Mississippi Women

MICHAEL B. BALLARD (1946–2016) was the university archivist at the Mitchell Memorial Library of Mississippi State University. His books include Landscapes of Battle: The Civil War; Pemberton: A Biography; A Mississippi Rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia: The Memoirs of Private David Holt; and Civil War Mississippi: A Guide. JOYCE LINDA BROUSSARD is a professor of U.S. southern and women’s history at California State University Northridge. She served as codirector of the Natchez Courthouse Records Project, which included among its activities the biennial Historic Natchez Conferences. Broussard has published in the field of gender and women’s history, including essays in support of an educator’s website for PBS documentaries dealing with slavery, the Supreme Court, and the history of Jim Crow and racism in America. KAREN L. COX is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Her books include Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture; Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South; and Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture. EMILYE CROSBY is a professor of history at the State University of New York at Geneseo. She is the author of A Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi. RANDY J. SPARKS is a professor of history at Tulane University. His books include The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey, Religion in Mississippi, and several coedited volumes on the history of the Atlantic World.

The well-written and accessible essays in this volume add depth and rich texture to our understanding of the lives of women in Mississippi.