A New History of Mississippi

Acknowledgments

xi Acknowledgments Jim Barnett and Evan Peacock were kind enough to read and offer suggestions for improvements to chapter 1.Lamar Neal and Steven Slimp read most of the manuscript, providing numerous suggestions and improvements. Janet St Lawrence read each chapter as it rolled out of the printer and pronounced it interesting reading,encouraging me to forge ahead.As a massive consumer of fiction and a psychologist who possess no tolerance for the dull or pedestrian, she is skeptical of historians, and provided the sounding board for the general public toward whom this book is aimed.She also made innumerable useful suggestions to better the narrative. Melanie Thomas, the librarian at Mississippi State University (MSU)–Meridian helped me to secure materials and read the manuscript too. The librarians in the interlibrary loan department at Mitchell Library in Starkville worked hard securing , handling, and shipping books. The librarians at Meridian Community College’s L. O. Todd (where MSU-Meridian houses its collection) provided assistance and tolerated my demands with great patience.Stephen Cresswell reviewed the manuscript for the University Press of Mississippi and helped greatly with a detailed markup of the manuscript, providing help with revisions .Student workers Shamika Burrage,Alli French,Katie Gough,Miranda Harrison, Sidney McDonald, Tiffany Moss, and Crystel Dorsey helped with the bibliography and a host of other chores. My assistant, Renee Gough, maintained the master copy, made many edits, and read the drafts. Over the years students here and at Jackson State University helped me clarify my understanding of the state’s past with questions and discussion, which informed this narrative. Readers will recognize this book’s debt to a host of authors whose works I plundered to write this narrative. I appreciate the scholars and writers who created the record and told the stories that I used for this book. This page intentionally left blank 45.178.240] Project MUSE (2024-04-26 05:31 GMT) A New History of Mississippi This page intentionally left blank ...