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'''Mississippi''' is a state in the southern United States.
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==Bibliography==
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=7974959 Krane, Dale and Stephen D. Shaffer. ''Mississippi Government & Politics: Modernizers versus Traditionalists'' (1992)]
=== History===
* Busbee, Westley F. ''Mississippi: A History'' (2005), good survey
* Gonzales, Edmond, ed. ''A Mississippi Reader: Selected Articles from the Journal of Mississippi History'' (1980)
* Loewen, James W. and Charles Sallis, eds. ''Mississippi: Conflict and Change'' (1974)
* McLemore, Richard, ed. ''A History of Mississippi'' 2 vols. (1973)
* Skates, John Ray. ''Mississippi: A Bicentennial History'' (1979)
* Swain, Martha H. ed. ''Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives'' (2003). 17 short biographies
 
====Specialized studies====
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=2993825 Ballard, Michael B. ''Civil War Mississippi: A Guide'' (2000)]
* Crespino, Joseph. ''In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution'' (Princeton University Press; 2007, 360 pages). Examines the conservative backlash among white Mississippians after the state's leaders strategically accommodated themselves to federal and civil-rights demands
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=80962695 Cresswell, Stephen. ''Multiparty Politics in Mississippi, 1877-1902'' (1995)]
*  Dittmer, John. ''Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi'' (1994)
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=9021413 Garner, James Wilford. ''Reconstruction in Mississippi'' (1901)] reflects [[Dunning School]]
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=61592900 Harris, William C. ''The Day of the Carpetbagger: Republican Reconstruction in Mississippi'' (1979)]
* Key, V.O. ''Southern Politics in State and Nation'' (1949), has famous chapter on Mississippi, pp 229-53.
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=10553634 Kirwan, Albert D. ''Revolt of the Rednecks: Mississippi Politics: 1876-1925'' (1965)]
* Lesseig, Corey T. “ ‘Out of the Mud’: The Good Roads Crusade and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Mississippi.” Journal of Mississippi History 60 (Spring 1998): 51–72. (not online)
* McLemore, Nannie Pitts. "James K. Vardaman, a Mississippi Progressive," ''Journal of Mississippi History'' 29 (1967): 1-11
* McMillen, Neil R. ''Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow'' (1989)
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=103663188 Olsen, Christopher J. ''Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi: Masculinity, Honor, and the Antiparty Tradition, 1830-1860'' (2000)]  
* Osborn,  George Coleman. ''James Kimble Vardaman: Southern Commoner'' (1981).
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=52694010 Peirce, Neal R. ''The Deep South States of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Seven Deep South States'' (1974)] see chapter 4 on Mississippi in 1970s
* Ownby, Ted. ''American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty & Culture, 1830-1998 (1998) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=101542898 online edition]
* Silver, James W. ''Mississippi: The Closed Society'' (1963)
* Smith,  Lewis H. and Robert S. Herren, "Mississippi" in Richard P. Nathan, Fred C. Doolittle, eds. ''Reagan and the States'' (1987), pp. 208-30.
* Sydnor, Charles S. ''Slavery in Mississippi.'' (1933).
* Wayne, Michael. ''The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860–1880'' (1983)
* [http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/pub/NatchezPeople.pdf White, Douglas R., George P. Murdock, Richard Scaglion. Natchez Class and Rank Reconsidered. ''Ethnology'' 10:369- 388. {1971}] study of the kingdom of the Natchez people before the French-Indian wars of the 1720s.
===Local and regional histories===
*  Bolton, Charles C. ''Poor Whites of the Antebellum South: Tenants and Laborers in Central North Carolina and Northeast Mississippi'' (1994)
*  Cobb, James C. ''The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity'' (1992)
*  Dollard, John. ''Caste and Class in a Southern Town'' (1957) sociological case study of race and class in 1930s
* James, Dorris Clayton. ''Ante-Bellum Natchez' (1968)
* Morris, Christopher. ''Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770–1860'' (1995)
* Nelson, Lawrence J. "Welfare Capitalism on a Mississippi Plantation in the Great Depression." ''Journal of Southern History'' 50 (May 1984): 225–50. online at JSTOR
*  Owens, Harry P. ''Steamboats and the Cotton Economy: River Trade in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta'' (1990).
* Polk, Noel. ''Natchez before 1830'' (1989)
* Willis, John C. ''Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta After the Civil War'' (2000)
 
===Primary sources===
* Abbott, Dorothy. ed. ''Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and Youth''. Vol. 2: Nonfiction, (1986).
* Bond, Bradley G. ed. ''Mississippi: A Documentary History'' (2003)
* Moody, Anne. ''Coming of Age in Mississippi''. (1968) memoir of Black girlhood
*  Rosengarten, Theodore. ''All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw''  (1974) memoir of a Black Mississippian
 
==References==
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