Histories

Meet the characters who created what James C. Cobb called "the most southern place on earth."

From the director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, William Ferris has written a book that is rich in conversation, reference, history and firsthand experience with...

A new history of the blues, from its beginnings in the Mississippi Delta to its global impact on today's music.  Gioia creates...

The Storied South features the voices--by turn searching and honest, coy and scathing--of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thinkers in the American cultural firmament.