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Jesmyn Ward talked about her book, Men We Reaped, a memoir about growing up poor in Mississippi and the deaths of five men from her hometown that she was close to, including her younger brot…

Sen. Trent Lott talked about his memoir Herding Cats: A Life in Politics, published by Regan Books. The book discussed his career in politics and his role as a leader in the conservative mo…

From the Mississippi National Guard Armory in Oxford, Mississippi, author William Doyle discussed his book, An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi 1962, published by Dou…

Charles Cobb wrote On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail where he presented a history of the Civil Rights Movement. The book emphasized many of the historic sites o…

The C-SPAN BookTV Bus crew visited Square Books, a bookstore in downtown Oxford. Event date listed is not correct.

Don Doyle talked about Lafayette County, Mississippi. This county was the primary inspiration for author William Faulkner’s fictional Yoknapatawpha County. Mr. Doyle talked about four hundre…

Leon Litwack talked about his new book, Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow, published by Alfred A. Knopf. The book describes the life of black Americans in the segrega…

Mr. Marsh talked about his new book, God’s Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights. The book focuses on the religious motivations and arguments of leading figures in the civil rights …