Description: An A-to-Z compendium of people, places, and events in Mississippi from prehistoric times to today
Brief description: Ted Ownby is William F. Winter Professor of History and professor of southern studies at the University of Mississippi. He is editor of The Role of Ideas in the Civil Rights South, Manners and Southern History, The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi, and Black and White: Cultural Interaction in the Antebellum South and coeditor of Clothing and Fashion in Southern History, The Mississippi Encyclopedia, and Southern Religion, Southern Culture: Essays Honoring Charles Reagan Wilson, all published by University Press of Mississippi.
Review Quotes: At 1,451 pages and nearly 9 pounds, The Mississippi Encyclopedia is something to behold.--M. Scott Morris "Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal"