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.
Administrative Reorganization of Mississippi Government
A Study of Politics
A study of the multifaceted and complicated issue of state government reorganization in Mississippi
A Culture of Confidence
A study of contemporary America’s demand for the cultural confidence game of performance politics
New Orleans Sketches
Faulkner’s early fictional forays that foreshadow a Nobel Laureate in the making
The Peninsula Campaign of 1862
A Military Analysis
A military history of McClellan's ambitious drive on Richmond and the genius and fortune by which Lee foiled it
Natchez before 1830
An informative study representing a variety of scholarly perspectives revealing the cultural, historical, economic, political and geographical evolution of Old Natchez
Madame Vieux Carre
From dicey red light district to historic tourist destination, the story of the Quarter’s transformative century
Conversations with Sherman Alexie
Interviews with the Native American author of the short story collections Ten Little Indians and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven; the National Book Award–winning young adult novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian; and the screenplay Smoke Signals
David Lynch
Interviews
Interviews with the acclaimed director of the films Dune, Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man, Mulholland Drive, and Inland Empire and the hit TV series Twin Peaks
My Two Oxfords
A special edition honoring an adored Mississippi writer on the 75th anniversary of his birth
Dictionary of Louisiana French
As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities
The definitive reference tool for understanding francophone Louisiana and its rich, French variety
Conversations with Kingsley Amis
Interviews with the acclaimed author of Lucky Jim, The Anti-Death League, and Take a Girl Like You
Louisiana Governors
Rulers, Rascals, and Reformers
A revelation of the wild, wily, and well-meaning chief executives of a colorful state
William Wyler
Interviews
Interviews with the director of Ben Hur, Jezebel, Mrs. Miniver, Roman Holiday, and Wuthering Heights
Tennessee Williams and the South
Words and pictures that show the South’s imprint on the life and works of the great playwright
Working the Field
Accounts from French Louisiana
Jennie Carter
A Black Journalist of the Early West
The first collection from an African American journalist writing for the San Francisco Elevator
Passage on the Underground Railroad
A photographer’s evocative interpretation of the history and places along the slave’s path to freedom
Legend of the Free State of Jones
Legend of the Free State of Jones was the first authoritative explanation of just what did happen in Jones County in 1864 to give rise to the legend and now to a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey.
Lewis Hine as Social Critic
A study of the great photographer as a progressive thinker and political activist
Mississippi Politics
The Struggle for Power, 1976-2008, Second Edition
The definitive work on the state’s recent political history, campaigns, legislative battles, and litigation, updated and expanded to reflect the profound consequences of the 2007 and 2008 elections on Mississippi
Writings of Frank Marshall Davis
A Voice of the Black Press
Columns and news pieces from a great American journalist
Horror Film
Creating and Marketing Fear
Essays on the rise of the horror film and on how moviemakers package and promote fright
Birds and Birding on the Mississippi Coast
The first book to focus attention on sighting the 357 species of birds known to inhabit the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Thomas Jefferson on Wine
A connoisseur’s compendium of a great American’s passion for fine wine
A Lost Heroine of the Confederacy
The Diaries and Letters of Belle Edmondson
This collection of exciting letters and diaries documents Belle Edmondson’s active role behind the scenes in the Civil War and reveals her to have been a courier, a gatherer of intelligence, and a smuggler of contraband on behalf of southern troops in west Tennessee.
The Catfish Book
A fact-filled, light-hearted book that tells everything everyone would wish to know about the South’s fish of choice
Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967
This first comprehensive compilation of Mississippi literary biographies; includes all of the state’s writers who wrote and published a work of at least 30 pages in length; featuring approximately 1500 authors
Layered Violence
The Detroit Rioters of 1943
A descriptive profile of the rioters in the bloody civil disorder that devastated sectors of Detroit in 1943.
Cradle and All
A Cultural and Psychoanalytic Study of Nursery Rhymes
A look into the rich yet bewildering meanings found in the literature of childhood
Scorpions of Medical Importance
An account of the many stinging arachnids that have medical impact
Archeology of Mississippi
A classic study of the archeological sites and artifacts of the prehistoric Indians who inhabited the lands that are now the state of Mississippi
Brierfield
Plantation Home of Jefferson Davis
The intriguing history of the home (and the family) from which Jefferson Davis was called to become the President of the Confederate States of America
Shaping Memories
Reflections of African American Women Writers
Lost Plantations of the South
An illustrated history of the grand southern plantation homes lost to war, disaster, neglect, and progress
The Essence of Herbs
An Environmental Guide to Herb Gardening
Fascinating lore, practical herb garden design, comprehensive guidance in cultivating and harvesting herbs
Conversations with Samuel R. Delany
Interviews with the author of Dhalgren; Babel-17; Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand; the Nevéryon cycle; and Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
The South and Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha
The Actual and the Apocryphal
Essays that explore how Faulkner shaped a region and how a region shaped the great writer and his fiction
