwin Ballew.  "The Popular Prejudices of Our People:  Kinship, Community, and Male Honor in the Alabama-Mississippi Hill Country, 1820-1890."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Mississippi; 2000.  Two volumes.

A.C. Bancroft.  The Life and Death of Jefferson Davis, Ex-President of the Southern Confederacy.  Together with Comments of the Press, Funeral Sermons, Etc., Etc.  New York:  J.S. Ogilvie, [1889].  Call Number:  E467.1 D26 B2.

Maxine W. Barker.  The Third Arrow:  A Story of Moshulatubbee, Choctaw Chief.  Carrollton, MS:  Pioneer Pub. Co., 1997.  Call Number:  E99 C8 M693 1997.

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.

Florence Whitfield Barton.  The Davidsons:  Ulster to Mississippi, 200 Years.  Ennis, TX:  Custom Design Graphics and Printing, 1981.  Lafayette and Yalobusha counties from 1837.  Call Number:  CS71 D24 1981.

Ivan Ernest Bass.  Bass Family History:  Esau Bass (Revolutionary Soldier) His Brother Jonathan Bass, and Their Descendants.  Washington, DC:  1955.  Marion County, Mississippi.  Call Number:  CS71 B356 1955.

L.A. Beckman Jr.  History of Bethsalem Presbyterian Church, Choctaw County, Mississippi, 1839-1926.  Weir, MS:  Winston County Journal.  Call Number:  BX9211 M7 B4.

Randall J. Bedwell.  "A History of the Fraternities and Sororities at Ole Miss:  1848-1930."  M.A. thesis; University of Mississippi; 1991. 

J.B. Bell.  Hernando Baptist Church, 1840-1990.  [Hernando, MS:  1990].  Call Number:  F349 H4 B4 1990.

Nyleen Barnett Bell.  Some Spight Family Records, Tippah County, Mississippi (ca. 1829-Early 1900s):  Including Captain Thomas Spight...  1995.  Call Number:  F347 T45 S66 1995.

Richard Thomas Bennett.  "A History of Simpson County, Mississippi, 1824-1962."  M.A. thesis; Mississippi College; 1962.  Call Number:  F347 S5 B4.

Harper Caldwell Bernard.  The Presbyterian Church, Senatobia, Mississippi, 1848-1936.  Kingsville, TX:  Tex-Mex Printery, 1936.  Call Number:  BX8947 M7 S38.

Patti Carr Black.  Art in Mississippi, 1720-1980.  Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 1998.  Call Number:  N6530 M7 B63 1998 OVRS.

Martha Boman.  "A Social History of Jackson, Mississippi:  1821-1861:  State Capital in the Old South."  M.S. thesis; University of Mississippi; 1952. 

The Bon Accord Commemorating the 125th Anniversary of Aberdeen, Mississippi, 1837-1962.  Aberdeen, MS:  Allmond Printing Co., [1962].  Call Number:  F349 A24 B6.

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.  Two volumes.  Call Number:  F341 B765 1993a.

J.L. Boyd.  A Popular History of the Baptists in Mississippi.  Jackson, MS:  Baptist Press, 1930.  Call Number:  BX6248 M7 B6.

Katherine Branton and Alice C. Wade.  Early Mississippi Records:  Bolivar County.  [Leland, MS]:  1988.  1836-1904; three volumes.  Call Number:  F347 B6 B73 1988.

J.L. Boyd.  An Abstract History of the Simpson County Baptist Association (Originally Strong River) 1853-1927, 75 Years.  [19--].  Call Number:  BX6209 M7 S53.

Asa Thomas Briley.  "Suffrage and Apportionment in Mississippi to 1861:  A Study in the Relation Between Population Groups and Their Representation in Legislative Bodies."  M.A. thesis; University of Mississippi; 1934.

Brookhaven Centennial, August 23-28, 1959:  Commemorating the Incorporation of Brookhaven, 9n 1858-1859 and More than 100 Years of Progress as a Community... Brookhaven, MS:  1959.  Call Number:  F349 B765 B76 1959.

A.J. Brown.  History of Newton County, Mississippi, from 1834 to 1894.  Jackson, MS:  Clarion-Ledger Co., 1894.  Call Number:  F347 N48 B7.

Andrew Brown.  History of Tippah County, Mississippi:  The First Century.  Ripley, MS:  Tippah County Historical and Genealogical Society, 1976.  1836-1936.  Call Number:  F347 T45 T56.

Maude Morrow Brown.  The History of the First Presbyterian Church of Oxford, Mississippi, July 15, 1837 -- March 31, 1950.  Oxford, MS:  [1950].  Call Number:  BX8947 M7 O9.

Vernon S. Broyles.  History of the First Presbyterian Church of Canton, Mississippi:  1837-1937.  [Canton, MS:  Canton Herald, 1937].  Call Number:  BX8949 C3 B7.

George W. Brown.  Reminiscences of Gov. R.J. Walker:  With the True Story of the Rescue of Kansas from Slavery.  Rockford, IL:  1902.  U.S. Senator from Mississippi (135-1845).  Call Number:  F685 B873 1902.

George T. Buckley.  "Joseph B. Cobb:  Mississippi Essayist and Critic." Reprint from American Literature Vol. 10, No. 2 (May 1938).  Call Number:  F342 C65 B8.

Nash K. Burger.  A History of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Jackson, Mississippi, 1839-1944.  [Jackson, MS:  1944].  Call Number:  BX5919 J3 B8.

James Barnard Butler.  Protestantism in Mississippi:  The First Fifty Years, 1773-1823.  1965.  Call Number:  BR555 M7 B88 1965.

Pierce Butler.  The Unhurried Years:  Memories of the Old Natchez Region.  Louisiana State University Press, [1948].  Laurel Hill plantation in Adams County, Mississippi.  Call Number:  F349 N2 B8.

Cyril Edward Cain.  Flags over Mississippi:  Sixteen Variants of the Seven Flags of the Seven Nations Which Have Had Dominion over Mississippi in the Last Four Hundred Years.  [State College, MS:  1954].  Call Number:  CR114 M55 C3.

J.B. Cain.  The Cradle of Mississippi Methodism.  Natchez, MS:  1920.  Call Number:  BX8248 M7 C3.

J.B. Cain.  Magnolia Methodist Church, 1856-1956:  A History of Magnolia Methodist Church.  Nashville:  Parthenon Press, [1961].  Call Number:  BX8481 M3 C3 1961.

J.B. Cain.  Methodism in the Mississippi Conference, 1846-1870.  Jackson, MS:  Hawkins Foundation; [1939].  Call Number:  BX8248 M7 J63.

California Agricultural Experiment Station.  "In Memoriam.  Eugene Woldemar Hilgard."  Reprint University of California Chronicle Vol. 18, No. 2 (1916).  Mississippi geologist.  Call Number:  S417 H6 I5.

Mary Effie Cameron.  "The Summer of 1835 in Mississippi History."  M.A. thesis; University of Mississippi; 1931.

Thomas Battle Carroll.  Historical Sketches of Oktibbeha County (Mississippi).  Gulfport, MS:  Dixie Press, 1931.  Call Number:  F347 O4 C2.

Cass Canfield.  The Iron Will of Jefferson Davis.  New York:  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.  Call Number:  E467.1 D26 C3.

Albert E. Casey, et al.  Amite County, Mississippi, 1699-1865:  Data Selected, Analyzed and Comp. from the Records on File in the Courthouse at Liberty, Mississippi; in the Mississippi Dept. of the Interior, Washington, D.C.; and from Various Bibliographic Sources.  Birmingham, AL:  Amite County Historical Fund, 1948-1957.  Three volumes.  Call Number:  F347 A5 C3.

Wirt Armistead Cate.  Lucius Q.C. Lamar:  Secession and Reunion.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, [1935].  Call Number:  E664 L2 C37.

Helen Tunnicliff Catterall.  Judicial Cases Concerning American Slavery and the Negro.  Washington, DC:  Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1926-1937.  Special Collections has Volume 3 on Georgie, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  Call Number:  E441 C35.

Wendy Cegielski.  "A GIS-Based Analysis of Chickasaw Settlement in Northeast Mississippi:  1650-1840."  M.A. thesis; University of Mississippi; 2010.

Celebrating 150 Years, 1849-1999:  First Baptist Church, 201 West Main Street, Okolona, MS  38860.  [Okolna, MS:  1999].  Call Number:  BX6480 O36 C32 1999.

The Celebration of Annò Centesimo Septuginta Quinque, the 175th Year:  Trinity Episicopal Church, Natchez, Mississippi.  [Natchez, MS:  1997].  Call Number:  BX5980 N27 C45 1997.

A Century and a Half of Worship:  St. Paul's Episcopal Church Sesquicentennial, Woodville, Mississippi.  [Woodville, MS:  1973].  1823-1973.  Call Number:  BX5980 W6 C46 1973.

Joseph E. Chance.  Jefferson Davis's Mexican War Regiment.  Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi.  1st Mississippi Infantry Regiment.  Call Number:  E409.5 M56 C47 1991.

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.

Edwin M. Chapman.  "Land Speculation in Tate County:  1836-1861."  M.A. thesis; University of Mississippi; 1942.  Tate County, Mississippi.

Character-Glimpses of Most Reverend William Henry Elder, D.D., Second Archbishop of Cincinnati:  Bishop of Natchez 1857-1879, Titular Bishop of Avara and Coadjutor to the Archbishop of Cincinnati 1880-1882, Archbishop of Cincinnati 1883-1904...  Ratisbon, NY:  Pustet, 1911.  Call Number:  BX4705 E4 C33.

William J. Chute.  "The Life of Frederick A.P. Barnard to His Election as President of Columbia College in 1864."  Thesis; Columbia University; 1951.  Chancellor of the University of Mississippi (1856-1861).  Call Number:  LD3412.1 B3 C3 1951.

F.W. Cirlot.  Celebration of the American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976, and a Brief History of the First United Methodist Church:  Moss Point, Jackson County, Mississippi.  Pascagoula, MS:  Lewis Printing Service, 1976.  1852-1976 church history.  Call Number:  BX8481 M68 C5 1976.

J.F.H. Claiborne.  Life and Times of Gen. Sam Dale:  The Mississippi Partisan.  New York:  Harper & Brothers, 1860.  Creek War 1813-1814.  Call Number:  F396 D13 C4 1860.

J.F.H. Claiborne.  Mississippi, as Province, Territory, and State:  With Biographical Notices of Eminent Citizens.  Jackson, MS:  Power & Barksdale, 1880.  Call Number:  F341 C58.

