Encyclopedia Of Mississippi Law
Jen Ronnfeldt
The Mississippi Encyclopedia, a project that began at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture in 2003, was published in print in 2017 and made available online in 2018. The reference book was published by the University Press of Mississippi and later made available online, with support from the Mississippi Humanities Council, at www.mississippiencyclopedia.org.
The Mississippi Encyclopedia includes solid, clear information contained in a single volume/website, offering with clarity and scholarship a breadth of topics unavailable anywhere else, with entries on every county, every governor, and numerous musicians, writers, artists, and activists. It is the first encyclopedic treatment of the state since 1907.
The Mississippi Encyclopedia appeals to anyone who wants to know more about the state. It has proven to be especially helpful to students, teachers, and scholars researching, writing about, or otherwise discovering the state, past and present.
Each entry in The Mississippi Encyclopedia provides an authoritative but accessible introduction to the topic discussed. It also features long essays on agriculture, archaeology, architecture, the civil rights movement, the Civil War, contemporary issues, drama, education, the environment, ethnicity, fiction, folklife, foodways, gender, geography, industry and industrial workers, law, science and medicine, music, myths and representations, American Indians, nonfiction, poetry, politics and government, the press, religion, social and economic history, sports, and visual art.
The encyclopedia will be especially helpful to students, teachers and scholars researching, writing about or otherwise discovering the state, past and present, he said. It includes solid, clear information in a single volume, offering with clarity and scholarship a breadth of topics unavailable anywhere else.
Each entry in The Mississippi Encyclopedia provides an authoritative but accessible introduction to the topic discussed. It also features long essays on agriculture, archaeology, the civil rights movement, the Civil War, contemporary issues, drama, education, the environment, ethnicity, fiction, folklife, foodways, geography, industry and industrial workers, law, medicine, music, myths and representations, Native Americans, nonfiction, poetry, politics and government, the press, religion, social and economic history, sports and visual art.
A celebration reception is set for 6 p.m. June 13 at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and a kickoff event is slated for Aug. 17 at the Mississippi Book Festival in Jackson, as well as visits to independent bookstores and cultural organizations across the state.
To familiarize yourself with key concepts related to Agricultural History, check out reference materials such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, and subject bibliographies. This will help orient you and narrow the scope of your research.
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While the text version of the encyclopedia was released in May 2017, the new online version was designed to be a more accessible way for people to learn valuable information, according to James G. Thomas, who contributed to the book and helped adapt the text for the internet.
Each entry in the Mississippi Encyclopedia is designed to provide an authoritative but accessible introduction. It also features long essays on agriculture, archaeology, the civil rights movement, the Civil War, contemporary issues, drama, education, the environment, ethnicity, fiction, folklife, foodways, gender, geography and more.
The print version of the Mississippi Encyclopedia won a special achievement award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and awards of merit from the Mississippi Historical Society and the Mississippi Heritage Trust. Ownby said he hopes the website will follow suit in the future, and more importantly, will bring Mississippi history to the masses.
Encyclopedias and and other reference works provide background information and can be used to identify key people, events and dates which can then be used as search terms for finding additional information. In addition most encyclopedia articles include short bibliographies that will lead you to the major works on the topic. If you use such a work to help get yourself started, I recommend you check more than one. You should never cite an encyclopedia as one of your required sources.
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