Todd A. Herring Collection (Mississippi State University. Libraries)

Overview

Works:	227 works in 230 publications in 2 languages and 10,605 library holdings
Genres:	Biographies Autobiographies History Sources Academic theses Juvenile works Census data Handbooks and manuals Illustrated works Pictorial works
Classifications:	PS3545.R815, B

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works by Todd A. Herring Collection (Mississippi State University. Libraries)

Black boy : a record of childhood and youth by Richard Wright( Book )

2 editions published in 1945 in English and held by 1,145 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The author relates his life as an African American growing up in the South during the Jim Crow years

Blues all around me : the autobiography of B.B. King by B. B King( Book )

1 edition published in 1996 in English and held by 1,003 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Riley B. King grew up amidst the cotton farms of Mississippi, picking in the fields. At age 21 he wrecked a tractor and took it as a sign that a brighter future awaited him as a musician in Memphis. The rest is history. Recounting his days as a disk jockey and pioneering bluesman on the rhythm and blues circuit, B.B. dramatizes his whirlwind adventures, from the Memphis of the forties to the Moscow of the nineties, in a voice that is both raw and real. A deeply sensuous and sensitive soul, he discloses his complex relationship to women and sexuality, and chronicles his first-hand experience with racism, the Civil Rights movement, and the shifting politics of show business

Black power : a record of reactions in a land of pathos by Richard Wright( Book )

1 edition published in 1954 in English and held by 787 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A chronicle of the African American author's trip to Africa's Gold Coast before it became the free nation of Ghana. It speaks eloquently of empowerment and responsibility, and remains a key commentary on the question of race

Men like that : a southern queer history by John Howard( Book )

1 edition published in 1999 in English and held by 632 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"As Howard recounts the life stories of the ordinary and the famous, often in their own words, he also locates the material traces of queer sexuality in the landscape: from the farmhouse to the church social, from sports facilities to roadside rest areas."--Jacket

The Bible and archaeology by J. A Thompson( Book )

1 edition published in 1962 in English and held by 575 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Contains the material which formerly appeared in the three smaller Pathway Books: Archaeology and the Old Testament ... Archaeology and the pre-Christian centuries ... and Archaeology and the New Testament

Lost prince : the unsolved mystery of Kaspar Hauser by Anselm Feuerbach( Book )

1 edition published in 1996 in English and held by 568 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Kasper Hauser turned up in Nuremberg in 1828 when he was sixteen, after being kept in a dungeon most of his life. Hauser, barely able to talk or walk, was taken in by Feuerbach. Masson looks at who Hauser was and what his case tells us about abused children

Benjamin Harrison, 1833-1901 : chronology, documents, bibliographical aids by Harry Joseph Sievers( Book )

1 edition published in 1969 in English and held by 556 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The origins of prohibition by John A Krout( Book )

1 edition published in 1925 in English and held by 273 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A political text-book for 1860 : comprising a brief view of presidential nominations and elections, including all the national platforms ever yet adopted, also, a history of the struggle respecting slavery in the territories, and of the action of Congress as to the freedom of the public lands, with the most notable speeches and letters of Messrs. Lincoln, Douglas, Bell, Cass, Seward, Everett, Breckinridge, H.V. Johnson, etc., etc., touching the questions of the day, and returns of all presidential elections since 1836 by Horace Greeley( Book )

1 edition published in 1860 in English and held by 269 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Fighting the traffic in young girls, or, War on the white slave trade : a complete and detailed account of the shameless traffic in young girls ... by Ernest A Bell( Book )

2 editions published in 1910 in English and held by 178 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Three years in North America by James Stuart( Book )

1 edition published in 1833 in English and held by 178 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The British transatlantic slave trade( Book )

1 edition published in 2003 in English and held by 162 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The life and times of Col. Daniel Boone, hunter, soldier, and pioneer : with sketches of Simon Kenton, Lewis Wetzel, and other leaders in the settlement of the West by Edward Sylvester Ellis( Book )

1 edition published in 1884 in English and held by 158 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This book contains a biography of American pioneer and trailblazer Daniel Boone. The author also includes brief biographies of several other important figures in America's first westward expansion

The sunny South; or, The southerner at home, embracing five years' experience of a northern governess in the land of the sugar and the cotton by J. H Ingraham( Book )

1 edition published in 1860 in English and held by 151 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A memoir of S.S. Prentiss by George Lewis Prentiss( Book )

1 edition published in 1855 in English and held by 147 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Statistical view of the United States : embracing its territory, population--white, free colored, and slave--, moral and social condition, industry, property, and revenue : the detailed statistics of cities, towns, and counties : being a compendium of the seventh census, to which are added the results of every previous census, beginning with 1790, in comparative tables, with explanatory and illustrative notes, based upon the schedules and other official sources of information by United States( Book )

1 edition published in 1854 in English and held by 135 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The red record of the Sioux : life of Sitting Bull and history of the Indian war of 1890-91 : a graphic account of the life of the great medicine man and chief Sitting Bull : his tragic death : story of the Sioux nation : their manners and customs, ghost dances and Messiah craze : also, a very complete history of the sanguinary Indian war of 1890-'91 by Willis Fletcher Johnson( Book )

1 edition published in 1891 in English and held by 117 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Hitler : Aufstieg und Untergang des Dritten Reiches : Ein Dokument in Bildern by Robert Neumann( Book )

1 edition published in 1961 in German and held by 108 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An inquiry into the character and tendency of the American colonization, and American anti-slavery societies by William Jay( Book )

1 edition published in 1835 in English and held by 102 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A journey to central Africa : or, Life and landscapes from Egypt to the Negro kingdoms of the White Nile. [1852] by Bayard Taylor( Book )

1 edition published in 1854 in English and held by 99 WorldCat member libraries worldwide