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Dr. William K. Scarborough is the author of several publications. These include The Overseer: Plantation Management in the Old South, The Diary of Edmund Ruffin, Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth Century South, and The Allston’s of Chicora Wood: Wealth, Honor, and Gentility in the South Carolina Low Country.

Materials Description This collection contains materials relating to Kenneth B. Shearer's service to The University of Southern Mississippi, from his work with Southern Miss Golden Eagle Athletics to his induction to the Southern Miss Alumni Hall of Fame. Also included are programs and other publications representing his love for sports. Kenneth B. Shearer worked in the insurace industry for many years and wrote an unpublished history on the insurance industry in Mississippi. As such, this collection also...

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This collection is comprised of materials that document various aspects of Ronnie Shows' service as a United States Congressman from Mississippi's Fourth District (1998-2002). This collection should be of interest to anyone researching government at the national level.

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Personal diaries of Elisabeth Speer, family Christmas letters, and scrapbook of newspaper clippings concerning Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi.

Scope and Contents This collection consists primarily of materials that document Polly Stout's career at the University of Southern Mississippi and her involvement in activities relating to the City of Hattiesburg. Included are brochures, newspaper clippings, photographs, and information regarding several organizations. There is a speech by Dr. Aubrey K. Lucas, and correspondence concerning the promotional publication, Discover Southern, as well as Alma Hickman's book, ...

Scope and Contents This collection focuses primarily on Dr. Wilbur White Stout's interest in Native Americans and the theater, but also contains academic, historical, and personal information. While there are several items in the collection dated in the late eighteenth, and early nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the bulk of materials are confined to the period 1945-1965. The collection features a topical arrangement, and has been divided into six major series.Series I: General Information...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of 21 love letters written by W.O. Greenough of Escatawpa and sent to Urcell Mach at the Teacher's College, now The University of Mississippi, in Hattiesburg between 1929-1932. They provide an insight into the social life of the area during the Depression. Also included is an issue of Student Printz, Volume IV, Number 22, March 13, 1931 and a small recipe book published by the chocolate company, Walter Baker & Co,...

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The Tatum family were prominent owners of businesses and land in and around the Hattiesburg, Mississippi area beginning in 1893 with the establishment of their first lumber mill. The collection contains financial records, personal papers, photographs, blueprints, newspaper articles, maps and artifacts of the Tatum family’s business dealings as well as local Hattiesburg history, including W. S. F. Tatum’s mayoral term from 1922 to 1924 and again from 1928 to 1936.

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Correspondence, laboratory notes, research notes, reports, newsletters, business records, photographs, and journal articles.

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A collection of materials relating to the life and work of B. O. Van Hook, former math instructor and golf coach at The University of Southern Mississippi.

Form of Material Velma Lou Lewis White was the founding President of Mississippi Southern College’s Biological Society in 1950. She mailed the following items:1. Booklet “The Beta Beta Beta National Honorary Biological Fraternity”2. Newspaper clipping with title “MSC Biological Society Organized” 1/20/503. Chapter By-Laws approved 1/23/504. Officer list dated 1/16/505. Honorary member list6. Letter from Edwin M. Fuchs concerning...

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Publications produced by Dr. Leon Wilber.

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The William Arthur Winstead Papers include scrapbooks, newspaper reports, proposed legislation, and other miscellaneous records concerning Rep. William Arthur Winstead, who served in the United States’ House of Representatives from 1943-1965. This collection would be of particular interest to researchers studying twentieth-century political history, Mississippi politicians, University of Southern Mississippi alumnae, and the Civil Rights Movement.

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This collection contains correspondence, research materials, drafts, and lectures by the author or editor of a dozen books about Southern literature.