ART

Cuestra Benberry, A Piece of My Soul:  Quilts by Black Arkansans (U of Arkansas).

Patti Carr Black, Art in Mississippi, 1720-1980 (UP of Mississippi in association with the Mississippi Historical Society and the Mississippi Dept. of Archives and History).

Lisa L. Cook, Consecrated Ground: Funerary Art of New Orleans (Pixieco).

The Marble City: A Photographic Tour of Knoxville's Graveyards, text by Jack Neely, photographs by Aaron Jay (U of Tennessee).

Christopher Maurer, Dreaming in Clay on the Coast of Mississippi: Love and Art at Shearwater (Doubleday).

HISTORY

Morris S. Arnold, The Rumble of a Distant Drum:  The Quapaws and Old World Newcomers, 1673-1804 (U of Arkansas).

Anne J. Bailey and Daniel E. Sutherland, eds., Civil War Arkansas:  Beyond Battles and Leaders (U of Arkansas).

Margaret Anne Barnes, The Tragedy and Triumph of Phenix City, Alabama (Mercer U).

Philip D. Beidler, First Books:  The Printed Word and Cultural Formation in Early Alabama (U of Alabama).

Margaret Jones Bolsterli, Born in the Delta:  Reflections on the Making of a Southern White Sensibility (U of Arkansas).

Edwin L. Brown and Colin J. Davis, eds., It Is Union and Liberty:  Alabama Coal Miners and the UMW (U of Alabama).

William H. Cobb, Radical Education in the Rural South:  Commonwealth College, 1922-1940 (Wayne State U).

Donald E. Collins, When the Church Bell Rang Racist:  The Methodist Church and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama (Mercer U).

E. Merton Coulter, William G. Brownlow:  Fighting Parson of the Southern Highlands (U of Tennessee).

Mary Ellen Curtin, Black Prisoners and Their World, Alabama, 1865-1900 (U of Virginia).

W. Calvin Dickinson and Eloise R. Hitchcock, eds., A Bibliography of Tennessee History, 1973-1996 (U of Tennessee).

Gilbert C. Din, Spaniards, Planters, and Slaves:  The Spanish Regulation of Slavery in Louisiana, 1763-1803 (Texas A&M).

Charles W. Eagles, Outside Agitator:  Joe Daniels and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama (U of Alabama).

Sam Davis Elliott, Soldier of Tennessee:  General Alexander P. Stewart and the Civil War in the West (LSU).

Glenn Feldman, Politics, Society, and the Klan in Alabama, 1915-1949 (U of Alabama).

Lynne B. Feldman, A Sense of Place:  Birmingham’s Black Middle-Class Community, 1890-1930 (U of Alabama).

J. Wayne Flynt, Alabama Baptists:  Southern Baptists in the Hear of Dixie (U of Alabama).

Elna C. Green, “National Trends, Regional Differences, Local Circumstances:  Social Welfare in New Orleans, 1870s-1920s,” in Before the New Deal:  Social Welfare in the South, 1830-1930 (U of Georgia).

W. Todd Groce, Mountain Rebels:  East Tennessee Confederates and the Civil War, 1860-1870 (U of Tennessee).

Donald H. Grubbs, Cry from the Cotton:  The Southern Tenant Farmer's Union and the New Deal (U of Arkansas). 

Martin J. Hardeman, Structure and Time:  Pike County, Mississippi, 1815-1912 (Peter Lang).

Mary S. Hoffschwelle, Rebuilding the Rural Southern Community:  Reformers, Schools, and Homes in Tennessee, 1900-1930 (U of Tennessee).

Thomas N. Ingersoll, Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans:  The First Slave Society in the Deep South, 1718-1819 (U of Tennessee).

Elizabeth Jacoway and C. Fred Williams, eds., Understanding the Little Rock Crisis:  An Exercise in Remembrance and Reconciliation (U of Arkansas).

M. Jane Johansson, Widows by the Thousand:  The Civil War Correspondence of Theophilus and Harriet Perry, 1862-1864 (U of Arkansas).

Ben F. Johnson III, Arkansas in Modern America, 1930-1990 (U of Arkansas).

May Jordan, Where the Wild Animals is Plentiful:  Diary of an Alabama Fur Trader’s Daughter, 1912-1914, edited by Elisa Moore Baldwin (U of Alabama).

Sybil Kein, ed., Creole:  The History and Legacy of Louisiana’s Free People of Color (LSU).

Betje Black Klier, Pavie in the Borderlands:  The Journey of Théodore Pavie to Louisiana and Texas, 1829-1830, Including Portions of His Souvenirs atlantiques (LSU).

Bobby L. Lovett, The African-American History of Nashville, Tennessee, 1780-1930 (U of Arkansas).

Andrew M. Manis, A Fire You Can’t Put Out:  The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham’s Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth (U of Alabama).

Charles Marsh, God's Long Summer:  Stories of Faith and Civil Rights (Princeton U).

Donald P. McNeilly, The Old South Frontier:  Cotton Plantations and the Formation of Arkansas Society,  1819-1861 (U of Arkansas).

Clarence L. Mohr and Joseph E. Gordon, Tulane:  The Emergence of a Modern University, 1945-1980 (LSU).

Lawrence J. Nelson, Oscar G. Johnston and the New Deal (U of Tennessee).

Wesley Phillips Newton, Montgomery in the Good War:  Portrait of a Southern City, 1939-1946 (U of Alabama)

Stephen J. Ochs, A Black Patriot and a White Priest:  Captain André Cailloux and Father Claude Paschal Maistre in Civil War New Orleans (LSU).

Christopher J. Olsen, Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi:  Masculinity, Honor, and the Antiparty Tradition, 1830-1860 (Oxford U).

Ted Ownby, American Dreams in Mississippi:  Consumers, Poverty, and Culture, 1830-1998 (U of North Carolina).

Daniel S. Pierce, The Great Smokies:  From Natural Habitat to National Park (U of Tennessee).

Lawrence N. Powell, Troubled Memory:  Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke’s Louisiana (U of North Carolina).

John B. Rehder, Delta Sugar:  Louisiana’s Vanishing Plantation Landscape (Johns Hopkins U).

Robert V. Remini, The Battle of New Orleans:  Andrew Jackson and America’s First Military Victory (Viking).

William Warren Rogers, Jr., Confederate Home Front:  Montgomery during the Civil War (U of Alabama).

Beth Roy, Bitters in the Honey:  Tales of Hope and Disappointment across Divides of Race and Time (U of Arkansas).  [on the Little Rock Central High crisis]

Jerry Purvis Sanson, Louisiana During World War II:  Politics and Society, 1939-1945 (LSU).

Karin A. Shapiro, A New South Rebellion:  The Battle Against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871-1896 (U of North Carolina).

Robert G. Spinney, World War II in Nashville:  Transformation of the Homefront (U of Tennessee).

Orville W. Taylor, Negro Slavery in Arkansas (U of Arkansas).

William Banks Taylor, Down on Parchman Farm:  The Great Prison in the Mississippi Delta (Ohio State U).

Tuskegee’s Truths:  Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (U of North Carolina).

James H. Tuten, “Regulating the Poor in Alabama:  The Jefferson County Poor Farm, 1885-1945,” in Before the New Deal:  Social Welfare in the South, 1830-1930 (U of Georgia).

Gilles Vandal, Rethinking Southern Violence:  Homicide in Post-Civil War Louisiana, 1866-1884 (Ohio State U).

Bobby M. Wilson, America’s Johannesburg:  Industrialization and Racial Transformation in Birmingham (Rowman & Littlefield).

Bobby M. Wilson, Race and Place in Birmingham:  The Civil Rights and Neighborhood Movements (Rowman & Littlefield).

Lynette Boney Wrenn, Crisis and Commission Government in Memphis:  Elite Rule in a Gilded Age City (U of Tennessee).

Sharon D. Wright, Race, Power, and Political Emergence in Memphis (Garland).

LITERATURE

Scott Ely, The Angel of the Garden:  Stories (U of Missouri).

Eduoard Glissant, Faulkner, Mississippi (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux).

Lawrence Howe, Mark Twain and the Novel:  The Double Cross of Authority (Cambridge U).

Elmo Howell, Mississippi Back Roads:  Notes on Literature and History (Langford & Assoc.).

Kevin Railey, Natural Aristocracy:  History, Ideology, and the Production of William Faulkner (U of Alabama).

Marie Rudisill, The Southern Haunting of Truman Capote (Cumberland House).

MUSIC

Robert Cochran, Singing in Zion:  Music and Song in the Life of an Arkansas Family (U of Arkansas).

David Dalton, Been Here and Gone:  A Memoir of the Blues (William Morrow).

Sebastian Danchin, Blues Boy:  The Life and Music of B. B. King (UP of Mississippi).

Horace Logan, Elvis, Hank, and Me:  Making Musical History on the Louisiana Hayride (St. Martin's).

Tony Russell, The Blues:  From Mississippi to the Millennium (Carlton).

Elijah Wald, River of Song:  A Musical Journey Down the Mississippi (St. Martin's).

Gayle Wardlaw, Chasin' That Devil Music:  Searching for the Blues (Miller Freeman).

Clyde Adrian Woods, Development Arrested:  The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta (Verso).

Richard Younger, Get a Shot of Rhythm and Blues:  The Arthur Alexander Story (U of Alabama).

Peter Coats Zimmerman, Tennessee Music:  It's People and Places (Miller Freeman).

RELIGION

Nancy Britton, Two Centuries of Methodism in Arkansas, 1800-2000 (August House).

Donald E. Collins, When the Church Bell Rang Racist:  The Methodist Church and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama (Mercer U).

E. Merton Coulter, William G. Brownlow:  Fighting Parson of the Southern Highlands (U of Tennessee).

J. Wayne Flynt, Alabama Baptists:  Southern Baptists in the Heart of Dixie (U of Alabama).

William Hicks, History of Louisiana Negro Baptists and Early American Beginnings from 1804-1914 (Center for Louisiana Studies, USL).

Charles Marsh, God's Long Summer:  Stories of Faith and Civil Rights (Princeton U).

Michael V. Namorato, The Catholic Church in Mississippi, 1911-1984:  A History (Greenwood).

Stephen J. Ochs, A Black Patriot and a White Priest:  Captain Andre Cailloux and Father Claude Paschal Maistre in Civil War New Orleans (LSU).

CD-ROM DATABASES

Carl A. Brasseaux, France’s Forgotten Legion:  Service Records of French Military and Administrative Personnel Stationed in the Mississippi Valley and Gulf Coast Region, 1699-1769:  A CD-ROM Publication (LSU).