An Illustrated Guide to the Mississippi Governor's Mansion
Author: Helen Cain
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 76
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Author: Helen Cain
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ted Ownby
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2017-05-25
Total Pages: 2548
ISBN-13: 1496811577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecipient of the 2018 Special Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and Recipient of a 2018 Heritage Award for Education from the Mississippi Heritage Trust The perfect book for every Mississippian who cares about the state, this is a mammoth collaboration in which thirty subject editors suggested topics, over seven hundred scholars wrote entries, and countless individuals made suggestions. The volume will appeal to anyone who wants to know more about Mississippi and the people who call it home. The book will be especially helpful to students, teachers, and scholars researching, writing about, or otherwise discovering the state, past and present. The volume contains entries on every county, every governor, and numerous musicians, writers, artists, and activists. Each entry provides an authoritative but accessible introduction to the topic discussed. The Mississippi Encyclopedia also features long essays on agriculture, archaeology, the civil rights movement, the Civil War, drama, education, the environment, ethnicity, fiction, folklife, foodways, geography, industry and industrial workers, law, medicine, music, myths and representations, Native Americans, nonfiction, poetry, politics and government, the press, religion, social and economic history, sports, and visual art. It includes solid, clear information in a single volume, offering with clarity and scholarship a breadth of topics unavailable anywhere else. This book also includes many surprises readers can only find by browsing.
Author: Elise Varner Winter
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2015-05-01
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 1626746044
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOnce in a Lifetime reveals the broad range of Elise Varner Winter's activities as first lady of Mississippi during the term of her husband, Governor William F. Winter (1980–1984). Drawn from her personal journal, which she kept daily, this account includes the frustrating moments as well as the exhilarating ones, from keeping house to visiting the White House. The position of a state's first lady is one of the most public of roles. Yet few people know what a first lady actually does. In Elise Winter's memoir, her sense of history, her talent, and her perseverance to record her activities and observations provide a unique opportunity for the reader to understand what life in the Mississippi Governor's Mansion was really like on a daily basis. This book reveals her traditional roles—planner of elegant dinners, sophisticated hostess, hands-on gardener, and steward of the Mansion and its historic collection of antique furniture and decorative arts. But she emerged as a modern first lady, intensely interested in public education and in the state penitentiary, for which she developed several important initiatives. She recounts fascinating events from Governor Winter's administration, its tensions and its accomplishments, such as passage of the Education Reform Act, a success in which Elise Winter played an indispensable role. Many of the issues of thirty years ago remain critical today—insufficient funding for education, budget deficits, prison overcrowding, and the need for prison reform. Elise Winter observes everyone and everything with a fresh eye for detail and describes them all with honesty, clarity, and simplicity. Her observations reflect her intellect and insight, as well as her sense of humor. This is a woman's story, a human story, about hopes and doubts, about setting high standards and sometimes feeling inadequate, and about the imperative of continual efforts to make her state a better place for all who live there.
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Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
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Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781617034381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fifty-site tour through the Magnolia State's historic locales traces the region's history across several centuries and explores how each contributes a unique piece of the state's rich and multilayered story.
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 802
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Author: American Association for State and Local History
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 1366
ISBN-13: 9780759100022
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis multi-functional reference is a useful tool to find information about history-related organizations and programs and to contact those working in history across the country.
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 3246
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA world list of books in the English language.
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Publisher: National Register Publishing
Published: 1992-12
Total Pages: 1582
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 162
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Published: 1938
Total Pages: 575
ISBN-13: 1623760232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKcomp. and written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration.