Mike Bunn is a historian and author who has worked with several cultural heritage institutions in the Southeast. He currently serves as director of Historic Blakeley State Park in Spanish Fort, Alabama, and is active with numerous local and regional history organizations. Clay Williams worked for the Mississippi Department of Archives and History for over twenty years before retiring from the state in 2022. A strong advocate for public history and the power of place, he has given numerous presentations and been published in several venues.
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Old Southwest to Old South is a useful, even essential, book that narrates a dynamic period in Mississippi history that laid the groundwork of the antebellum Deep South and perhaps the future of the South more broadly.--Patrick Luck "Journal of Southern History" Old Southwest to Old South is an outstanding synthesis of the literature on the early history of Mississippi. Mike Bunn and Clay Williams are in thorough control of their sources, making the most of them to present an unfailingly captivating narrative of the years from the formation of the Mississippi Territory to the new state's pivotal position in the emerging Deep South. [The book] commands a place on the front shelf of everyone interested in a wilderness now vanished, that once was a keystone of young America.--William C. Davis, author of Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis