Paul Hardin Kapp
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781628461381
- eISBN:
- 9781626740754
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781628461381.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
The Architecture of William Nichols: Building the South in North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi is the first comprehensive biography and monograph of a significant, yet overlooked, architect in ...
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The Architecture of William Nichols: Building the South in North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi is the first comprehensive biography and monograph of a significant, yet overlooked, architect in the American South. William Nichols designed three major university campuses: the University of North Carolina, the University of Alabama, and the University of Mississippi. He also designed the first state capitols of North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi. Nichols’s architecture profoundly influenced the built of landscape of the South but due fire, neglect, and demolition, most of his work was lost and his legacy was forgotten. Paul Hardin Kapp copiously researched through archives in North Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi and produced a narrative of the life and times of William Nichols. This latest book on Nichols’s life and career as an architect is over eighty-six thousand words in length and is richly illustrated with over two hundred archival photographs, drawings from the Historic American Building Survey, current photographs and sketches of architectural details by the author. It is an important and timely contribution to the architecture history of the American South.Less
The Architecture of William Nichols: Building the South in North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi is the first comprehensive biography and monograph of a significant, yet overlooked, architect in the American South. William Nichols designed three major university campuses: the University of North Carolina, the University of Alabama, and the University of Mississippi. He also designed the first state capitols of North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi. Nichols’s architecture profoundly influenced the built of landscape of the South but due fire, neglect, and demolition, most of his work was lost and his legacy was forgotten. Paul Hardin Kapp copiously researched through archives in North Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi and produced a narrative of the life and times of William Nichols. This latest book on Nichols’s life and career as an architect is over eighty-six thousand words in length and is richly illustrated with over two hundred archival photographs, drawings from the Historic American Building Survey, current photographs and sketches of architectural details by the author. It is an important and timely contribution to the architecture history of the American South.
Michael J. Goleman
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496812049
- eISBN:
- 9781496812087
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496812049.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: Civil War
Your Heritage Will Still Remain details how Mississippians constructed their social identity in the aftermath of the crises that transformed the state beginning with the sectional conflict, Civil ...
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Your Heritage Will Still Remain details how Mississippians constructed their social identity in the aftermath of the crises that transformed the state beginning with the sectional conflict, Civil War, and Reconstruction, and finally ending in the late nineteenth century. The social identity studied in this book focuses primarily on how Mississippians thought of their place within a national context, whether as Americans, Confederates, or both. During the period in question, radical transformations within the state forced Mississippians to embrace, deny, or rethink their standing within the Union. Tracing the evolution of Mississippians’ social identity from 1850 through the end of the decade uncovers why white Mississippians felt the need to create the Lost Cause legend and shaped the way they constructed it. At the same time, black Mississippians tried to etch their place within the Union and as part of American society, yet continually faced white supremacist backlash. Your Heritage Will Still Remain offers insights into the creation of Mississippi’s Lost Cause and black social identity and how those cultural hallmarks continue to impact the state into the twenty-first century.Less
Your Heritage Will Still Remain details how Mississippians constructed their social identity in the aftermath of the crises that transformed the state beginning with the sectional conflict, Civil War, and Reconstruction, and finally ending in the late nineteenth century. The social identity studied in this book focuses primarily on how Mississippians thought of their place within a national context, whether as Americans, Confederates, or both. During the period in question, radical transformations within the state forced Mississippians to embrace, deny, or rethink their standing within the Union. Tracing the evolution of Mississippians’ social identity from 1850 through the end of the decade uncovers why white Mississippians felt the need to create the Lost Cause legend and shaped the way they constructed it. At the same time, black Mississippians tried to etch their place within the Union and as part of American society, yet continually faced white supremacist backlash. Your Heritage Will Still Remain offers insights into the creation of Mississippi’s Lost Cause and black social identity and how those cultural hallmarks continue to impact the state into the twenty-first century.
Charles W. Eagles
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781469631158
- eISBN:
- 9781469631172
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469631158.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
The Mississippi History Project started in 1970 and received funding from the Southern Education Foundation. The Project sought to create a distinctively new type of history textbook that included ...
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The Mississippi History Project started in 1970 and received funding from the Southern Education Foundation. The Project sought to create a distinctively new type of history textbook that included the silent, the unnamed, and the dispossessed and that reflected modern historical scholarship. It wanted to correct the racial bias that dominate other textbooks. The radical book also featured original design and format features.Less
The Mississippi History Project started in 1970 and received funding from the Southern Education Foundation. The Project sought to create a distinctively new type of history textbook that included the silent, the unnamed, and the dispossessed and that reflected modern historical scholarship. It wanted to correct the racial bias that dominate other textbooks. The radical book also featured original design and format features.
Charles C. Bolton
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617037870
- eISBN:
- 9781621039488
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617037870.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter describes Winter’s appointment as state tax collector in 1956; his appointment to the Board of Trustees of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History in April 1957; Winter’s work ...
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This chapter describes Winter’s appointment as state tax collector in 1956; his appointment to the Board of Trustees of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History in April 1957; Winter’s work with white leaders to check the extremism of the White Citizens’ Council crowd; his participation in the Kennedy-Johnson campaign; the decision of moderate economic, community, and political leaders to speak out for a more reasonable approach to solving the race issue.Less
This chapter describes Winter’s appointment as state tax collector in 1956; his appointment to the Board of Trustees of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History in April 1957; Winter’s work with white leaders to check the extremism of the White Citizens’ Council crowd; his participation in the Kennedy-Johnson campaign; the decision of moderate economic, community, and political leaders to speak out for a more reasonable approach to solving the race issue.
Julia Eichelberger
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496814531
- eISBN:
- 9781496814579
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496814531.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
With much of Welty’s correspondence now available, we can use Welty’s remarkable letters in our classrooms as introductions to Welty’s fiction and as literary gems in their own right. Drawing from ...
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With much of Welty’s correspondence now available, we can use Welty’s remarkable letters in our classrooms as introductions to Welty’s fiction and as literary gems in their own right. Drawing from several recent collections and other publications that quote Welty’s correspondence, instructors may provide letters for students to explore alongside Welty’s fiction. Welty’s letters document her daily life and artistic development, often in language matching the playfulness, lyricism, and wit of Welty’s other published work. Students glimpse Welty’s mind at work, growing more accustomed to poetic qualities of her fiction. This activity suits survey courses with a short time to study Welty as well as upper-level courses. Letters also offer a wide range of research opportunities for students and scholars, from tracking down historical references in letters to reading and transcribing the many still-unpublished letters by Welty in the Eudora Welty Collection of the Mississippi Department of Archives & History.Less
With much of Welty’s correspondence now available, we can use Welty’s remarkable letters in our classrooms as introductions to Welty’s fiction and as literary gems in their own right. Drawing from several recent collections and other publications that quote Welty’s correspondence, instructors may provide letters for students to explore alongside Welty’s fiction. Welty’s letters document her daily life and artistic development, often in language matching the playfulness, lyricism, and wit of Welty’s other published work. Students glimpse Welty’s mind at work, growing more accustomed to poetic qualities of her fiction. This activity suits survey courses with a short time to study Welty as well as upper-level courses. Letters also offer a wide range of research opportunities for students and scholars, from tracking down historical references in letters to reading and transcribing the many still-unpublished letters by Welty in the Eudora Welty Collection of the Mississippi Department of Archives & History.