Alexander M. Clayton.  Centennial Address on the History of Marshall County.  Delivered by A.M. Clayton, at Holly Springs, Mississippi, August 12th, 1876.  Washington, DC:  R.O. Polkinhorn, 1880.  Call Number:  F347 M3 C6.

Clear Creek Baptist Church:  A Sesquicentennial History, 1836-1986.  [Oxford, MS:  1986].  Oxford, Mississippi.  Call Number:  BX6480 O94 C54 1986.

Robert M. Coates.  The Outlaw Years:  The History of the Land Pirates of the Natchez Trace.  New York:  Macaulay Company, [1930].  Call Number:  F396 C65.

Monroe F. Cockrell.  After Sundown:  Those Dueling Editors of Vicksburg, 1841-1860; and "Casket of Reminiscences," by Henry S. Foote, 1874.  Evanston, IL:  1961.  Call Number:  CR4595 U6 C6 1961.

Monroe F. Cockrell.  Those Dueling Editors of Vicksburg, 1841-1860:  A Study from Contemporary Newspapers.  [Evanston, IL]:  1956.  Call Number:  CR4595 U5 C56 1956.

Thomas D. Cockrell.  "Meadow Woods, 1839-1989:  A Mississippi Plantation."  Ph.D. dissertation; Mississippi State University, 1989.  Oktibbeha County.  Call Number:  F347 O4 C624 1989b.

William L. Coker.  Repudiation and Reaction:  Tilghman M. Tucker and the Mississippi Bond Question.  [Floral Park, NY:  Graphiccopy, 1969].  Call Number:  HJ8372 C58.

J.P. Coleman.  Choctaw County Chronicles:  A History of Choctaw County, Mississippi, 1830-1973.  Ackerman, MS:  1973.  Call Number:  F347 C45 C6.

College Hill Presbyterian Church (Oxford, Miss.).  A Foundation in Christ:  The History and Recipes of College Hill Presbyterian Church, College Hill, Mississippi.  [University, MS:  2001].  1835-2001.  Call Number:  BX8949 O94 F68 2001.

Charles E. Colliflower.  "A Check-List of Mississippi Imprints from 1831 through 1840:  With an Historical Introduction of the Period."  M.S. thesis; Catholic University of America; 1950.  Call Number:  Z1301 C6.

Luke Ward Conerly.  Pike County, Mississippi, 1789-1876:  Pioneer Families and Confederate Soldiers, Reconstruction and Redemption.  Nashville:  Brandon Printing, 1909.  Call Number:  F347 P6 C7 1909a.

Joseph D. Conwill.  Joseph Daniel Conwill of Mississippi and Oklahoma, 1852-1935:  His Life, His Ancestors, His Descendants.  [Rangeley, ME:  1994].  Call Number:  CS71 C69 1994.

William J. Cooper.  Jefferson Davis, American.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.  Call Number:  E467.1 D26 C66 2000.

Corinth Centennial Inc.  Official Publication of the Corinth Centennial, Inc.:  Commemorating Corinth's 100th Anniversary Held in Corinth, Mississippi, May 16-22, 1954.  Corinth, MS:  1954.  Call Number:  F349 C67 C67 1954.

Gordon A. Cotton.  Of Primitive Faith and Order:  A History of the Mississippi Primitive Baptist Church, 1780-1974.  Raymond, MS:  Keith Press, 1974.  Call Number:  BX6384 M7 C68.

E.B. Cox.  Life and Work of Eld. James P. Johnson together with Choice Selections of Prose and Verse.  Biloxi, MS:  Herald Book Print, 1895.  Preacher in southern Mississippi.  Call Number:  BX6495 J6 C6.

T.W. Crigler, Jr., ed.  History of the First Baptist Church, 1835-1960, Macon, Mississippi.  Montgomery, AL:  Paragon Press, 1960.  Call Number:  BX6480 M33 H57 1960.

Lynda Lasswell Crist.  "'Useful in His Day and Generation':  James Alexander Ventress (1805-1867)."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Tennessee, Knoxville; 1980.  Mississippi planter and politician.  Call Number:  F341 V45 C6.

E.T. Crowson.  "The Life and Thought of George Frederick Holmes."  Thesis; American University; 1952.  Chancellor of the University of Mississippi (1848-1849).  Call Number:  CT275 H6447 C76 1952a.

Crystal Springs' Centennial Celebration, 1858-1958:  This Old House on Happy Land.  Crystal Springs, MS:  The Meteor, [1958].  Call Number:  F349 C79 C79 1958 OVRS.

Elizabeth M. Curlee.  "The Phenix:  Hernando, Mississippi, 1841-1846."  M.A. thesis; University of Mississippi; 1970.

H.B. Cushman.  History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians.  Greenville, TX:  Headlight Printing House, 1899.  Call Number:  E99 C8 C9.

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

William Moore Dalehite.  A History of the Public Schools in Jackson, Mississippi.  [1974].  Call Number:  LA315 J32 D34.

John W. Daniel.  Life and Reminiscences of Jefferson Davis.  By Distinguished Men of His Time.  Baltimore:  R.H. Woodward & Company, 1890.  Call Number:  D467.1 D26 L53.

Edwin Adams Davis and William Ransom Hogan.  The Barber of Natchez:  Wherein a Slave Is Freed and Rises to a Very High Standing Wherein the Former Slave Writes a Two-Thousand-Page Journal about His Town and Himself; Wherein the Free Negro Diarist Is Appraised in Terms of His Friends, His Code, and Community's Reaction to His Wanton Murder.  Baton Rouge:  Louisiana State University Press, [1973].  Call Number:  E185.97 J697 D3 1973.

Jeanne Truly Davis, comp.  Truly Family:  Descendants of Hector Truly:  Allied Families Key and Whitney:  Glimpses of Mississippi, 1800-1900.  [Waco, TX]:  2000.  Call Number:  CS71 T86757 2000.

Ronald L.F. Davis.  The Black Experience in Natchez, 1720-1880:  Special History Study:  Natchez National Historical Park Mississippi.  [Conchohocken, PA]:  Eastern National Park and Monument Association, 1994.  Call Number:  F349 N2 D38 1994.

William C. Davis.  Jefferson Davis:  The Man and His Hour.  New York:  HarperCollins, 1991.  Call Number:  E467.1 D26 D32 1991.

William Graham Davis.  "Attacking 'The Matchless Evil':  Temperance and Prohibition in Mississippi, 1817-1908."  Thesis; Mississippi State University; 1975.  Call Number:  HV5090 M7 D39.

James T. Dawson.  Antioch Primitive Baptist Church, Scott County, Mississippi, 1835-1920.  Meridian, MS:  Lauderdale County Dept. of Archives and History, 1991.  Call Number:  BX6385 S2 D39 1991.

Delta Staple Cotton Festival Association,  Inc.  One Hundred Years of Progress in the Mississippi Delta:  Clarksdale, Coahoma County, 1836-1936.  [Clarksdale, MS:  1936].  Call Number:  F347 C7 O54.

Susan C. Ditto.  "Conjugal Duty:  Domestic Culture on the Southern Frontier, 1830-1910."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Mississippi; 1998.  Mississippi.

William Edward Dodd.  Jefferson Davis.  Philadelphia:  G.W. Jacobs & Company, [1907].  Call Number:  E467.1 D26 D8.

William Edward Dodd.  Robert J. Walker, Imperialist.  Chicago:  Chicago Literary Club, 1914.  Call Number:  E415.9 W2 D6 1914.

William Edward Dodd.  Robert J. Walker, Imperialist.  Gloucester, MA:  P. Smith, 1967.  Call Number:  E415.9 W2 D6 1967.

Kevin Dougherty.  Weapons of Mississippi.  Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 2010.  Call Number:  U818 D68 2010.

B.M. Drake.  A Sketch of the Life of Rev. Elijah Steele.  Cincinatti:  Methodist Book Concern, 1843.  Steele was a Mississippi minister.  Call Number:  BX8495 S78 D7.

Winbourne Magruder Drake.  "Constitutional Developments in Mississippi, 1817-1865."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of North Carolina; 1954.  Call Number:  JK4616 D7 1954.

Winbourne Magruder Drake.  "The Mississippi Constitutional Convention of 1832."  Reprint from Journal of Southern History Vol. 23, No. 3 (August 1957).  Call Number:  JK4616 D73 1957.

Winbourne Magruder Drake.  Outline of History of Jefferson Military College, 1802-1952.  [Washington, MS:  1952].  Call Number:  LD7501 W33 D7.

Winbourne Magruder Drake.  The Planters Bank and Union Bank Bonds of Mississippi.  [Church Hill, MS:  1931].  Call Number:  HG4925 M7 D7.

Mildred E. Nero Drinkard.  Contributions of Blacks in Building Vicksburg, Mississippi and Its Environmental Systems, 1820-1989:  A Resource-Based Planning Study.  Vicksburg, MS:  City Planning Dept., [1989].  Call Number:  F349 V6 D7 1989.

Robert W. Dubay.  John Jones Pettus, Mississippi Fire-Eater:  His Life and Times, 1813-1867.  Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 1975.  Call Number:  F341 P47 D82.

Donald Philip Duclos.  Son of Sorrow:  The Life, Works, and Influence of Colonel William C. Falkner, 1825-1889.  San Francisco:  International Scholars Publications, 1998.  Mississippi author, businessman, and military leader.  Call Number:  PS1654 F47 Z6 1998.

Rosalie Q. Duncan.  "Life of Gen. John A. Quitman."  Reprint from Publications of Mississippi Historical Society Vol. 4 (1901).  Call Number:  E403.1 Q8 D8.

Dennis East II.  "Land Speculation in the Chickasaw Cession:  A Study of the New York and Mississippi Land Company, 1835-1889."  M.S. thesis; University of Wisconsin; 1964.  Call Number:  HD243 M7 E3.

Clement Eaton.  Jefferson Davis.  New York:  Free Press, 1977.  Call Number:  E467.1 D26 E24.

Fred W. Edmiston.  Lauderdale, Mississippi's Empire County.  Volume 1.  The Early Years, 1830-1865.  Meridian, MS:  Lauderdale Co. Dept. of Archives and History, 2005.  Call Number:  F347 L3 E36 2005.

Lucius F. Ellsworth, ed.  The Americanization of the Gulf Coast, 1803-1850.  Pensacola, FL:  Historic Pensacola Preservation Board, 1972.  Call Number:  F296 G87 1971.

W.S. Eskridge.  Eskridge's Early History of Tallahatchie County, Mississippi.  Carrollton, MS:  Pioneer Pub. Co., [199-].  Reprinted from 1904-1905 newspaper articles.  Call Number:  F347 T3 E75 1990z.

W.A. Evans.  A History of First Baptist Church, Aberdeen, Miss., 1837 to 1945, Inclusive.  Aberdeen, MS:  1945.  Call Number:  BX6480 A2 F5.

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

Beth Ferguson.  Raymond:  A History...1821-1876.  [1976].  Raymond, Mississippi.  Call Number:  F349 R38 F48.

James Smith Ferguson.  "A History of Music in Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1820-1900."  Thesis; University of Michigan; 1970.  Call Number:  ML197.8 V5 F4.

Guy Fulton Ferrell.  "A Study of Political, Social, and Economic Conditions in Pontotoc County, Mississippi to 1860."  M.A. thesis; University of Mississippi.

First Presbyterian Church, Oxford, Mississippi, July 15, 1837-July 15, 1987:  One Hundred Fifty Years of Service.  [Oxford, MS:  1987].  Call Number:  BX9211 O94 F57 1987.

O.P. Fitzgerald.  Judge Longstreet:  A Life Sketch.  Nashville:  Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1891.  Augustus Baldwin Longstreet was Chancellor of the University of Mississippi 1849-1856.  Call Number:  PS2299 L4 Z6.

Walter L. Fleming.  "The Early Life of Jefferson Davis."  Reprint from the Mississippi Valley Historical Review Extra Number (April 1917).  Call Number:  E467.1 D26 F4.

Walter L. Fleming.  "Jefferson Davis at West Point."  Reprint from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society Vol. 10 (1910).  Call Number:  E467.1 D26 F542 1910.

Walter L. Fleming.  "Jefferson Davis' First Marriage."  Reprint from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society Vol. 12 (1910).  Call Number:  E467.1 D26 F54 1910.

L.S. Foster.  History of the Columbus Baptist Association:  From 1840 to 1880.  Starkville, MS:  Novelty Job Printing Office, 1881.  Call Number:  BX6249 C648 F6 1881.

Lula Mae Fowler.  "A History of Panola County, 1836-1860."  M.A. thesis; University of Mississippi; 1960.  Panola County, Mississippi.

John Fulton.  Memoirs of Frederick A.P. Barnard, Tenth President of Columbia College in the City of New York.  New York:  Macmillan and Co., 1896.  Chancellor of the University of Mississippi 1856-1861.  Call Number:  LD1245 1864 F9.

Franklin County Remembers, 1809-2009.  [Meadville, MS:  Franklin Co. Bicentennial, 2009].  Three volumes.  Call Number:  F347 F7 F736 2009

Joseph Miller Free.  "Studies in American Theatre History:  The Theatre of Southwestern Mississippi to 1840."  Ph.D. dissertation; State University of Iowa; 1941.  Two volumes.  Call Number:  PN2275 M7 F7.

Samuel Gibbs French.  Two Wars:  An Autobiography of Gen. Samuel G. French.  Nashville:  Confederate Veteran, 1901.  Became a Mississippi planter in 1858.  Call Number:  E467.1 F87 T9.

Herman S. Frey.  Jefferson Davis.  Nashville:  Frey Enterprises, 1977.  Call Number:  E467.1 D26 F749 1977.

James Wilford Garner.  "The First Struggle over Secession in Mississippi."  Reprint from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society Vol. 4.  Call Number:  F341 G22.

Claude Gentry.  General Nathan Bedford Forrest:  The Boy and the Man.  Baldwyn, MS:  Magnolia Publishers, 1972.  Call Number:  E467.1 F72 G45.

Mrs. Claude Gentry.  A Brief History of the Mt. Olive Baptist Church.  [1951].  1851-1951. Prentiss County, Mississippi.  Call Number:  BX6480 P74 G46 1951.

James Z. George.  The Political History of Slavery in the United States...with a Foreword and a Sketch of the Author's Life by William Hayne Leavell and with a Pref., Somewhat in the Nature of a Personal Tribute.  New York:  Neale, 1915.  J.Z. George was a U.S. Senator from Mississippi (1881-1897).  Call Number:  E415.7 G34.

R.O. Gerow.  Catholicity in Mississippi.  Natchez, MS:  1939.  Call Number:  BX1415 M7 G4.

R.O. Gerow.  Cradle Days of St. Mary's at Natchez.  Natchez, MS:  1941.  Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of Sorrows in Natchez, Mississippi from 1798.  Call Number:  BX4603 N34 A3.

Neal C. Gillespie.  The Collapse of Orthodoxy:  The Intellectual Ordeal of George Frederick Holmes.  Charlottesville:  University Press of Virginia, [1972].  Chancellor of the University of Mississippi 1848-1849.  Call Number:  CT275 H6447 C55.

Sanford Charles Gladden.  A History of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Mississippi:  1848-1932.  University of Mississippi, 1994.  Call Number:  LD3413 G43 1994.

David Thomas Gleeson.  "The Mississippi Irish, 1700-1865."  M.A. thesis; Mississippi State University, 1993.  Call Number:  E184 I6 G44 1995.

John Edmond Gonzales.  "The Public Career of Henry Stuart Foote (1804-1880)."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of North Carolina; 1957.  Mississippi politician.  Call Number:  E415.9 F7 G6.

Armistead C. Gordon.  Jefferson Davis.  New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1918.  Call Number:  E467.1 D26 G6.

E.W. Gould.  Fifty Years on the Mississippi: or, Gould's History of River Navigation...  Saint Louis:  Nixon-Jones Printing Co., 1889.  Call Number:  F351 G69.

Elizabeth Ann McMillan Green.  "A Study of the Development of Elementary Education in Bolivar County, Mississippi, 1838 -- June 1970."  Thesis; University of Southern Mississippi; 1972.  Call Number:  LB1561 M7 G74.

Memoir of Rt. Rev. James Hervey Otey, D.D., LL.D., the First Bishop of Tennessee.  New York:  J. Pott and Company, 1885.  Elected in 1833 and also took charge of the Diocese of Mississippi.  Call Number:  BX5995 O7 G8.

Helen Griffith.  Dauntless in Mississippi; The Life of Sarah A. Dickey, 1838-1904.  South Hadley, MA:  Dinosaur Press, [1966].  Call Number:  LA2317 D47 G7 1966.

Lucille Blanche Griffith.  "An Economic History of Amite County, Mississippi, 1820-1860."  M.A. thesis; Tulane University; 1942.  Call Number:  HC107 M7 G76.

Benjamin Griffen.  History of the Primitive Baptists of Mississippi:  From the First Settlement by the Americans up to the Middle of the XIXth Century.  [Jonesboro, AR:  Sammons Printing Co., 1958].  Reprint of 1853 edition.  Call Number:  BX6384 M7 G8 1853a.

Secondary Source Publications Related to Mississippi H-P

John William Hadskey.  A History of Franklin County, Mississippi to 1861.  Vicksburg, MS:  The Guice Family Association, 1954.  Call Number:  F347 F7 H3385 1954.

Raymond Allen Hagood.  Ripley Rebel:  The Life and Times of Colonel William Falkner.  Hayti, MO:  Hagood, 1972.  Call Number:  PS3558 A323 R5 1972.

Martha Lacy Hall.  An Historical Sketch of Magnolia, Miss.:  Centennial Celebration, Magnolia, Mississippi, 1856-1956.  [Magnolia, MS:  1956].  Call Number:  F349 M33 H34.

Linda Virginia Hamil.  "A Study of Theatrical Activity in Natchez, Mississippi from 1800-1840."  M.A. thesis; University of Mississippi; 1976.

Alfred P. Hamilton.  Galloway Memorial Methodist Church, 1836-1956...  [Nashville:  Panthenon, 1956].  Jackson, Mississippi.  Call Number:  BX8481 J32 G33.

William Baskerville Hamilton.  Holly Springs, Mississippi to the Year 1878.  Holly Springs, MS:  Marshall County Historical Society, 1984.  Call Number:  F349 H79 H36 1984.

E.L. Hammond, et al.  "Drug and Medical Advertising in Woodville, Miss., 1823-1843."  Reprint from Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association, Vol. 9, No. 3 (March 1948).  Call Number:  HF616 D7 H36.

William Lee Hamrick.  The Mississippi Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church.  An Account of the Methodist Protestant Church at Work in the Territory of the Mississippi Conference During All the Years -- 1829 to 1939.  Jackson, MS:  Hawkins Foundation, [1957].  Call Number:  BX8248 M7 J645.

Martin J. Hardeman.  The Structure of Time:  Pike County, Mississippi, 1815-1912.  New York:  P. Lang, 1999.  Call Number:  F347 P6 H37 1999.

Marion Franklin Harmon.  A History of the Christian Churches (Disciples of Christ) in Mississippi.  Aberdeen, MS:  1929.  Call Number:  BX7317 M7 H3.

Robert George Hartje.  Van Dorn:  The Life and Times of a Confederate General.  [Nashville]:  Vanderbilt University Press, 1967.  Call Number:  E467.1 V2 H3.

J.C. Hathorn.  A History of Grenada County.  [Grenada, MS:  Elizabeth Jones Library, 1968].  Grenada County, Mississippi 1833-1900.  Call Number:  F347 G7 H3.

John Cooper Hathorn.  Early Settlers of Lafayette Co., Mississippi:  A Period Study of Lafayette County from 1836-1860, with Emphasis on Population Groups.  [Oxford, MS]:  Skipwith Historical and Genealogical Society, 1980.  Call Number:  F347 L2 H38.

John Cooper Hathorn.  "A Period Study of Lafayette County from 1836 to 1860, with Emphasis on Population Groups."  M.A. thesis; University of Mississippi; 1939. 

Nathaniel Christopher Hathorn.  "A Financial History of the University of Mississippi from Its Endowment in 1819 to 1900."  M.A. thesis; University of Mississippi; 1938.

Herman Hattaway.  General Stephen D. Lee.  Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 1976.  Call Number:  E467.1 L42 H37.

Herman Hattaway.  "Stephen Dill Lee:  A Biography."  Ph.D. dissertation; Louisiana State University; 1969.  Call Number:  F341 L9 H38.

Henry Gabriel Hawkins and Warren C. Black.  Methodism in Natchez...Including "A Centennial Retrospect; or, Methodism in Natchez, Miss., from 1799 to 1884."  Jackson, MS:  Hawkins Foundation, [1937].  Call Number:  BX8249 N25 H3.

Joseph Allen Hazel.  "The Geography of Negro Agricultural Slavery in Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi, Circa 1860."  Thesis; Columbia University; 1963.  Call Number:  E441 H3.

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

Marie H. Hemphill.  Fevers, Floods, and Faith:  A History of Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1844-1976.  Indianola, MS:  1980.  Call Number:  F347 S9 H4.

Janet Sharp Hermann.  Joseph E. Davis:  Pioneer Patriarch.  Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 1990.  Mississippi plantation owner 1784-1870.  Call Number:  F341 D25 H47 1990.

