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.
Whiskey, Women, and War
How the Great War Shaped Jim Crow New Orleans
An exciting and surprising history of the New Orleans home front during World War I
What the Children Said
Child Lore of South Louisiana
A deep exploration of children’s play and its impact on learning race, history, and sexuality
Rulers of the SEC
Ole Miss and Mississippi State, 1959-1966
How two Mississippi universities won twelve of twenty-four championships to dominate sports and reign supreme in the SEC
Marginalized
Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender
A close analysis of southern women playwrights
Instruments of Empire
Filipino Musicians, Black Soldiers, and Military Band Music during US Colonization of the Philippines
How a Philippine military band and their Black conductor dazzled America while soothing its racial anxieties
Friendship and Devotion, or Three Months in Louisiana
Never before in English, a travel-adventure novel of two young women navigating antebellum Louisiana
The Comics World
Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics
A thoroughly researched collection designed to engage with the social sciences in order to expand comics studies as a field
Surinamese Music in the Netherlands and Suriname
Available in English for the first time, the integral and only book on all the music of a most diverse nation
Robert Kirkman
Conversations
Collected interviews with the comics fan-turned-creator best known for The Walking Dead andInvincible
Rebirth of the English Comic Strip
A Kaleidoscope, 1847-1870
A master scholar’s thorough study of the neglected but vital age in which the term “cartoon” was coined