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
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
Komiks
Comic Art in Russia
The first study to trace the evolution of Russian comics from Soviet bête noire to post-Perestroika art form
James Z. George
Mississippi’s Great Commoner
A biography of the Democratic leader once considered the most important man in state politics
Alan Lomax, Assistant in Charge
The Library of Congress Letters, 1935-1945
Collected correspondence from arguably the most important folklorist of the twentieth century