This environmental history of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta places the Delta's economic and cultural history in an environmental context. It reveals the human asp

A haunting photo project and prose involving recording and preservation of Mississippi Delta landscapes features its rapidly disappearing indigenous structures:

Examining the lives of individuals - freedmen, planters, and merchants - Willis explores the reciprocal interests of former slaves and former slaveholders. He s

New photographs from the beloved creator of Delta Land

In Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South Jeannie Whayne employs the fascinating history of a powerful plantation owner