Todd Ashley Herring.  "Natchez, 1795-1830:  Life and Death on the Slavery Frontier."  Ph.D. dissertation; Mississippi State University, 2000.  Call Number:  F349 N2 H47 2000a.

Julius Herscovici.  Bernhard Henry Gotthelf:  The First Reform Rabbi of Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Vicksburg, MS:  2001.  Call Number:  BM755 G69 H47 2001.

Nollie Wade Hickman.  "History of Forest Industries in the Longleaf Pine Belt of East Louisiana and Mississippi, 1840-1915."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Texas; 1958.  Call Number:  HD9757 M7 H48.

Nollie Hickman.  Mississippi Harvest:  Lumbering in the Longleaf Pine Belt, 1840-1915.  University, MS:  1962.  Call Number:  HD9757 M7 H5.

A History of the First Baptist Church of Holly Springs, Mississippi 1837-1987.  [Holly Springs, MS]:  1987.  Call Number:  BX6480 H65 H57 1987.

The History of the First Baptist Church of Kosciusko, Mississippi, 1848-1998.  [Kosciusko, MS:  1998].  Call Number:  BX6480 K6 F5 1998.

History of the First United Methodist Church of Columbia, 1823-1989.  [1989].  Call Number:  BX8481 C6 H57 1989.

A History of Grace Episcopal Church, Canton, Mississippi, 1848-1948:  Commemorating the One Hundredth Anniversary of Grace Parish.  [Canton, MS:  Herald Printing, 1948].  Call Number:  BX5917 M7 C3.

Ray Holder.  The Mississippi Methodists, 1799-1983:  A Moral People "Born of Conviction.  [Jackson, MS]:  Maverick Prints, 1984.  Call Number:  BX8248 M7 H65 1984.

Ray Holder.  William Winans:  Methodist Leader in Antebellum Mississippi.  Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 1976.  Call Number:  BX8495 W657 H64.

Grover Cleveland Hooker.  "The Origin and Development of the University of Mississippi, with Special Reference to Its Legislative Control."  Ph.D. dissertation; Stanford University; 1932.  Call Number:  LD3413 H58 1932.

H.R. Howard.  The History of Virgil A. Stewart and His Adventure in Capturing and Exposing the Great "Western Land Pirate" and His Gang, in Connection with the Evidence:  Also of the Trials, Confessions, and Execution of a Number of Murrell's Associates in the State of Mississippi during the Summer of 1835, and the Execution of Five Professional Gamblers by the Citizens of Vicksburg, on the 6th July, 1835.  Spartanburg, SC:  Reprint Co., 1976.  Reprint of 1836 edition.  Call Number:  F341 H696 1836a

H. Grady Howell.  We Gather Together:  Thanksgiving Day in Mississippi, 1847-1997.  Madison, MS:  1997.  Call Number:  GT4975 H69 1997.

Huey B. Howerton.  "Mississippi Unconstitutional Legislation, 1817-1942."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Texas; 1943.  Call Number:  JK4625 1943 H6.

Frances Rossman Huff.  "The Relationship of Oxford and the University of Mississippi, 1848-1947."  M.A. thesis; University of Mississippi; 1947.

Dudley J. Hughes.  Oil in the Deep South:  A History of the Oil Business in Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, 1859-1945.  Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 1993.  Call Number:  HD9567 M7 H84 1993.

Alfred Hume.  Dr. John Millington (1799-1868):  Distinguished Pupil of Michael Faraday and Sir Humphrey Davy and Others during 100 Years of the University of Mississippi.  New York:  Newcomen Society of North America, 1950.  Call Number:  LD3413 H8.

J.R. Hutchison.  Reminiscences, Sketches and Addresses Selected from My Papers during a Ministry of Forty-Five Years in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.  Houston, TX:  E.H. Cushing, 1874.  Call Number:  BX9225 H85 A3.

In Celebration:  Williams Landing, Carroll County Sesquicentennial.  Williams Landing, MS:  1983.  1833-1983.  Call Number:  F349 G82 I5 1983 OVRS.

Anthony Bruce Ingram.  "Stones:  The Interaction of Baptist Life and the Community in Tippah County, Mississippi, 1840-1930."  M.A. thesis; University of Mississippi; 1994.

Anthony Bruce Ingram.  "Surviving in Tippah County Farm, Faith, and Family Connections, Tippah County, Mississippi 1840-1880."  Ph.D dissertation; University of Mississippi; 2001.

Jackson (Miss.).  Galloway Memorial Church.  Souvenir.  One Hundred Years of Methodism in Jackson, Mississippi, 1836-1936.  Jackson, MS:  1936.  Call Number:  BX8249 J3 M7.

Hans Jenny.  E.W. Hilgard and the Birth of Modern Soil Science.  Pisa:  1961.  Mississippi geologist.  Call Number:  S417 H6 J4.

Matthew R. Johnson.  "Defenders of Liberty:  The Mississippi States Righters, 1832-1834."  M.A. thesis; University of Mississippi; 2003.

John G. Jones.  A Complete History of Methodism as Connected with the Mississippi Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1799-1845.  Baton Rouge:  Claitor's Book Store, 1966.  Call Number:  BX8248 M7 J6 1966.

John Junior Jones.  "A Historiographical Study of Jefferson Davis."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Missouri, Columbus; 1970.  Call Number:  E467.1 D26 J76.

Samuel H. Kaye, et al.  By the Flow of the Inland River:  The Settlement of Columbus, Mississippi to 1825.  Columbus, MS:  Snapping Turtle Press, 1992.  Call Number:  F349 C7 K39 1992.

Guy Herbert Keeton.  "The Theatre in Mississippi from 1840-1870."  Thesis: Louisiana State University; 1979.  Call Number:  PN2275 M7 K44.

Kemper County Historical Association.  Kemper County:  Sesquicentennial Celebration, 1833-1983.  [DeKalb, MS:  1983].  Call Number:  K347 K3 K4456 1833-1983.

Gloria L. Kerns.  Early Newspapers of Natchez, Mississippi 1800-1828.  Shreveport, LA:  J.S.W. Enterprises, 1993.  Call Number:  F349 N2 K47 1993.

Clara Sue Kidwell.  Choctaws and Missionaries in Mississippi, 1818-1918.  Call Number:  E99 C8 K53 1995.

James Raiford Killebrew.  "Development of the Railroads of Mississippi before 1861."  M.A. thesis; University of Mississippi; 1927.

Landon Knight.  The Real Jefferson Davis.  Battle Creek, MI:  Pilgrim Magazine Company, 1904.  Call Number:  E467.1 D26 K7.

Irma May Lang.  "Defender of the Faith:  A Study of the Opinions of the High Court of Mississippi, 1817-75."  Ph.D. dissertation: Harvard University; 1972.  Call Number:  KFM7112 L36 1972.

John H. Lang.  History of Harrison County, Mississippi.  Gulfport, MS:  Dixie Press, 1936.  Call Number:  F347 H3 L3.

Meredith Lang.  Defender of the Faith:  The High Court of Mississippi, 1817-1875.  Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 1977.  Call Number:  KFM7112 L36.

Eric Langhein.  Jefferson Davis, Patriot:  A Biography, 1808-1865.  New York:  Vantage Press, [1962].  Call Number:  E467.1 D26 L3.

Zachary Taylor Leavell.  A Complete History of Mississippi Baptists, from the Earliest Times.  Jackson, MS:  Mississippi Baptist Publishing Co., 1904.  Three volumes.  Call Number:  BX6248 M7 L4.

Guy Carleton Lee.  The World's Orators:  Comprising the Great Orations of the World's History with Introductory Essay, Biographical Sketches, and Critical Notes.  New York:  G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903.  Includes Jefferson Davis and Seargent S. Prentiss.  Call Number:  PN6121 W67 1903 vol. 10.

Anna Lewis.  Chief Pushmataha:  American Patriot.  New York:  Exposition Press, [1959].  Call Number:  E99 C8 P88.

Monte Ross Lewis.  "Chickasaw Removal:  Betrayal of the Beloved Warriors, 1794-1844."  Ph.D. dissertation; North Texas State University; 1981.  Mississippi.  Call Number:  E99 C55 L49.

William Terrell Lewis.  The Centennial History of Winston County, Mississippi.  Pasadena, TX:  Globe Publishers International, 1970.  Originally published in 1876.  Call Number:  F347 W7 L42.

David J. Libby.  "Plantation and Frontier:  Slavery in Mississippi, 1720-1835."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Mississippi; 1997.  Two volumes. 

David J. Libby.  Slavery and Frontier Mississippi, 1720-1835.  Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 2004.  Call Number:  E445 M6 L53 2004.

Gildeon Lincecum.  Pushmataha:  A Choctaw Leader and His People.  Tuscaloosa:  University of Alabama Press, 2004.  Mississippi.  Call Number:  E99 C8 P89 2004.

C.E. Lindgren.  "Panola Education:  A Historical Interpretation of the Educational Factors between 1836 and the Present which Led to the Formation and Growth of the South Panola Consolidated School System."  Fellow of the College of Preceptors; College of Preceptors (Essex); 1993.  Call Number:  LA314 P3 L5 1993 OVRS.

Dabney Lipscomb.  "General Stephen D. Lee:  His Life, Character and Services."  Reprint from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society Vol. 10 (1909).  Call Number:  E467.1 L42 L57 1909.

Dabney Lipscomb.  "Mississippi's 'Backwood's Poet.'"  Reprint from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society (1898).  Samuel Newton Berryhill (1832-1887).  Call Number:  PS1095 B75 L56.

Dabney Lipscomb.  "T.A.S. Adams:  Poet, Educator and Pulpit Orator."  Reprint from Publications of Mississippi Historical Society Vol. 4 (1901).  Call Number:  QB235 S3 1985.

W.L. Lipscomb.  A History of Columbus, Mississippi during the 19th Century.  Birmingham:  Dispatch Printing Co., 1909.  Call Number:  F349 C7 L7.

Milton Lomask.  Aaron Burr, the Conspiracy and Years of Exile, 1805-1836.  New York:  Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982.  Call Number:  E302.6 B9 L72.

John H. Long.  Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.  Mississippi. New York:  Simon & Schuster, 1993.  1788-1980.  Call Number:  G120.1 F7 A8 1993 Miss.

Lowndes County (Miss).  Department of Archives and History.  A Pictorial History of the People of Lowndes County, Mississippi.  [Columbus, MS]:  1981.  1830-1981.  Call Number:  F347 L8 P5 1981.

James B. Lloyd, ed.  Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967.  Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 1981.  Call Number:  PS266 M7 L5.

James B. Lloyd.  The University of Mississippi:  The Formative Years, 1848-1906.  University, MS:  1979.  Call Number:  LD3413.3 L46.

