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.
Perspectives on Percival Everett
The first collection of essays to examine the breadth of Everett’s creative output
Legend-Tripping Online
Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong's Hat
How the Internet crystallizes fringe theories into amazing realities
Eudora Welty and Surrealism
A study of the profound influence of surrealism on the writer’s craft
Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination
Innocence by Association
How the civil rights movement changed the careers of four white American writers as well as the literary establishment
Building the Beloved Community
Philadelphia’s Interracial Civil Rights Organizations and Race Relations, 1930–1970
How a northern city with de facto segregation overcame prejudice and became a beacon for the rest of America
A New History of Mississippi
The first comprehensive history of the state in nearly four decades
Racial Uplift and American Music, 1878-1943
The first book to track racial uplift ideology's effect on classical music
The Search for Sam Goldwyn
A biography that parts the curtain on the true story behind Hollywood’s original movie mogul
Russell Long
A Life in Politics
The story of Huey Long's son, the powerful United States senator
Ravished Armenia and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian
A reminder of the pivotal role one woman played in our early apprehension of the Armenian genocide
Conversations with Ken Kesey
Interviews with the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Feminism, the Left, and Postwar Literary Culture
A cultural history of women writers on the Left and the roots of feminist literary criticism
Faulkner and Mystery
Essays that illuminate crime stories, whodunits, and quandaries in the Nobel laureate’s fiction
Happy Clouds, Happy Trees
The Bob Ross Phenomenon
An exploration of one of the most beloved and talented artists and painting instructors ever to teach on American television
The President’s Ladies
Jane Wyman and Nancy Davis
Three biographies in one, discovering fascinating connections among Ronald Reagan (1911–2004), Jane Wyman (1917–2007), and Nancy Davis (b. 1921–2016)
The Caribbean Novel since 1945
Cultural Practice, Form, and the Nation-State
How fiction, its forms, and its evolution reflect countries in the midst of postcolonial change
The True Gospel Preached Here
The documentary of Reverend H. D. Dennis's lost, one-of-a-kind, nondenominational church and treasure of folk art
Count Them One by One
Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote
Wide Awake in Slumberland
Fantasy, Mass Culture, and Modernism in the Art of Winsor McCay
The first study to place this genius of modern comics creation in his historical context
The Origins of Comics
From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay
In English for the first time, a foundational text that places the beginning of comics well before Rodolphe Töpffer