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John Knox Bettersworth (1909-1991) was a history professor and author in Mississippi. [1] [2]James W. Loewen wrote critically of the bigotry and inaccuracy in Betterworth's high school textbooks that were standard in Mississippi schools for decades [3] and Betterworth's work was contrasted with the textbook Loewen and Charles Sallis co-edited in 1974 in Sallis's obituary. [4]
The Mississippi Historical Society was relaunched for a third time in 1952 and has maintained itself in continuous operation ever since. [3] For a brief year between 1952 and 1953 MHS was active, falling once more into dormancy until its most successful upstart in 1964 with the production of J. F. H. Claiborne’s book "Mississippi as a Province, Territory, and State". [7]
Edmund Richardson (June 28, 1818 − January 11, 1886) was an American entrepreneur who acquired great wealth during the mid-19th century by producing and marketing cotton in the states of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas.
A History of Mississippi 2 vols. (1973), thorough coverage by scholars; Mitchell, Dennis J., A New History of Mississippi (2014) Ownby, Ted et al. eds. The Mississippi Encyclopedia (2017) Sansing, David G. Making Haste Slowly: The Troubled History of Higher Education in Mississippi (University Press of Mississippi, 2004) Skates, John Ray.
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Born in Oakland, Mississippi, Dunbar Rowland was the youngest son of physician William Brewer Rowland and Mary Bryan Rowland. [2] His grandfather, Creed Taylor Rowland (c.1802–c.1866), had moved from Virginia to Lowndes County, Mississippi, using enslaved African Americans as a collateral for loans that allowed him to buy up large tracts of land.
David Gaffney Sansing (June 15, 1933 – July 6, 2019) [1] was a history professor and author in Mississippi who wrote extensively about the state's history. He was a professor emeritus at the University of Mississippi at the time of his death.
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths is a 2013 book written by Mariana Mazzucato which argues that the United States' economic success is a result of public and state-funded investments in innovation and technology, rather than a result of the small state, free market doctrine that often receives credit for the country's strong economy.