Speakers Bureau Categories

Speakers Bureau Speakers

• Bill J. Abel, The Delta Blues Today
• Mike Allard, The Clinton Prisoner of War Camp
• Ted Ammon, Should I really ask, “What can I do for my country?”
• Brian Anderson, Dual Defection: Liberating Party Factions in America
• Brian Anderson, Understanding Osama bin Laden
• William P Arinder, The Early Pioneer Settlers 1790 to 1840
• William P Arinder, Prehistoric Native American Stone Tools
• William P Arinder, Music of the War Between the States 1861 to 1865
• Lawrence T Avalon, History of Mississippi Old Time Fiddling & String Bands
• Clinton I Bagley, Talks and Tours Along the Mississippi
• Michael B Ballard, The Civil War: The Vicksburg Campaign, the Battle of Franklin, TN, and Other Mississippi Battles
• Faye Barham, I Don’t B’lieve I’d'a Told That
• Jim Barnett, Mississippi’s American Indians
• Jim Barnett, The Removal of the Natchez Indians
• Scott M Barretta, White Blues and African American Stringbands: Mississippi’s Creolized Musical Traditions
• Rita Beane, Orthodox Churches of Belarus, Russia & Ukraine
• Bill Beane, St Catherine Creek National Wildlife Refuge
• Unita Blackwell, Barefootin’ toward Freedom and a Life Fulfilled: Living It and Telling It, in black and white
• Thomas N Boschert, The Memphis Commerial Appeal’s “Plant to Prosper” Program for Small Farmers, 1934-1965
• Thomas N Boschert, Recollections of World War II in a Small Town in the Mississippi Delta
• Robert L Boyd, Business Enterprise or Public Service? Alternative Paths to Economic Development for African America
• Michael A Boyd, A History of the Guitar in Spain, and Cultural Development Through the Twentieth-Century.
• Jim Brewer, Mississippi: Birthplace of America’s Music
• Samuel O. Brookes, The Mississippi River 8500 BC-AD 1541: A Boundary Not a Barrier
• Samuel O. Brookes, Mississippi 6500 - 3000 B.C.: Global Warming in the Magnolia State
• Robert N. Brown, Reclaiming the Delta: African American Return Migration to the Mississippi Delta
• Luther Brown, The River: An Icon for the History and Culture of the Mississippi Delta
• Luther Brown, Representing Place: How Sublime Blues Captures the Poetry and Place of the Mississippi Delta
• Samuel Bruton, Loyalty and Some Recent Corporate Scandals
• Minor F Buchanan, Holt Collier, His Life, His Roosevelt Hunts, and the Origin of the Teddy Bear
• Duane J. Bullard, They Gave Their Lives: Experiences of 53 WWII Veterans 60 Years After the War
• Harold C Burkett, Mississippi Territorial, Natchez, Washington and Jefferson College Histories
• Edwina H Carpenter, The Battle of Brice’s Crossroads and General Nathan Bedford Forrest
• Barbara Carpenter, Paul RevereÕs Teapot; or, How the Arts and Humanities Give Your World and Your Life Meaning
• Barbara Carpenter, Kiss Me, I’m Italian—and Irish, Chinese, African, FrenchÉand So Are You: Ethnic Heritage in Missis
• Larry W Chappell, Death and Politics
• Mark E Clark, Tennessee Williams and Classical Antiquity
• Mark E Clark, The Last Conflict Between the Roman Pagans and Christians
• Wilma E Clopton, Highlighting the Legacy: African Americans in Mississippi
• Thomas D Cockrell, Unionism in Mississippi: Not of One Voice and One Mind in the Civil War
• Mary D Coleman, How Philosophy Informs Our Current Citizenship Challenges
• Gordon A Cotton, Vicksburg and the War
• Gordon A Cotton, Sacred Harp Singing
• David Crosby, Mixed Messages: Rabbit Foot Minstrels’ Long History and Ambiguous Legacy
• Carol P Daily, Trends in Cooking: From Peanut Butter Sandwiches to Sushi
• Carol P Daily, One Big TableÉBeyond the Drive Through
• Robert S Davis, Publishing Your Family History
• Mccray L Davis, Evolution of the Blues in the Mississippi Delta
• Barbara Dease, What Price Assimilation for African Americans and other Black Peoples?
• Ralph H Didlake, Food from a Bioethics Perspective
• Donald Dyer, Soviet Language Policy and Ethnic Unrest in the Former USSR
• John T Edge, Southern Foodways: Eating Your Way to an Understanding
• Jack D Elliott, History, Heritage, and Culture: What Do They Mean to Us?
• Geneva England, Three North Mississippi Mystery Writers: John Grisham, Donna Tartt, and John Armistead
• Joe Fant, Faulkner at West Point: The Untold Story
• Beverly Fatherree, Flannery O’Connor: In Her Own Words
• Martha Foose, Southern Women in the Kitchen
• John R Ford, Re-Discovering Shakespeare’s Theatre
• Beth K Freshour, Geneaology for Beginning Researchers
• Wendy Garrison, Robert Johnson at the Crossroads
• Jeanne L Gillespie, The Islenos: 205 Years of Hispanic Heritage Along the Gulf Coast
• Jeanne L Gillespie, Ancient Mesoamerica: Myths, Legends, and Folklore
• William R Glass, Historians and Film: Using Movies as Cultural Documents
• Chris Goertzen, Roots Music of Mississippi
• Matthew R Hale, 1776 to 9/11/01: American Nationalism in a World of Uncertainty
• Clark Hale, Southern Barbeque: America’s Oldest Art Form
• Andrew P Haley, The Mississippi Melting Pot
• Andrew P Haley, History of American Restaurant Culture
• Therese Hanna, From Field to Fitness: Aligning Farm Policy with Health Policy to Improve Nutrition and Health
• Alferdteen Harrison, Let’s Talk About Preserving African American Historic Sites
• Patricia D Holifield, The Free State of Jones: The Legends, The Literature, and The Legacy
• David M Holley, Happiness and the Self-Centered Life
• David M Holley, Can You Get Away with Murder?
• David M Holley, Life-Orienting Stories and Belief in God
• Ellistine Holly, An American Parable: The Black Swan and the Swedish Nightingale
• Mark H Howell, African-American Instrument Adoption and Adaptation: Evidence from Music Archaeology and Ethnomusico
• Grady Howell, “Chimneyville,” The Destruction of Jackson, MS during the Civil War, Fact or Myth!
• Grady Howell, The Battle of Shiloh
• Grady Howell, We Gather Together: Thanksgiving Day in Mississippi
• Grady Howell, D-Day Mississippi: The Battle of Port Gibson May 1, 1863
• Rebecca M Jernigan, Mississippi Telling
• Rebecca Jernigan, Robert Johnson at the Crossroads
• Emory D John, Spoken Word- Communicating Art
• Jeanne S Kelly, Lost on Both Sides: Conflicts in Selected Poems of Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti
• Larry Konecky, An Introduction to Chinese Opera
• Mark LaFrancis, In Their Boots: Poetry Inspired by Soldiers and Their Loved Ones
• Mark LaFrancis, The ABCs of Making a Documentary Film: From Concept to Creation
• William F Lawhead, The Long and Steamy Affair Between the Sciences and the Humanities
• Kathryn Lewis, The Telling Trees: A Place Called Home
• Michael T Longton, Spectacular Barcelona, Spain: Where the Past and Present Join
• Lil Lovette, Merle Haggard: Philosopher of the Working Man
• Charles Lowery, Language Without Inhibition: Hyperbole, Fantasy, and Tall Talk on the Mississippi Frontier, 1790-184
• Betty Magee, Unity in Spain: The Reign of Queen Isabel I and King Ferdinando I
• William H Mattison, The Legacy of a Union Soldier Buried in a Rural Cemetery in North Mississippi
• Katheryn B McKee, Race and Humor in Sherwood Bonner’s Short Fiction
• Joan M McLemore, Stories About the South
• Mary Carol Miller, Forts and Fields, Mansions and Meadows: Mississippi History Between the Fences
• Mary Carol Miller, Lost Mississippi
• David Miller, Ellis Marsalis: Jazz is Spoken Here
• Michael O Minor, Healthy Congregations: Faith-Based Health and Wellness Mobilization
• Dennis Mitchell, Mississippi and World War II
• Dennis Mitchell, Mississippi Studies: Teaching Mississippi
• Pamela Monaco, Independence and the Baltics; Or, Can We Really Refer to the Baltic States?
• Pamela Monaco, What’s Playing on America’s Stages?
• Pamela Monaco, Mysteries of Faith
• Elizabeth M Montgomery, Flannery O’Connor: A Roman Catholic Author in the Protestant South
• Chester Morgan, Too Small to be a Nation, Too Big to be an Insane Asylum: Mississippi in the Twentieth Century
• David Morgan, Rogers and Rodgers: Distant Father, Native Son
• Larry J. Morrisey, Folk and Traditional Crafts Today in Mississippi
• Larry J. Morrisey, Mississippi Traditional Music Today: A Survey of the Musicians Currently Living & Performing in the
• Gary P Nash, Music of the Philippines, Academia and Beyond
• Allan Nation, History of Foods in Southeast Mississippi
• Myron C Noonkester, “Middle Ground”: Mississippi’s Identity Identified
• Deanne S Nuwer, The Importance of Wearing Shoes: Hookworm Disease in Mississippi
• Deanne Nuwer, Nursing Care in the 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic
• Betty S O'Brian, From Bubba to Buddha: Finding the Hero Within
• Sylvester Oliver, The African-American Music Traditions of Northeast Mississippi
• Henry E Outlaw, Loss of Innocence: To Kill a Mockingbird and the Emmett Till Case
• Ted Ownby, Shopping in Mississippi History
• Melvin S Parker, The Camel Boy, A Novel about the Civil War
• Evan Peacock, Archaeology at Lyon’s Bluff, a Prehistoric Village in Oktibbeha County
• Patricia Pinson, Visual Harmony- The Music in Walter Anderson’s Paintings
• Patricia Pinson, Walter Anderson- Sojourner
• Ernest Pinson, The Poetry, Prose, and Art of Walter Anderson
• Noel Polk, Faulkner and Welty and Mississippi
• Richelle Putnam, Personal Experience Writing
• Anna J. Quinn, Mississippi Writers: Alive and Well
• Stuart Rockoff, Good Will in Action: Mississippi Jews on the World War II Home Front
• Stuart Rockoff, The History of Jews in Mississippi
• William C Rogers, So Close and Yet So Far: Race Relations in Mississippi
• William C Rogers, John C. Stennis: Legacy of a Legend in Mississippi Politics
• Felder Rushing, Gardening Southern Style
• Felder Rushing, Over and Under the Fence: Plant Swapping Helped Form Our Culture
• Elizabeth Sarcone, The World of King Arthur
• Elizabeth Sarcone, Myths and Fairy Tales: Not Just for Children
• Thomas E Simmons, 1) World War II - It had to be won no matter the cost. 2) World War I - the terrible cost and the re
• John L Smith, Living in Mississippi
• Donna Speed, Fruit and VeggiesÑMore Matters
• Seetha A Srinivasan, Fault Lines: Living in Two Cultures
• Robert St. John, The History, Traditions, Eccentricities, and Absurdities of Southern Food
• Kathy Starr, The Soul of Southern Cooking I & II Miz Bob’s Second Batch Cooking from a Mississippi Slave Girl’s T
• Martha Swain, Mississippi Women and the New Deal
• Martha Swain, Packmules, Flatboats, Bookmobiles, and Shoeleather: WPA Librarians in the 1930s
• Martha Swain, The Political and Social Context of the Bugalow Home, 1890-1990
• Courtney Taylor, My Love Affair with the Sweet Potato
• Annette Trefzer, An Aesthetics of Creolization: The New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians
• C. Sade Turnipseed, Ida B. Wells: The Mother of the American Human Rights Movement
• Thomas G Velek, History Behind the Headlines
• Thomas G Velek, Does the Holocaust Still Matter
• Thomas G Velek, The Value of a Liberal Arts Education
• Ovid S Vickers, Fencing In and Fencing Out: The Role of Fences in American Literature, Folklore and History
• Carol F Vickers, The Ethnic and Cultural Backgrounds of Mississippi as Reflected in the State’s Quilting Traditions
• Durr Walker, TheThe Notorious Walkers of the 17th Century
• Durr Walker, The Brit Within Us
• Eric T Weber, Ethics and Leadership
• Eric T Weber, Can Leadership be Taught?
• Eric T Weber, Leadership in Education: A Talk for Teachers and Administrators
• Anne W Webster, People, Not Property: Tracing Your African American Roots
• Charles Weeks, How Spanish is Mississippi?: Mississippi and the Spanish Borderland
• Charles Weeks, Knowing Spanish Mississippi: Challenges and Opportunities
• Charles Weeks, A Spanish Governor and a Choctaw Chief: Gayoso and Franchimastabe
• Elizabeth Wells, Recording & Writing Your Family Geneaology
• Carol C West, Women’s Civil War Diaries
• Malcolm White, How Tamales Came to Mississippi
• Malcolm White, Comeback Dressing, A Jackson, Mississippi Phenomenon: How Comeback Came to Mississippi
• Malcolm White, How the Gourmet Replaced Grandmaw: Dining Out in Mississippi vs. Eat at Home
• Jack H White, Using Medieval Feasting Customs to Link the Past and Present
• Jack H White, Place of Peace: Shelby Foote’s Shiloh
• Jack H White, The Three Worlds of Marc Connelly
• Jack H White, Chaucer’s Carpenters: Lost Reflections
• Jack H White, Helen Hunt Jackson’s Adamic Allessandro, A Native American Folk Hero
• Emilie C White, Henry Emil Hoffmeister, Pioneer Photographer
• Emilie C White, The Mayhew Mission, Mississippi
• Diane Williams, Southern Women of Character: The Life & Music of Mahalia Jackson Cathay Williams, Female Buffalo Sol
• Diane Williams, Parallels of Southern Storytelling and Folktales from Around the World
• Brinda F Willis, How to Teach Blues in the Schools
• Brinda F Willis, From The Fields To The Factory: The Great Migration of African Americans from the Fields of Mississi
• Brinda F Willis, Travel in America
• Brinda F Willis, Why We Call It Soul Food
• Bill A Wilson, Beware of Portrait Painting: It Can Make You Color Blind
• Bill A Wilson, Me Talk Purty: A Redneck’s Journey From String Art to Fine Portraits