Images of America: Mississippi in the Great Depression reveals the politics, the economy, the places, and the people persevering the nation's most trying econom

This collection of more than 600 oral histories recalls the Great Depression and provides a rich personal chronicle of the 1930s. The Depression altered the bas

Collects photographs of Mississippians that Welty took in the 1930s when she worked for the Works Progress Administration.

A study of the inability of the churches to deal with the crisis of the Great Depression and the shift from church-based aid to a federal welfare state.

In the early days of 1937, the Ohio River, swollen by heavy winter rains, began rising. And rising. And rising. By the time the waters crested, the Ohio and Mis