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Heritage of Mississippi Series Seeks Authors
| Location: | United States |
| Date Submitted: |
2007-04-03 |
| Announcement ID: |
156221 |
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The Mississippi Department of Archives and History and the
Mississippi Historical Society invite proposals for volumes in the
Heritage of Mississippi Series, a significant book series covering the history of Mississippi in fifteen volumes, to be completed in 2017 to commemorate the bicentennial of the entrance of Mississippi
into the Union. The volumes, published by the University Press of
Mississippi, are aimed at a broad audience of professional historians and educated lay readers. Proposals are invited for books on remaining topics in the series or related subjects:
Colonial Mississippi From Frontier to Secession: Mississippi, 1840–1861 From Bondage to Freedom: Slavery in Mississippi, 1719–1865
Reconstruction in Mississippi From Hope to Heartbreak: Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow The Struggle for Civil Rights
Mississippi’s Cultural Heritage: Literature Three volumes have been published: Art in Mississippi, 1720–1980, by Patti Carr Black
Religion in Mississippi, by Randy Sparks Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race: Mississippi after Reconstruction, 1877–1917, by Stephen Cresswell Scheduled for publication: From Poverty to Promise: Mississippi 1917–1945, by Chester Morgan Interested historians are invited to send a vita and prospectus for a volume in this series to John Marszalek, 108 Grand Ridge Road, Starkville, MS 39759. An honorarium of $10,000 is paid to authors for completed and accepted manuscripts. An initial payment of $2,500 will be made upon the execution of a contract. For further information, contact John Marszalek at 662-323-8068 or johnmarsz@yahoo.com or Christine Wilson, director, Public Information, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, at 601-576-6857 or pubinfo@mdah.state.ms.us.
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Christine Wilson
Mississippi Department of Archives and History
PO Box 571
Jackson, MS 39205-0571
Email: cwilson@mdah.state.ms.us
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