Dr. James P. Smith Collection

Collection

Identifier: M605

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The collection contains testimonies, articles, press releases, and documents on various aspects of Mississippi during the Hurricane Katrina disaster and the years of struggle for recovery on the Mississippi gulf coast. These materials were compiled by University of Southern Mississippi History Professor, James "Pat" Smith, in creating his book Hurricane Katrina: the Mississippi Story.

Dates

2004-2012

Creator

Smith, James "Pat" Patterson, Dr., Professor Emeritus of History (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Noncirculating; available for research.

Conditions Governing Use

This collection may be protected from unauthorized copying by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code).

Biographical / Historical

James Patterson Smith is a Professor Emeritus of history at The University of Southern Mississippi, where he coordinated the history program at Gulf Park. He is the author of Hurricane Katrina – The Mississippi Story. This book is an account of Hurricane Katrina’s impact on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Dr. Smith's publications include Civic Virtue: Cato's Letters, the Founding Fathers, and the New Mississippi (1992) and articles in The Journal of Canadian Studies and the Journal of Negro History. With Dr. Gilbert Mason, he published Beaches, Blood, and Ballotts: A Black Doctor's Civil Rights Struggle (2000), the first monograph to make extensive use of the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission records. He received the Carter G. Woodson Prize for an article about race and political reform in the British West Indies. He served on the Board of Directors for the Mississippi Humanities Council and coordinated the history program at Gulf Park.

Extent

4.5 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

The materials in the collection were organized by subject, grouping items by organization when possible: testimonies, DVDs, etc.

Provenance

Given By: James P. Smith on November 10, 2014.

Related Materials

Hurricane Katrina: the Mississippi story by James Patterson Smith. Jackson, Miss. : University Press of Mississippi, c2012. HV636 2005.M7 S65 2012 (Gulf Coast and McCain Libraries)

Retrenchment, reform and empire: Lord Kimberly and the Liberal imperial delimma, 1868-1874 by James Patterson Smith, 1984. Gulf Coast Library, Faculty Publications DA18 .S65 1984

An oral history with James Petterson Smith, 2009 February 19. McCain Library, Mississippiana F341.5 .M57 vol. 1045

M506 Gene Taylor Papers

Subjects

Barbour, Haley, 63rd Governor of Mississippi, 1947-
Bay Saint Louis (Miss.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Beauvoir (Biloxi, Miss.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Biloxi (Miss.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Crime -- Mississippi. Subject Source: Local sources
D'Iberville (Miss.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
DVDs. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
DeLisle (Harrison County, Miss.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Faith. Subject Source: Local sources
Gautier (Miss.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Gulf Coast (Miss.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Gulfport (Miss.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Hancock County (Miss.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Harrison County (Miss.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Hattiesburg (Miss.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Hurricane Katrina, 2005. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Hurricanes. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Jackson County (Miss.). Subject Source: Local sources
Long Beach (Miss.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
New Orleans (La.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Ocean Springs (Miss.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Pascagoula (Miss.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Pass Christian (Miss.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Personal narratives. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Politicians -- Mississippi. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Press releases. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Records (Documents). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Sun herald (Biloxi, Miss.)
Taylor, Gary Eugene "Gene", Member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Mississippi State Senator, 1953-
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA
University of Southern Mississippi -- Faculty. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
University of Southern Mississippi -- Gulf Park. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
University of Southern Mississippi. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
WLOX-TV (Television station : Biloxi, Miss.)
Waveland (Miss.). Subject Source: Local sources
Witnesses. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings