The University Press of Mississippi was founded in 1970 and is supported by Mississippi's eight state universities. UPM publishes scholarly books of the highest distinction and books that interpret the South and its culture to the nation and the world. From its offices in Jackson, the University Press of Mississippi acquires, edits, distributes, and promotes more than eighty new books every year. Over the years, the Press has published more than 1000 titles and distributed more than 2,600,000 copies worldwide, each with the Mississippi imprint.

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Tough-as-Nails Flowers for the South

University Press of Mississippi

The southerner’s guidebook to selecting, growing, and utilizing superior landscape flowers

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The Cajuns

Americanization of a People

University Press of Mississippi

A history of how Cajun culture coped with forces that threatened its uniqueness

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Robert G. Clark's Journey to the House

University Press of Mississippi

The story of a black man’s unprecedented rise to power and political prominence in the formerly segregationist state of Mississippi

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Michael Powell

Interviews

Edited by David Lazar
University Press of Mississippi

This collection of interviews reveals the mind and the tactics of a master filmmaker who is woefully under-known, even as his films are widely celebrated throughout the world

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Operation Pretense

The FBI's Sting on County Corruption in Mississippi

University Press of Mississippi

A narrative detailing an FBI ploy that exposed the largest public corruption scandal in Mississippi history

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Carl Barks

Conversations

Edited by Donald Ault
University Press of Mississippi

Interviews with the Disney artist who created Scrooge McDuck and many well-loved comic books

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Martin Ritt

Interviews

Edited by Gabriel Miller
University Press of Mississippi

A collection of interviews with one of America’s preeminent makers of social films and one of the most sensitive portraitists of the rural South

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Carlos Saura

Interviews

Edited by Linda M. Willem
University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with the Spanish filmmaker of Mama Turns a Hundred, Carmen, and Tango

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Brian De Palma

Interviews

University Press of Mississippi

Profiles and q & a interviews which follow De Palma’s fortunes as he makes the transition from underground filmmaker to celebrity auteur

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Tracing Your Alabama Past

University Press of Mississippi

For genealogists and others, a detailed guide to informational resources in Alabama records

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Elie Wiesel

Conversations

University Press of Mississippi
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Conversations with Margaret Walker

Edited by Maryemma Graham
University Press of Mississippi
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Conversations with Erica Jong

University Press of Mississippi
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The Sixteenth Mississippi Infantry

Civil War Letters and Reminiscences

Edited by Robert G. Evans
University Press of Mississippi
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Haunted Places in the American South

University Press of Mississippi

Your guide to the spookiest spots in Dixie

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Lost Landmarks of Mississippi

University Press of Mississippi

A guide to historic buildings lost to neglect, flames, “progress,” and bulldozers

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Touring Literary Mississippi

University Press of Mississippi

A traveler’s guide combined with capsule biographies and photographs of writers with Mississippi ties

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The War of Our Childhood

Memories of World War II

University Press of Mississippi

Accounts that bear witness to the unutterable horrors German children endured during World War II

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Interviews with Betty Friedan

Edited by Janann Sherman
University Press of Mississippi

Thirty-six years of interviews with the “Mother of Modern Feminism.”

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The World War II Black Regiment That Built the Alaska Military Highway

A Photographic History

University Press of Mississippi

A photographic record of a black regiment’s contribution to safeguarding Alaska from Japanese invasion

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Conversations with Clarence Major

Edited by Nancy Bunge
University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews that show how the mind of an enormously talented and multifaceted artist works while conveying a sense of the generosity and optimism that keep him experimenting and learning

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The Role of Ideas in the Civil Rights South

Edited by Ted Ownby
University Press of Mississippi
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Understanding Colon Cancer

University Press of Mississippi
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Jazz and Death

Medical Profiles of Jazz Greats

University Press of Mississippi

A disclosure of the deaths of jazz artists and their often fatal lifestyles

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Passionate Observer

Eudora Welty among Artists of the Thirties

University Press of Mississippi

A handsome and informative book featuring Welty among her peers in painting, photography, and other arts during the 1930s

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Preserving the Pascagoula

University Press of Mississippi

A new edition of a classic book about the environmental triumph that saved a southeast Mississippi wetland

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Okefenokee

Photographs by Lucian Niemeyer; Text by George W. Folkerts
University Press of Mississippi

Lush photographs of and informative text about the primeval Okefenokee wetlands area in the American southeast

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Spike Lee

Interviews

Edited by Cynthia Fuchs
University Press of Mississippi

The best interviews and profiles of America’s most prominent African American filmmaker

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Memphis

University Press of Mississippi

Sweeping photographs portraying the rebirth and rise of modern Memphis, Tennessee

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Interviews with George F. Kennan

University Press of Mississippi

Collected talks with the American statesman who delineated the West’s Cold War policy of Soviet containment

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Conversations with Jim Harrison

Edited by Robert DeMott
University Press of Mississippi

The first-ever collection of interviews with this well-known, prolific writer whose books include twenty-two volumes of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction published over a period of thirty-six years

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Billy Wilder

Interviews

Edited by Robert Horton
University Press of Mississippi

In-depth profiles, spirited Q & A’s, and on-the-set glimpses of the director at work

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Sports

The All-American Addiction

University Press of Mississippi

A sports insider cries foul at America’s obsession with big-time athletics

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Milton Caniff

Conversations

University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with the master cartoonist who created Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon

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Conversations with Mary Gordon

Edited by Alma Bennett
University Press of Mississippi

This collection allows the reader to trace the roots—both literary and autobiographical—of one of America’s most fiercely intelligent and thoughtful writers.

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Foster Care Odyssey

A Black Girl's Story

University Press of Mississippi

An African American woman’s unblinking look at her troubled years as an unwanted child in foster care

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Laugh Track

University Press of Mississippi

Ingenious short fiction from the author of the novels Flesh and Turning Japanese

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Orson Welles

Interviews

Edited by Mark W. Estrin
University Press of Mississippi

An array of interviews, profiles, and press conferences tracing the half century that this multidimensional film director and actor was in the public eye

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Steven Soderbergh

Interviews

Edited by Anthony Kaufman
University Press of Mississippi

Interviews which chart the rise and fall and rise again of the writer-director-producer’s surprising career from 1989 to 2001

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Fishing Mississippi

By Tony Kinton; Foreword by Bill Dance
University Press of Mississippi

The complete angler’s guidebook to landing the state’s many game fish

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The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760

University Press of Mississippi

The most current thought on Native Americans of the colonial South

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Neo-Pagan Sacred Art and Altars

Making Things Whole

University Press of Mississippi

Mystic meanings behind the flourishing art of modern-day pagans and witches

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Uncle Monday and Other Florida Tales

University Press of Mississippi

An elegantly illustrated collection of forty-nine traditional tales from the Sunshine State

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Hank Williams, So Lonesome

University Press of Mississippi

An authoritative separation of myth from fact in the life of the great country music star

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Cool Cars, High Art

The Rise of Kustom Kulture

University Press of Mississippi

A revved-up cruise through a world where chopped Mercs and slammed Chevies are works of art

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The Pilgrim Jubilees

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Africans and Seminoles

From Removal to Emancipation

University Press of Mississippi

An updated edition of a standard work documenting the interrelationship of two racial cultures in antebellum Florida and Oklahoma

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Conversations with Richard Ford

Edited by Huey Guagliardo
University Press of Mississippi
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The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission

Civil Rights and States' Rights

University Press of Mississippi

A history of the Magnolia State’s notorious watchdog agency established for maintaining racial segregation

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