This list of secondary sources cataloged in the Archives & Special Collections focuses primarily on Mississippi (and to a lesser extent on the South). Topics include ports, harbors, boats, and waterways.
Ivan Amato. Pushing the Horizon: Seventy-Five Years of High Stakes Science and Technology at the Naval Research Laboratory. [Washington, DC]: Government Printing Office, [1998]. One laboratory located in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Call Number: V394 N577 A46 1998.
Milton P. Barschdort. A History of an Inland River Port. [Greenville, MS]: E. and M. Barschdorf, 1997. Greenville, Mississippi harbor. Call Number: F349 G8 B37 1997.
Hewitt Clarke. He Saw the Elephant: Confederate naval Saga of Lt. Charles "Savvy" Read, CSN. Spring, TX: Lone Star Press, 2000. Call Number: E467.1 R27 C53 2000.
Jane Curry. The River's in My Blood: Riverboat Pilots Tell Their Stories. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983. Call Number: HE629 C87 1983.
Jack Custer. The Steamer Sprague: This Is the Story of Big Mama, the Largest Steam Towboat the World Has Known. She Now Belongs to Vicksburg, Miss. [196-]. Call Number: VM461.5 S66 C87.
Dale Flesher and Jalal Soroosh. Riverboat Stewardship Accounting: The Betsy Ann. Reprint from Journal of Mississippi History (February 1987). Call Number: HE605 F54 1987.
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.
Val Husley. Maritime Biloxi. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2000. Call Number: F349 B5 H87 2000.
Ingalls Shipbuilding. Ingalls, a Salute to American Spirit, 1938-1988. [Pascagoula, MS: Ingalls Shipbuilding, 1988]. Call Number: VM301 I5 I48 1988.
Bern Keating. The Legend of the Delta Queen. New Orleans, LA: Delta Queen Steamboat Co., 1986. Call Number: VM461.5 D4 K43 1986.
William B. Lee. A Heavy Harvest: German Submarine Operations in the Gulf of Mexico during World War II. Ridgeland, MS: Alvely Press, 1994. Call Number: D781 L431 1994.
Gilbert M. Mellin. "The Mississippi Shipping Company: A Case Study in the Development of the Gulf Coast-South American and West African Shipping, 1919-1953." Thesis; University of Pittsburg; 1955. Call Number: HE753 M4 1978.
Dave Page. Ships Versus Shore: Civil War Engagements along Southern Shores and Rivers. Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press, 1994. Call Number: E591 P25 1994.
John E. Rodabough. Steamboats on the Upper Tombigbee. Hamilton, MS: Tombigbee Press, 1985. Call Number: HE630 T6 R6 1985.
William N. Still. Confederate Shipbuilding. University of Georgia Press, [1969]. Call Number: VM23.5 S75.
James Herbert Stone. Cotton Gin Port, Mississippi: The History of a Tombigbee Rivertown. University of Mississippi, 1969. Call Number: F349 C72 S8.
U.S.S. Mississippi War Record, 1941-1945. [Baltimore: Thomsen-Ellis-Hutton Co., 1947). Call Number: D774 M7 U5.