William A. Love.  "Historic Localities on Noxubee River."  Reprint from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society Vol. 9 (1906).  Call Number:  F347 A17 L68 1906.

William Bellinger Lowrance.  The Story of the Church with the Hand Pointing Heavenward...First Presbyterian Church, Founded in 1807.  Port Gibson, MS:  The Reveille, 1953.  Call Number:  BX8947 M7 P6.

Melvin Philip Lucas.  "The Development of the Second Party System in Mississippi, 1817- 1846."  Ph.D. dissertation; Cornell University; 1983.  Call Number:  F341 L95 1984

James D. Lynch.  The Bench and the Bar of Mississippi.  New York:  E.J. Hale & Son, 1881.  Lawyers and judges.  Call Number:  F340 L98.

Bruce Duncan Mactavish.  "With Strangers United in Kindred Relation:  Education, Religion and Community in Northern Mississippi, 1836-1880."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Mississippi; 1993.

Magnolia Garden Club, Lexington, Mississippi.  Lexington, Mississippi:  Holmes County, 1833-1976.  Florence, MS:  Messenger Press, 1976.  Call Number:  F349 L49 L49.

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

Benjamin Franklin Manire.  Reminiscences of Preachers and Churches in Mississippi.  Jackson, MS:  Messenger Pub. Co., 1892.  Call Number:  BX6493 M3 R4.

Charles E. Martin.  A Heritage to Cherish:  A History of First Baptist Church, Clinton, Mississippi, 1852-2002.  Brentwood, TN:  Baptist History and Heritage Society, 2001.  Call Number:  BX6480 C45 F5 2001.

Claudia Martino.  "A Survey of Newspapers Published in Grenada, Mississippi from 1835 to 1980."  M.A. thesis; University of Mississippi; 1980.

J. Harvey Mathes.  General Forrest.  New York:  D. Appleton and Co., 1902.  Nathan Bedford Forrest.  Call Number:  E467.1 F72 M4 1902.

Royal Mattice Jr.  "Mississippi Manufactures in 1860."  M.A. thesis; University of MIssissippi; 1935.

Robert F. May.  John A. Quitman:  Old South Crusader.  Baton Rouge:  Louisiana State University Press, 1985.  Call Number:  F341 A84 M39 1985.

Edward Mayes.  Genealogy and History, a Branch of the Family of Lamar, with Its Related Families of Urquhart, Reynolds, Bird, Williamson, Gilliam, Garratt, Thompson, Herman, Empson, and Others.  [Hattiesburg, MS:  Southern Library Service, 1935].  Call Number:  CS71 L2 1935.

Edward Mayes.  Genealogical Notes on a Branch of the Family of Mayes and on the Related Families of Chappell, Bannister, Jones, Peterson, Locke, Hardaway, Thwealt and Others.  Jackson, MS:  Hederman Bros., 1928.  Call Number:  CS71 M4467 1928.

Edward Mayes.  Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet:  With Its Related Families...  [1928].  Call Number:  CS71 L85.

Edward Mayes.  Lucius Q.C. Lamar:  His Life, Times, and Speeches, 1825-1893.  Nashville:  Publishing House of the Methodist Epsiscopal Church, South, 1896.  Call Number:  E664 L2 M41.

Isabel Barksdale Maynard.  Alexander Barksdale, 1798-1850:  A Virginia Pioneer in Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi.  (2006).  Call Number:  CS71 B265 2006.

Hubert H. McAlexander.  Chalmers Institute:  1837-1879.  2015.  Holly Springs, Mississippi.  Call Number:  F349 H6 M33 2015.

Hubert H. McAlexander.  From the Chickasaw Cession to Yoknapatawpha:  Historical and Literary Essays on North Mississippi.  Oxford, MS:  Nautilus Publishing Company, 2017.  Call Number:  F341.5 F766 2017.

Hubert H. McAlexander.  A Southern Tapestry:  Marshall County, Mississippi, 1835-2000.  Virginia Beach, VA:  Donning Co. Publishers, 2000.  Call Number:  F347 M3 M37 2000.

William Stephen Mcbride.  "Flush Times on the Upper Tombigbee:  Settlement and Economic Development in Lowndes County, Mississippi, 1833-1860."  Ph.D. dissertation; Michigan State University; 1991.  Call Number:  F347 L8 M3 1991a.

William D. McCain.  Eight Generations of the Family of William Vance (1786-1844) and His Wife, Mary G. McAnulty Vance (1784-1863), of South Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi.  Hattiesburg, MS:  1974.  Call Number:  CS71 V227 1974.

William D. McCain and Charlotte Capers.  Memoirs of Henry Tillinghast Ireys:  Papers of the Washington County Historical Society, 1910-1915.  Jackson:  Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 1954.  Contains both historical accounts and memoirs on a variety of Washington County, Mississippi topics.  Call Number:  F347 W35 M3.

Richard Aubrey McLemore.  A History of Mississippi Baptists, 1780-1970.  [Jackson, MS]:  Mississippi Baptist Convention Board, [1971].  Call Number:  BX6248 M7 M25.

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

Robert McNutt McElroy.  Jefferson Davis:  The Unreal and the Real.  New York:  Harper & Brothers, 1937.  Call Number:  E467.1 D26 M24 1937a.

Edna H. McKee.  "History of Theatrical Entertainment in Jackson, Mississippi, from August 1839 to April 1860."  M.S. thesis; Florida State University; 1959.  Call Number:  PN2277 J3 M2 OVRS.

James Willette McKee.  "William Barksdale:  The Intrepid Mississippian."  Ph.D. dissertation; Mississippi State University; 1966.  Call Number:  E467.1 B246 M3.

Elma Lois Ray McKinstry.  Wallerville Baptist Church 100th Anniversary, Organized 1854-1954.  Call Number:  BX6480 W3 W3.

Richard Aubrey McLemore.  A History of Providence Baptist Church, 1818-1973.  Walter M. Lee Sr., 1969.  Hattiesburg, Mississippi.  Call Number:  BX6480 H28 M35 1969.

Richard Aubrey McLemore.  Mississippi through Four Centuries.  Chicago:  Laidlaw Brothers, 1945.  Juvenile literature.  Call Number:  F341 M2 1945.

James Hayes McLendon.  "A History of Simpson County, Mississippi to 1865."  M.A. thesis; University of Texas; 1936.  Call Number:  F347 S5 M3.

James Hayes McLendon.  "John A. Quitman."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Texas; 1949.  Call Number:  E403.1 Q8 M3.

Hallie Mae McPherson.  "William McKendree Gwin, Expansionist."  Thesis; University of California; 1978.  Call Number:  E340 G9 M3.

Grady McWhiney.  Jefferson Davis, the Unforgiven.  Biloxi, MS:  Beauvoir Press, 1989.  Call Number:  E467.1 D26 M328 1989.

Daniel J. Meador.  "Lamar and the Law at the University of Mississippi."  Reprint from Mississippi Law Journal Vol. 34, No. 3 (May 1963).  L.Q.C. Lamar.  Call Number:  E664 L2 M45.

Edwin Ernest Meek.  E. Percy Howe's Dollar Democrat:  A Frontier Mississippi Newspaper, 1842-1846.  University, MS:  Academy Press, 1963.  Oxford, Mississippi.  Call Number:  PN4899 O95 D6.

Memorials of the Life and Character of Wiley P. Harris of Mississippi.  Jackson, MS:  Clarion Printing Estab., 1892.  U.S. Representative from Mississippi (1853-1855).  Call Number:  CT6950 H3.

James Meredith.  My Native Land:  The Choctow [sic] Nation, Mississippi, 1540-1830.  Jackson, MS:  Meredith Pub., 1995.  Call Number:  F341 M47403 1995.

James Meredith.  Yockanookany:  History of Attala County, Mississippi, 1833-1917.  Jackson, MS:  Meredith Pub., 1995.  Call Number:  F341 M47404 1995.

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

Edwin Arthur Miles.  "Robert J. Walker -- His Mississippi Years."  M.A. thesis; University of North Carolina; 1949.  Call Number:  F341 W3 M5.

Gene Ramsey Miller.  A History of North Mississippi Methodism.  Nashville:  Parthenon Press, [1966].  Call Number:  BX8381 M755 M5 1966.

Mississippi Commission on the War between the States.  Civil War and Ante-Bellum History in Mississippi.  [Jackson, MS:  1963].  Call Number:  F341 M577 1963.

Mississippi Homecoming:  Celebrating 175 Years of Statehood:  Official Calendar, December 1992-December 1993.  [Jackson, MS]:  Clarion-Ledger, [1992].  Call Number:  F342 M573 1992.

Franklin E. Moak.  A History of the Alumni Association of the University of Mississippi, 1852-1986.  University, MS:  1986.  Call Number:  LD3412.4 M6 1986. 

John Hebron Moore.  The Emergence of the Cotton Kingdom in the Old Southwest:  Mississippi, 1770-1860.  Baton Rouge:  Louiana State University Press, 1988.  Call Number:  HC107 M7 M66 1988.

Chris B. Morgan.  Yalobusha Bound:  Yalobusha County, Mississippi in 1850.  Oklahoma Street Press.  Call Number:  F347 Y15 M6 2007 OVRS.

Christopher Morris.  Becoming Southern:  The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770-1860.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1995.  Call Number:  F347 W29 M67 1995.

Christopher Morris.  "Town and Country in the Old South:  Vicksburg and Warren County, Mississippi, 1770-1860."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Florida; 1991.  Call Number:  F349 V6 M67 1991a.

Pat Morrison.  A Hanging in Perry County:  The James Copeland Story:  His Life and Death.  1999.  Call Number:  F296 C67 M67 1999.

Henry Herbert Moss.  "Sectionalism in Mississippi, 1817-1832."  M.A. thesis; University of Mississippi; 1934.

James B. Murphy.  L.Q.C. Lamar:  Pragmatic Patriot.  Baton Rouge:  Louisiana State University Press, [1973].  Call Number:  E664 L2 M85.

Elizabeth Dunbar Murray.  Early Romances of Historic Natchez.  [Natchez, MS:  Natchez Printing & Stationery Co., 1938].  Call Number:  F349 N2 M9 1938a.

S.M. Nabors.  History of Old Tishomingo County [1832-1940].  1940.  Call Number:  F347 T5 N3. 

The Natchez Trace:  Cultural and Historical Impact.  [Mathiston, MS:  Wood Junior College, 1986].  Call Number:  F217 N37 N378 1986.

Tom J. Nettles.  The Patience of Providence:  A History of First Baptist Church Brandon, Mississippi, 1835-1985.  Brandon, MS:  1989.  Call Number:  BX6480 B69 N47.

