Table of Contents

UNIT I      A SENSE OF PLACE
Chapter 1 Mississippi's Natural Environment: Climate and Water Resources
Chapter 2 Mississippi's Natural Environment: Landforms and Biota

UNIT II     EARLY BEGINNINGS
Chapter 3 The Road to Statehood
Chapter 4 Politics, Slavery, and Antebellum Society

UNIT III    MISSISSIPPI IN TRANSITION
Chapter 5 Secession and Civil War
Chapter 6 Reconstruction and Transition
Chapter 7 The Dawn of the Twentieth Century

UNIT IV   THE AMERICANIZATION OF MISSISSIPPI
Chapter 8 Mississippi Between the Wars
Chapter 9 Mississippi in the Postwar Period

UNIT V      CONTEMPORARY MISSISSIPPI: THE HUMAN ENVIRONMENT OF PLACE
Chapter 10 Population and Urban Growth
Chapter 11 Economic Activities and the Environment

UNIT VI     MISSISSIPPI ARTS AND LETTERS
Chapter 12 Mississippi's Literary Heritage
Chapter 13 Mississippi's Music, Crafts, and Visual Arts

UNIT VII    CITIZENS AND GOVERNMENT
Chapter 14 Federal and State Government
Chapter 15 Local Government
Chapter 16 Citizenship

Appendix I MISSISSIPPI VITAL STATISTICS
Appendix II MISSISSIPPI STATE SYMBOLS
Appendix III MISSISSIPPI COUNTIES
Appendix IV MISSISSIPPI GOVERNORS
Appendix V MISSISSIPPI COLLEGES and UNIVERSITIES

AN ATLAS of MISSISSIPPI

GLOSSARY
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS