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.
Connecting Childhood and Old Age in Popular Media
Penetrating analysis of what it means in literature, film, animation, and advertising to act your age, or not
Michael Allred
Conversations
Collected interviews with the comics creator of Madman and iZombie
Sundays Down South
A Pastor's Stories
A revealing picture of southern character as seen in a minister’s recollections of his congregations
Reading in the Dark
Horror in Children's Literature and Culture
Considerations of horror from Struwwelpeter to Coraline, Shrek, and Monsters, Inc.
Chronicle of a Camera
The Arriflex 35 in North America, 1945–1972
A history of the lightweight workhorse camera that transformed postwar cinematography
Unveiling the Muse
The Lost History of Gay Carnival in New Orleans
The untold story of a powerful Mardi Gras tradition
Conversations with Percival Everett
Interviews with the author of erasure, God’s Country, and I Am Not Sidney Poitier
Richard Wright Writing America at Home and from Abroad
An international reassessment of the great writer’s work
Fannye Cook
Mississippi's Pioneering Conservationist
A biography of Mississippi’s trailblazing female conservationist and scientist
Selling Folk Music
An Illustrated History
A colorful account of the history of folk music told through the images that sold the music
The Canadian Alternative
Cartoonists, Comics, and Graphic Novels
A broad survey of all the inspirations of comics creation in Canada
Ed Brubaker
Conversations
Collected interviews with one of the most popular, significant figures in art comics since the 1990s
Forging the Past
Seth and the Art of Memory
A critical study of the extraordinary Canadian comics creator
Sowing the Wind
The Mississippi Constitutional Convention of 1890
How a radical constitution blocked racial progress and upended the class system
A Charlie Brown Religion
Exploring the Spiritual Life and Work of Charles M. Schulz
The first spiritual biography of a misunderstood believer, the renowned creator of Peanuts
Intimate Partner Violence in New Orleans
Gender, Race, and Reform, 1840-1900
The history of the challenges faced by women of all races in the Crescent City
Telling Our Stories
Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum
The definitive guide to two state-of-the-art museums—the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, which opened in December 2017, in celebration of the state’s bicentennial
New Orleans Remix
How New Orleans musicians perpetually renew a grand musical tradition from classical to jazz, funk, and beyond
High Cotton
Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta
A paean to the vanishing family cotton farm
The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev
Volume I
The first volume of a comprehensive gathering of tales from the Russian Grimm