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.
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
Of Times and Race
Essays Inspired by John F. Marszalek
Contributions to the study of race relations from the Civil War to the early 1950s
The Mind of the South
Fifty Years Later
Scholarly debate about W. J. Cash and one of the most influential books ever written about the American South
Lonesome Melodies
The Lives and Music of the Stanley Brothers
The first biography of two integral bluegrass innovators and touchstones of old-time country music authenticity
Peter Weir
Interviews
The first published collection of interviews with the Australian director whose films include the Academy Award-nominated Witness, Dead Poets Society, Green Card, The Truman Show, and Master and Commander
We Shall Not Be Moved
The Jackson Woolworth's Sit-In and the Movement It Inspired
An up-close study of a pinnacle moment in the struggle and of those who fought for change
David L. Jordan
From the Mississippi Cotton Fields to the State Senate, a Memoir
The inspiring autobiography of a cotton field worker who became a major force for change in Mississippi
Folklore Theory in Postwar Germany
A study of Lutz Röhrich, the key folklorist who redeemed and contextualized German folklore after horrific misuses by the Nazis