Authors' suit charges racial bias in history book By CHAT BLAKEMAN Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer Tue, August 29, 1979 Is a ninth-grade cl...

Private schools take little interest in controversial text Clarion Ledger Thursday, January 22, 1981 By NELL LUTER - FOCUS Writer  Jackson...

Because of my varied (almost haphazard) range of interests, I often run into autodidactic people.  That's a fancy phrase we use to descr...

 Some of the best students of literature and history I ever met were electricians and plumbers in the daytime.  Some of the best carpenters ...

I’ve been delaying working on this for a few days.  Sometimes, what I have to say makes me uncomfortable. My father had eight children. Four...

For quite a while now, I’ve been collecting the urban legends that emanate from students and employees at the University of Mississippi Medi...

I’m working on a project.  I don’t know what to call it yet.  Part of it might be “Lies My Mother Never Told Me.”  For this project, I’ve ma...

 The genius of the Citizens Council, the thing that made them both the most effective and the most evil, was that they equated segregation w...

 In 1940, Governor Paul Johnson pushed for a change to the Mississippi code to allow for the state to pay for free textbooks for Mississippi...

People talk about Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” and how the South converted from Yellow-dog Democrats to the world’s most conservative Republi...

 In Lee: The Last Years, Flood quotes one of the "KA Five" as saying of Lee that "We likened him unto Agamemnon."  I alw...

Civil Rights, Culture Wars: The Fight over a Mississippi Textbook by Charles W. Eagles I've just been made aware of this book, but I...

 Feist-dog got me up at five a.m.  The sun's still not out.  My little round ball Alexa alarm doesn't go off until six, so I don...

 June is pride month.  I don't like the idea that we have to assign months where people can be proud of who they are.  That should be ev...