New Albany, Mississippi, 1840-1990.  New Albany, MS:  Rutledge Printing, 1990.  Call Number:  F349 N47 N49 1990.

Charles E. Nolan.  St. Mary's of Natchez:  The History of a Southern Catholic Congregation, 1716-1988.  Natchez, MS:  St. Mary's Catholic Church, 1992.  Two volumes.  Call Number:  BX4603 N34 S25 1992.

Noxubee County Historical Society.  Noxubee County, Mississippi Marriages.  Macon, MS:  [197-].  1834-1904.  Two volumes.  Call Number:  CS68 M7 N82.

Bruce C. Oakley Jr.  A Postal History of Mississippi Stampless Period, 1799-1860.  Baldwyn, MS:  Magnolia Publishers, 1980.  Two volumes.  Call Number:  HE6376 A1 M7.

Samuel Beldon Olden Jr.  "A Study of the Accomodations for Overland Travelers in Mississippi during the Period 1830-1860."  M.A. thesis; University of Mississippi, 1941.

Nola Nance Oliver.  The Little Burr:  The Truth about the Life of Aaron Burr, with Stories of His Trial and Romance, in Natchez, Mississippi.  Natchez, MS:  Natchez Printing & Stationery Co., 1947.  Call Number:  E302.6 B9 O5.

One Hundred Fortieth Anniversary Celebration, October 16, 1983:  First Presbyterian Church, Water Valley, Mississippi.  [1983].  Call Number:  BX9211 W38 O54 1983.

One Hundred Years of Progress, 1854-1954:  Cato Baptist Church, Rankin County, Mississippi.  Rankin County, MS:  1954.  Call Number:  BX6480 C38 C385 1954.

One Hundred Years of the First Baptist Church, Kosciusko, Mississippi.  Centennial Celebration, 1848-1948.  Kosciusko, MS:  Star-Herald, 1948.  Call Number:  BX6480 K6 F5.

One Hundredth Anniversary of the Senatobia Presbyterian Church, Senatobia, Mississippi, 1848-1948.  Senatobia, MS:  [Tate County Democrat], 1948.  Call Number:  BX8947 M7 S4.

Our Story, 1836-1986:  First United Methodist Church, Louisville, Mississippi.  Louisville, MS:  1986.  Call Number:  BX8481 L68 O87 1986.

Ted Ownby.  American Dreams in Mississippi:  Consumers, Poverty & Culture, 1830-1998.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1999.  Call Number:  HC107 M73 C66 1999b.

Bobby Hugh Papasan.  "A History of Sixteenth Section "Lieu Lands" in the Chickasaw Territory of North Mississippi."  Ed.D. dissertation; University of Mississippi, 1982. 

James Woodrow Parkerson.  "Senator Henry Stuart Foote of Mississippi:  A Rhetorical Analysis of His Speeches in Behalf of the Unions, 1849-1852."  Thesis; Louisiana State University; 1971.  Call Number:  E415.7 F68 P3.

Mary F. Parmenter, et al.  The Life of George Fisher, 1795-1873, and the History of the Fisher Family in Mississippi.  Jacksonville, FL:  H. & W.B. Drew, 1959.  Call Number:  F341 F536.

Margaret Graton Peaster.  History of Tchula [Mississippi] 1830-1954...  Tchula Business & Professional Women's Club, [1954].  Call Number:  F349 T2 P45 1954.

Lillian A. Pereyra.  James Lusk Alcorn:  Persistant Whig.  [Baton Rouge]:  Louisiana State University Press, 1966.  Call Number:  F341 A36 P4.

J.B. Perry Jr. and Mrs. John Rundle.  History of Yalobusha Baptist Association from 1835 to 1920.  Grenada, MS:  Baptist Press, 1960.  Call Number:  BX6209 M7 Y3.

Sandra Perry.  In His Presence for over 150 Years:  First United Methodist Church Greenwood, Mississippi.  Greenwood, MS:  1996.  1836-1996.  Call Number:  BX8249 G7343 P47 1996.

Philadelphus Presbyterian Church.  The History of an Old Church and Her People, 1821-1950.  [1950].  Wayne County, Mississippi.  Call Number:  BX8947 M7 P3.

Gertrude Philippsborn.  The History of the Jewish Community of Vicksburg from 1820 to 1968.  Vicksburg, MS:  1969.  Call Number:  F349 V6 P3.

Adrienne Cole Philips.  "Responses in Mississippi to John Brown's Raid."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Mississippi; 1983.

Albert James Pickett.  History of Alabama and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi from the Earliest Period.  Charleston:  Walker and James, 1851.  Two volumes.  Call Number:  F326 P56.

Otis Westbrook Pickett.  "'Neither Slave nor Free...':  Interracial Ecclesiastical Interaction in Presbyterian Mission Churches from South Carolina to Mississippi, 1818-1877."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Mississippi; 2013.

James L. Pillar.  The Catholic Church in Mississippi, 1837-65.  New Orleans:  Hauser Press, [1964].  Call Number:  BX1415 M7 P5.

J.R.S. Pitts.  Life and Confession of the Noted Outlaw, James Copeland Executed at Augusta, Perry County, Mississippi.  Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 1980.  Originally published in 1909.  Call Number:  E415.9 C73 P5 1980.

J.R.S. Pitts.  Life and Confession of the Noted Outlaw, James Copeland Executed at Augusta, Perry County, Mississippi:  Leader of the Notorious Copeland and Wages Clan which Terrorized the Entire Southern States, as Related by Himself in Prison after He Was Condemned to Death, Giving a List of All Members of the Clan:  Mystic Alphabet of the Clan for Their Secret Correspondence, with an Appendix of Profound Research.  1909. Call Number:  E415.9 C73 P5.

Noel Polk, ed.  Natchez before 1830.  Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 1989.  Call Number:  F349 N2 N28 1989.

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

George Lewis Prentiss.  A Memoir of S.S. Prentiss.  New York:  Scribner, 1855.  Two volumes.  U.S. Representative from Mississippi 1838-1839.  Call Number:  E340 P9 P7 1879.

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.  Church Histories.  [1932-1968].  Includes Tupelo, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Red Banks, Oxford, Marks, Columbus histories of Mississippi churches.  Call Number:  BX8947 M7.

Alice Bell Prindiville.  Trinity Episcopal Church, Pass Christian, Mississippi, 1849-1974:  An Historical Record.  [1974].  Call Number:  BX5980 P37 T75.

Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society.  Oxford, MS:  1898-1914.  Special Collections has volumes 1 through 14.  Call Number:  F336 M75.

Howell Purdue.  Pat Cleburne, Confederate General.  Hillsboro, TX:  Hill Jr. College Press, 1973.  Call Number:  E467.1 C58 P87 1973.

Secondary Sources Related to Mississippi R-Z

Percy Lee Rainwater.  "An Analysis of the Secession Controversy in Mississippi, 1854-61."  Reprint from Mississippi Valley Historical Review Vol. 24, No. 1 (June 1937).  Call Number:  F341 R248.

Percy Lee Rainwater.  "An Economic Interpretation of Secession:  Opinions in Mississippi in the 1850's."  Reprint from Journal of Southern  History Vol. 1, No. 4 (November 1935).  Call Number:  F341 R25.

Percy Lee Rainwater.  "Letters to and from Jacob Thompson."  Reprint from Journal of Southern History Vol. 4, No. 1 (February 1940).  Call Number:  E664 T3 L3.

Percy Lee Rainwater.  Mississippi:  Storm Center of Secession, 1856-1861.  Baton Rouge:  O. Claiter, 1938.  Call Number:  F341 R26.

Jack Davison Ramsey.  "New County Representation in Mississippi from 1830 to 1840."  M.A. thesis; University of Mississippi; 1931.

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

Clayton Rand.  Men of Spine in Mississippi.  Gulfport, MS:  Dixie Press, 1940.  Biographies.  Call Number:  F340 R32.

Ruth Painter Randall.  I, Varina:  A Biography of the Girl Who Married Jefferson Davis and Became the First Lady of the South.  Boston:  Little, Brown, [1962].  Call Number:  E467.1 D27 R3.

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

Florence Rebecca Ray.  Chieftan Greenwood Leflore and the Choctaw Indians of the Mississippi Valley, Last Chief of Choctaws East of Mississippi River.  Memphis:  C.A. Davis Printing Company, 1936.  Call Number:  E90 L3 R22.

Forrest F. Reed.  Itawamba:  A History.  Nashville:  Reed and Co., 1966.  Itawamba County, Mississippi.  Call Number:  F347 I8 R4.

Forrest F. Reed.  A Reed Family in America, with Special Reference to the Family and Descendants of William Reed, 1818-1895, Whose Ancestral Home Was in Itawamba County, Mississippi.  Nashville:  Tennessee Book Co., 1962.  Call Number:  CS71 R324 1962.

James Register.  Jallon:  Arabic Prince of Old Natchez, 1788-1828.  Shreveport, LA:  Mid-South Press, 1968.  Arab prince named Abduhl Rahahman sold as a slave and transported to Natchez, Mississippi.  Call Number:  E444 A15 R4.

Resource Records of Pike/Walthall Counties, Mississippi, 1798-1910.  Easley, SC:  Southern  Historical Press, 1978.  Call Number:  F347 P6 C7 1978.

Marce Clinton Rhodes.  "History of Taxation in Mississippi:  1798-1929."  Ph.D. dissertation; George Peabody College for Teachers; 1930.  Call Number:  LB5 G4 no.79.

John A. Robertson and Tom W. Conger Jr.  Early History of the Town of Ruleville, Mississippi, in the Heart of the Mississippi Delta.  [Ruleville, MS:  1965].  Includes supplement "Lehrton, Mississippi 1850-1900."  Call Number:  F349 R8 R6.

Hugh Harris Robison.  Historical Sketch of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ebenezer, Tippah County, Mississippi, by a Pastor; Rev. H.H. Robison to Which Is Added Sketches of Pastor's Lives, by Rev. S.A. Agnew...And Others; and Subsequent History, by a Ruling Elder, H.B. Wiseman.  Call Number:  BX8999 A7 R6.

Bertie Shaw Rollins.  A Brief History of Aberdeen and Monroe County, Mississippi, 1821-1900.  [Aberdeen, MS:  1957].  Call Number:  F347 M67 R6.

Rosemont, Boyhood Home of Jefferson Davis.  Woodville, MS.  Call Number:  F347 W65 R7.

Ishbel Ross.  First Lady of the South.  New York:  Harper, [1958].  Varina Jefferson.  Call Number:  E467.1 D27 R6.

