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.

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Breaking the Rule of Cool

Interviewing and Reading Women Beat Writers

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American Raiders

The Race to Capture the Luftwaffe’s Secrets

University Press of Mississippi

A riveting account of the American servicemen who scrambled to keep Hitler’s technology out of Soviet hands

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Pilgrimage from Darkness

Nuremberg to Jerusalem

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The story of a former Hitler Youth’s journey to Judaism

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Lauren's Line

University Press of Mississippi

A satirical novel unveiling faculty shenanigans on an urban campus

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Shebang

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The rollicking story of an aunt and her nephew thrown together to fashion a family

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Voodoo Queen

The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau

University Press of Mississippi

The lives and times of the two most powerful spiritual women in Creole New Orleans

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Soldier's Son

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Frank Capra

Interviews

Edited by Leland Poague
University Press of Mississippi

This collection of interviews portrays the Capra legend vividly and demonstrates why the warm relations between Capra and his audiences continue to inspire acclaim and admiration

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Trumpet Records

Diamonds on Farish Street

University Press of Mississippi

In a new edition, the history of a regional record company and the blues, gospel, and R&B greats it launched nationally

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Terry Gilliam

Interviews

University Press of Mississippi

A collection of interviews with the renowned filmmaker, animator, artist, and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe

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The Choctaw before Removal

University Press of Mississippi

A book of eight essays focused on Choctaw history prior to 1830, when the tribe forfeited territorial claims and was removed from lands in Mississippi

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After Removal

The Choctaw in Mississippi

University Press of Mississippi

A collection of essays focused upon the vestige of the Choctaw tribe that remained in Mississippi after the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek had exiled most of this tribe to the Oklahoma Territory

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Robert Aldrich

Interviews

University Press of Mississippi

In this collection of interviews, the filmmaker tells fascinating stories of making motion pictures with such film legends as Burt Lancaster, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Burt Reynolds, and many others

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Pedro Almodóvar

Interviews

University Press of Mississippi

A collection of interviews that documents the twenty-two-year cinematic career of the most internationally celebrated Spanish art-film director since Luís Buñuel

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Mass Media and the Shaping of American Feminism, 1963-1975

University Press of Mississippi

An alarming look at how the media curtailed feminism

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Florida's Miracle Strip

From Redneck Riviera to Emerald Coast

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A nostalgic romp through the tourist attractions and vintage hotels of the Sunshine State’s Gulf Coast

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Assembling Art

The Machine and the American Avant-Garde

University Press of Mississippi

An examination of early modernism’s revolutionary alliance with the machine

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Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks

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Aliens, Ghosts, and Cults

Legends We Live

University Press of Mississippi

How tales we tell impact our day-to-day lives

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Jazz Planet

University Press of Mississippi

The first book to detail the spread and evolution of jazz into cultures around the world

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In the Southern Wild

By Joe Mac Hudspeth Jr.; Photographs by Joe Mac Hudspeth Jr.; Foreword by Rick Bass
University Press of Mississippi

In full color, homage to the thriving world of the South’s wetlands

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Unsung Valor

A GI's Story of World War II

University Press of Mississippi

Thirty riveting months in the life of a common infantryman, one among the “citizen soldiers” who took the Allies to victory

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Fritz Lang

Interviews

University Press of Mississippi

A collection of conversations about the filmmaker whose life and work spanned six decades of film history

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TVA Photography

Thirty Years of Life in the Tennessee Valley

University Press of Mississippi

From official TVA files, documentary images of the New Deal and its legacy

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The French Quarter of New Orleans

By Jim Fraiser; Photographs by West Freeman
University Press of Mississippi

Photographs and narrative that revive the charming spirit of old New Orleans

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On William Faulkner

By Eudora Welty; Afterword by Noel Polk
University Press of Mississippi

A memorable literary record that marks the encounter of two great American writers

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Water Dreams

University Press of Mississippi

A first novel in which a drowned man’s death transforms the life of a man who tried to save him

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Showman

The Life and Music of Perry George Lowery

University Press of Mississippi

The biography of an African American cornetist who traveled the country in minstrel shows and circus bands

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Steamboats and the Cotton Economy

River Trade in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta

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A history of steamboating along the waterways of one of the most fertile farmlands in America showing the importance of the steamboat industry to the economy of the Deep South

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Global Pop, Local Language

University Press of Mississippi

An anthology exploring the politics of language choice in world beat and pop music

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Bad Boy of Gospel Music

The Calvin Newton Story

University Press of Mississippi

The prodigal-son biography of a gospel music legend with the voice of an angel and a hell-bent drive toward self-destruction

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Lars von Trier

Interviews

Edited by Jan Lumholdt
University Press of Mississippi

A collection of interviews with the most intriguing film director to emerge in Denmark since the days of his great mentor in spirit Carl Theodor Dreyer

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Sonny Montgomery

The Veteran's Champion

University Press of Mississippi

The autobiography of the Mississippi Congressman who spearheaded the drive for the revamped G.I. Bill

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Conversations with Rita Dove

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Appalachian Lives

By Shelby Lee Adams; Introduction by Vicki Goldberg
University Press of Mississippi

Photographs that trace time across the faces and lives of Appalachian families

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Joseph Brodsky

Conversations

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Some Notes on River Country

University Press of Mississippi

In prose and photography, Welty’s meditation on her inspiring encounter with an enduring landscape

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Mardi Gras, Gumbo, and Zydeco

Readings in Louisiana Culture

University Press of Mississippi
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Canoeing Louisiana

University Press of Mississippi

The complete guidebook for paddling the rivers, streams, swamps, and lakes of the Sportsman’s Paradise

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Alfred Hitchcock

Interviews

Edited by Sidney Gottlieb
University Press of Mississippi

A collection of interviews with the director who has become synonymous with both stylish, sophisticated suspense and mordant black comedy

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Malinche's Children

University Press of Mississippi

A novel in stories chronicling the rise of a Chicano barrio in California

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Tough-as-Nails Flowers for the South

University Press of Mississippi

The southerner’s guidebook to selecting, growing, and utilizing superior landscape flowers

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The Cajuns

Americanization of a People

University Press of Mississippi

A history of how Cajun culture coped with forces that threatened its uniqueness

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Robert G. Clark's Journey to the House

University Press of Mississippi

The story of a black man’s unprecedented rise to power and political prominence in the formerly segregationist state of Mississippi

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Michael Powell

Interviews

Edited by David Lazar
University Press of Mississippi

This collection of interviews reveals the mind and the tactics of a master filmmaker who is woefully under-known, even as his films are widely celebrated throughout the world

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Operation Pretense

The FBI's Sting on County Corruption in Mississippi

University Press of Mississippi

A narrative detailing an FBI ploy that exposed the largest public corruption scandal in Mississippi history

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Carl Barks

Conversations

Edited by Donald Ault
University Press of Mississippi

Interviews with the Disney artist who created Scrooge McDuck and many well-loved comic books

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Martin Ritt

Interviews

Edited by Gabriel Miller
University Press of Mississippi

A collection of interviews with one of America’s preeminent makers of social films and one of the most sensitive portraitists of the rural South

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