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Dennis Mitchell, a professor at Mississippi State University-Meridian, casts a critical eye on the "Moonlight and Magnolias" school of Southern history, trying to communicate decades of recent scholarship to readers with a decided emphasis on the post-Civil War period.

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Analysis: Book Takes Fresh Look at Miss. History

The book is called "A New History of Mississippi," and a new approach is what Dennis Mitchell wanted when he wrote it.

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