G.S. Roudebush.  An Address Delivered on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Organization of the Presbytery of Mississippi:  Held in Pine Ridge Church, October 11, 1916.  Jackson, MS:  Tucker Print. House, 1916.  Call Number:  BX8947 M7 R6.

Betty Ann Hellums Rowland, et al.  Tutor:  The Families of Pontotoc County, Mississippi, Emigrating from Cumberland County, North Carolina, 1848.  Iowa City, IA:  1980.  Call Number:  CS71 T88 1980.

Dunbar Rowland.  Courts, Judges, and Lawyers of Mississippi, 1798-1935.  Jackson, MS:  State Department of Archives and History, Mississippi Historical Society, 1935.  Call Number:  JK4681 R6.

Dunbar Rowland.  Encyclopedia of Mississippi:  Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons.  Madison, WI:  S.A. Brant, 1907.  Two volumes.  Call Number:  F339 R8.

Dunbar Rowland.  History of Mississippi, the Heart of the South.  Chicago:  S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1925.  Two volumes.  Call Number:  F341 R86.

Dunbar Rowland.  "Military History of Mississippi, 1803-1898."  Reprint from the Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi (1908).  Call Number:  F341 R867.

Dunbar Rowland.  Mississippi:  Comprising Sketches of Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form.  Atlanta:  Southern Historical Publishing Association, 1907.  Three volumes.  Call Number:  F339 R88.

Dunbar Rowland.  "Plantation Life in Mississippi before the War."  Reprint from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society Vol. 3.  Call Number:  F341 R873.

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

Eron Rowland.  History of Hinds County, Mississippi, 1821-1922.  Jackson, MS:  Jones Ptg. Co., [1922].  Call Number:  F347 H5 R6.

Eron Rowland.  Varina Howell, Wife of Jefferson Davis.  New York:  Macmillan Company, 1927.  Two volumes.  Call Number:  E467.1 D27 R8.

Thomas Buford Rowland.  "Legal Status of the Negro in Mississippi from 1832 to 1860."  M.A. thesis; University of Wisconsin; 1933.  Call Number:  E185.61 R89.

Sarah Spencer Roy.  Biography of Horatio Nelson Spencer:  Lawyer, Planter, Churchman, 1798-1876.  Auburn, AL:  Auburn Printing Co., [1975].  Port Gibson, Mississippi.  Call Number:  F341 S64 R6.

Rufus Frederick Learned.  New York:  James T. White & Co., 1926.  Mississippi lumberman (1834-1924).  Call Number:  F341 L4 L4.

Mattie Russell.  "Land Speculation in Tippah County, 1836-1861."  M.A. thesis; University of Mississippi; 1940.

J.S. Ryan.  History of Calhoun County, Mississippi.  Pittsboro:  Calhoun Monitor, 1904.  1852-1900.  Call Number:  F347 C2 R9.

Phyllis Moore Sanders.  "Jefferson Davis:  Reactionary Rebel, 1808-1861."  Thesis; University of California; 1976.  Call Number:  E467.1 D26 S29.

David G. Sansing.  Mississippi Governors:  Soldiers, Statesmen, Scholars, and Scoundrels:  A Bicentennial History.  Oxford, MS:  Nautilus Publishing Company, 2016.  Call Number:  F340 S267 2016.

Jimmy Ray Scafidel.  "Letters of Augustus Baldwin Longstreet."  Thesis; University of South Carolina; 1976.  Two volumes.  Chancellor of the University of Mississippi 1849-1856.Call Number:  F213 L85 A4.

Morris Schaff.  Jefferson Davis, His Life and Personality.  Boston:  J.W. Luce and Company, [1922].  Call Number:  E467.1 D26 S3.

The Sesquicentennial of Statehood:  Mississippi; an Exhibition in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., December 10, 1967 to October 31, 1968.  Washington, DC:  Library of Congress, 1967.  Call Number:  F338 S4 1967.

Joseph D. Shields.  The Life and Times of Seargent Smith Prentiss.  Philadelphia:  J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1884.  U.S. Representative from Mississippi 1838-1839.  Call Number:  E340 P9 S55.

T.C. Schilling.  Abstract History of the Mississippi Baptist Association for One Hundred Years:  From Its Preliminary Organization in 1806 to the Centennial Session in 1906.  New Orleans:  Press of J.G. Hauser, [1908].  Call Number:  BX6209 M56 S3.

Mildred M. Scott.  Arkabutla, Mississippi:  The Place and Its People:  DeSoto County, 1836-1872, Tate County 1872-1994.  Hernando, MS:  Genealogical Society of DeSoto County, 1994.  Call Number:  F349 A75 S36 1994.

Margaret Stovall Searcy.  The Hooker Family of Mississippi:  Descendants and Ancestors of Nathan Hooker, 1763-1825.  [Arlington, VA]:  1980.  Call Number:  CS71 H772 1980.

Nora Jeanne Shackleford.  "The Leflore Family and Choctaw Indian Removal."  M.A. thesis; Oklahoma State University; 1967.  Call Number:  E90 L3 S3.

William Allen Shelton.  The Young Jefferson Davis, 1808-1846.  New York:  Arno Press, 1982.  Call Number:  E467.1 D26 S54 1982.

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

Rankin Sherling.  "The Irish in Rural Mississippi:  A Sample of the 1850 Census."  M.A. thesis; University of Mississippi; 2005.

Joseph D. Shields.  Natchez:  Its Early History.  Louisville, KY:  J.P. Morton & Co., 1930.  Call Number:  F349 N2 C31.

Lucy Roy Sibley.  "A Historical Study of Clothing Practices on Some Mississippi Plantations, 1838-1861."  M.S. thesis; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1958.  Call Number:  GT607 S5.

Henry Upson Sims.  The Origin and Development of the Civilization of the Gulf States.  New Orleans:  Pelican Pub. Co., [1952].  Call Number:  F296 S58.

John Ray Skates.  A History of the Mississippi Supreme Court, 1817-1948.  Jackson, MS:  Mississippi Bar Foundation, 1973.  Call Number:  KFM7112 S43.

Allene De Shazo Smith.  Greenwood Leflore and the Choctaw Indians of the Mississippi Valley.  [Memphis:  C.A. Davis Printing Company, 1951].  Call Number:  E90 L3 S5.

Dale Edwyna Smith.  The Slaves of Liberty:  Freedom in Amite County, Mississippi, 1820-1868.  New York:  Garland Pub., 1999.  Call Number:  F347 A5 S64 1999.

Dale Edwyna Smith.  "The Slaves of Liberty:  Freedom in Amite County, Mississippi, 1820-1868."  Ph.D. dissertation; Harvard University; 1993.  Call Number:  F347 A5 S55 1993a.

Earl Jennings Smith.  "The Free, Foreign-Born Population of Mississippi in the 1850's."  Ph.D. dissertation; Vanderbilt University, 1974.  Call Number:  F350 A1 S53.

H.H. Smith.  Jefferson Davis:  A Character Sketch.  [Richmond, VA:  1926].  Call Number:  E467.1 D26 S6.

William Sheppard Smith.  Lauderdale County, Mississippi:  Four Families, 1835-1936:  McLaurin, Simmons, Stevenson, and Smith.  Jackson, MS:  [2002].  Call Number:  CS71 M1618 2002.

 Guy W. Spain.  The History of Osborne Creek Baptist Church, Prentiss County, Mississippi, 1850-2000.  [Booneville, MS:  2000].  Call Number:  BX6480 B66 S63 2000.

F.D. Srygley.  Seventy Years in Dixie:  Recollections, Sermons and Sayings of T.W. Caskey and Others.  Indianapolis:  Faith and Facts Press, [1891].  Mississippian Thomas W. Caskey (1816-1896).  Call Number:  F213 S77.

St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Woodville, Miss.:  October 4, 1823 -- October 4, 1923.  Woodville, MS:  Woodville Republican Print, 1923.  Call Number:  BX5980 W6 S7 1923.  Call Number:  BX5980 W6 S7 1923.

St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 1851-1976, Oxford, Mississippi.  [Oxford, MS:  1976].  Call Number:  BX5980 O94 S8 1976.

Annabel Wiseman Stephens.  History of the Associated Reformed Presbyterian Church of Hopewell, Union County, Mississippi.  Union County, MS:  [1952].  1851-1951.  Call Number:  BX8999 A8 S7.

Hubert D. Stephens.  Radio Address on L.Q.C. Lamar:  Remarks of Hon. Hubert D. Stephens of Mississippi.  [1930].  Call Number:  E664 L2 S74 1930.

Wendell Holmes Stephenson.  Isaac Franklin, Slave Trader and Planter of the Old South; with Plantation Records.  Louisiana State University Press, 1938.  Natchez, Mississippi.  Call Number:  F213 F73.

Wendell Holmes Stephenson.  "A Quarter Century of a Mississippi Plantation:  Eli J. Capell of 'Pleasant Hill.'"  Reprint from Mississippi Valley Historical Review Vol. 23, No. 2 (December 1936).  Amite County, Mississippi.  Call Number:  F347 A5 S8.

Rebecca Martin Stokes.  "History of Grenada (1830-1880)."  M.A. thesis; University of Mississippi; 1929.  Grenada, Mississippi. 

Alfred Holt Stone.  "The Early Slave Laws of Mississippi.  Being Some Brief Observations thereon, in a Paper Read before the Mississippi Historical Society, at a Meeting Held in the City of Natchez, April 20th-21st, 1899."  Reprint from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society (1899).  Call Number:  E445 M6 S8.

Ellen McKinstry Street.  Highlights in the History of First Baptist Church, Ripley, Mississippi, 1839-1968.  1968.  Call Number:  BX6480 R5 F5 1968.

Ben Strickland and Jean Strickland, comps.  Records of Jones County, Mississippi.  Moss Point, MS:  1981-1983.  1827-1841.  Call Number:  F347 J6 S84 v.2.

Hudson Strode.  Jefferson Davis:  American Patriot, 1808-1861.  New York:  Harcourt, Brace, 1955.  Call Number:  E467.1 D26 S76 1955.

Allene Sugg.  "The Senatorial Career of George Poindexter, 1830-1835."  M.A. thesis; University of Mississippi; 1950.

Cecil Lamar Sumners.  Chief Tishomingo:  A History of the Chickasaw Indians, and Some Historical Events of Their Era (1737-1839).  Iuka, MS:  [1974].  Call Number:  E99 C55 S85.

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

Mary Floyd Sumners.  "Tishomingo County, 1836-1860."  M.A. thesis; University of Mississippi; 1957.  Tishomingo County, Mississippi.

Mack Swearingen.  The Early Life of George Poindexter:  A Story of the First Southwest.  New Orleans:  Tulane University Press, 1934.  Call Number:  E340 P75 S8.

Charles S. Sydnor.  "The Biography of a Slave."  Reprint from South Atlantic Quarterly Vol. 36, No. 1 (January 1937).  Arab prince named Abduhl Rahahman sold as a slave and transported to Natchez, Mississippi.  Call Number:  E444 A15 S9 1937.

Charles S. Sydnor.  "A Description of Seargent S. Prentiss in 1838."  Reprint from Journal of Southern History Vol. 10, No. 4 (November 1944).  Call Number:  E340 P9 S9 1944.

Charles S. Sydnor.  "The Free Negro in Mississippi before the Civil War."  Reprint from American Historical Review Vol. 32, No. 4 (July 1927).  Call Number:  E185.93 M6 S9.

Charles S. Sydnor.  A Gentleman of the Old Natchez Region, Benjamin L.C. Wailes.  Durham, NC:  Duke University Press, 1938.  Call Number:  F341 W16.

Charles S. Sydnor.  "Historical Activities in Mississippi in the Nineteenth Century."  Reprint from Journal of Southern History Vol. 3, No. 2 (May 1937).  Call Number:  F341 S96.

Charles S. Sydnor.  "Pursuing Fugitive Slaves."  Reprint from South Atlantic Quarterly Vol. 28, No. 2 (April 1929).  Mississippi.  Call Number:  E450 S9.

Charles S. Sydnor.  Slavery in Mississippi.  New York:  D. Appleton-Century Company, [1933].  Call Number:  E445 M6 S92.

Allen Tate.  Jefferson Davis:  His Rise and Fall, a Biographical Narrative.  New York:  Minton, Balch, Kraus Reprint Co., 1929.  Call Number:  E467.1 D26 T21.

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

Lately Thomas.  Between Two Empires:  The Life Story of California's First Senator, William McKendree Gwin.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, 1969.  U.S. Representative from Mississippi (1841-1843).  Call Number:  E415.9 G93 T46 1969.

Julius Eric Thompson.  "Hiram R. Revels, 1827-1901:  A Biography."  Thesis; Princeton University; 1973.  Call Number:  E664 R4 T36.

Patrick H. Thompson.  The History of Negro Baptists in Mississippi.  Jackson, MS:  R.W. Bailey Print Co., 1898.  Two volumes.  Call Number:  BX6444 M7 T48 1898b.

Tishomingo County Historical and Genealogical Society.  Tishomingo County, Mississippi, 1836-1997:  History and Families.  Humboldt, TN:  Rose Pub. Co., 1997.  Call Number:  F347 T5 T5 1997.

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.

Susie Eager Trotter.  Trotter Genealogy, the Virginia-Tennessee-Mississippi Trotter Line, 1725-1948.  Louisville, KY:  Mayes Print. Co., [1948].  Call Number:  CS71 T7.

Richard Marlin Tutor.  "A History of Speech Education at Mississippi College, 1826-1950."  M.A. thesis; University of Mississippi; 1964.

United States.  Army.  Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 2nd (1846-1848).  Historical Sketches and Scenes of Camp Life of the Second Regiment Mississippi Volunteer Inf., Commanded by Colonel W.A. Montgomery.  Vicksburg, MS:  J.C. Coovert, 1898.  Mexican War.  Call Number:  UA284 2nd U55 1898.

United States.  Supreme Court.  In Memoriam.  Lucius Q.C. Lamar.  Washington, DC:  Government Printing Office, 1893.  Call Number:  KF8745 L33 S88.

University of Mississippi.  Bureau of Governmental Research.  Inaugural Addresses of the Governors of Mississippi.  University, MS:  1980-1981.  Volume 2 contains 1817-1890.  Call Number:  F341 I53.

Lucy Wade Varnado.  Osyka:  A Memorial History 1812-1978, Pike County, Mississippi.  McComb, MS:  Modern-Bonney Printing Co., 1979.  Call Number:  F349 O89 V3.

Jack Vaughn.  Hewers in the Wilderness:  A Chronicle of the Author's Pioneer Ancesters in Mississippi in the 1830's.  New York:  Exposition Press, 1958.  Call Number:  CS71 V38 1958.

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

Christopher Waldrep.  Roots of Disorder:  Race and Criminal Justice in the American South, 1817-80.  Urbana:  University of Illinois Press, 1998.  Warren County, Mississippi.  Call Number:  KFM7162 W35 1998.

Vernon Larry Walters.  "Migration into Mississippi:  1798-1837."  M.A. thesis; Mississippi State University; 1969.  Call Number:  F341 W34 1969 OVRS.

William T. Walthall.  The Life of Jefferson Davis.  Biloxi, MS:  Beauvoir Press, 1989.  Originally published in 1908.  Call Number:  E467.1 D26 W347 1989.

Augustus O. Walton.  A History of the Detection, Conviction, Life and Designs of John A. Murel, the Great Western Land Pirate; Together with His System of Villany, and Plan of Exciting a Negro Rebellion.  Also a Catalogue of the Names of Four Hundred and Fifty-Five of teh Mystic Clan Fellows and Followers, and a Statement of Their Efforts for the Destruction of Virgil A. Stewart, the Young Man Who Detected Him.  To Which Is Added a Biographical Sketch of V.A. Stewart.  Cincinnati.  Call Number:  F396 M976.

Frank Ledyard Walton.  Shubuta:  A Brief Story about Shubuta on the Banks of the Chickasawhay.  Shubuta, MS:  Shubuta Memorial Assn., [1947].  Call Number:  F349 S5 W3.

Troy B. Watkins.  "John A. Quitman:  Governor of Mississippi, 1850-1851."  M.A. thesis; University of Mississippi; 1948. 

Mike Wayne.  Death of an Overseer:  Reopening a Murder Investigation from the Plantation South.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2001.  Adams County, Mississippi in 1857.  Call Number:  HV6533 M7 W38 2001.

Herbert Weaver.  Mississippi Farmers, 1850-1860.  Gloucester, MA:  P. Smith, 1968.  Call Number:  HD1775 M7 W4 1945a.

Mary Warriner Weaver.  And Are We Yet Alive?:  The Story of the Beginning and Progress of the Methodist Church in Corinth, Mississippi, 1799-1953.  [Corinth, MS]:  1955.  Call Number:  BX7249 C67 W4 1955.

Robert Cicero Weems.  "The Bank of the Mississippi:  A Pioneer Bank of the Old Southwest, 1809-1844."  Ph.D. dissertation; Columbia University; 1952.  Call Number:  HG2611 W4 1952.

Samuel James Wells.  "Choctaw Mixed Bloods and the Advent of Removal."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Southern Mississippi; 1987.  Call Number:  E99 C8 W44 1987b.

Chris E. Wiggins.  A Tale of Two (Mississippi) Cities:  Pascagoula and Moss Point.  Pascagoula, MS:  Wiggins Communications Services, [2015].  Call Number:  F349 P3 W55 2015.

Chris E. Wiggins.  What You Always Wanted to Know about Ocean Springs and Gautier, But...  Pascagoula, MS:  Wiggins Communications Service, [2015].  Call Number:  F349 O23 W55 2015.

Frederick D. Williams.  "The Career of J.F.H. Claiborne, States' Rights Unionist."  Ph.D. dissertation; Indiana University; 1953.  Call Number:  F341 C58 W6.

Robert Webb Williams.  "The Mississippi Career of Thomas Affleck."  Ph.D. dissertation; Tulane University; 1954.  Call Number:  SB63 A3 W5.

Ruth White Williams.  On the Map 145 Years:  The History of West Point, Mississippi, 1846-1991.  [Hurst, TX]:  Curtis Media, 1996.  Call Number:  F349 W47 W55 1996 OVRS.

James Rudell Willis.  "The Spirit of the Times:  A Pontotoc, Mississippi Newspaper, 1841-1842."  M.A. thesis; University of Mississippi; 1974.

John Maxwell Wilson.  Monroe Presbyterian Church Sesquicentennial, 1823-1973, April 15, 1973 -- April 20, 1973.  Call Number:  BX8947 M7 M6.

Mamie F. Wilson.  Old Salem Academy and Its First Principal, 1845-1862.  1959.  Greene County, Mississippi.  Call Number:  F341 M6 W5.

Richard Bruce Winders.  "The Role of the Mississippi Volunteers in Northern Mexico:  1846-1848."  M.A. thesis; University of Texas at Arlington; 1990.  Call Number:  E409.5 M56 W55 1990b.

James E. Winston.  "The Annexation of Texas and the Mississippi Democrats."  Reprint from Southwestern Historical Quarterly Vol. 25, No. 1 (July 1921).  Call Number:  QB235 S3 1895.

James E. Winston.  "Mississippi and the Independence of Texas."  Reprint from Southwestern Historical Quarterly Vol. 21, No. 1 (July 1917).  Call Number:  F341 W5 M5.

Robert W. Winston.  High Stakes and Hair Trigger:  The Life of Jefferson Davis.  New York:  H. Holt and Company, [1930].  Call Number:  E467.1 D26 W78.

Robert Milton Winter.  Outposts of Zion:  A History of Mississippi Presbyterians in the Nineteenth Century.  Holly Springs, MS:  2014.  Call Number:  BX8947 M7 W56 2014.

Robert Milton Winter.  Shadow of a Mighty Rock:  A Social and Cultural History of Presybterianism in Marshall County, Mississippi.  Franklin, TN:  Providence House Publishers, 1997.  Beginning in 1836.  Call Number:  BX9211 H64 W5 1997.

Sherwood Willing Wise.  The Cathedral School of St. Andrew:  A Sesquicentennial History, 1839-1989.  Jackson, MS:  1989.  Jackson, Mississippi.  Call Number:  BX5004 W5 1989.

Tom Womack.  A History of the First Baptist Church of West Point, Mississippi, 1855-1985.  [West Point, MS]:  Sullivan's Print. Co., [1987].  Call Number:  BX6480 W434 W66 1987.

John A. Wyeth.  Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest.  New York:  Harper, 1908.  Call Number:  E467.1 F72 W9 1908.

Benjamin Ray Wynn.  "Politics and Pragmatism:  Unionism in Antebellum Mississippi, 1832-1860."  Ph.D. dissertation; University of Mississippi; 2000.

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

Mary Elizabeth Young.  "Redskins, Ruffleshirts and Rednecks:  Indian Allotments in Alabama and Mississippi, 1830-1860."  Ph.D. dissertation; Cornell University; 1955.  Call Number:  E98 L3 Y6.

Mary Elizabeth Young.  Redskins, Ruffleshirts and Rednecks:  Indian Allotments in Alabama and Mississippi, 1830-1860.  Norman:  University of Oklahoma Press, [1961].  Call Number:  E77 C5 v.61.