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.
Fragile Grounds
Louisiana's Endangered Cemeteries
A visual treasury of disappearing cemeteries and a call to preserve and document them
Behold the Proverbs of a People
Proverbial Wisdom in Culture, Literature, and Politics
The preeminent scholar of proverbs addresses the immense cultural impact of proverbs worldwide
A Season of Night
New Orleans Life after Katrina
An account of life post-Katrina and a paean to shaken, but ever-alluring, New Orleans
The Limits of Loyalty
Ordinary People in Civil War Mississippi
A reinterpretation of how ordinary citizens navigated life during wartime
European Empires in the American South
Colonial and Environmental Encounters
Case studies of Spanish, British, and French imperial ambitions
Conversations with Edmund White
Over thirty years of interviews with the award-winning author and scholar known for chronicling gay culture
Godfather of the Music Business
Morris Levy
The incredible story of the cofounder of Birdland, a force in jazz and pop, and one of music’s last great hustlers
Emmett Till
The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement
A gripping reexamination of the abduction and murder that galvanized the civil rights movement
Chris Ware
Conversations
Displaying both Ware’s erudition and his quirky self-deprecation, these collected interviews span his career from 1993 to 2015, creating a time-lapse portrait of the artist as he matures.
Prison Power
How Prison Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation
How iconic autobiographies found incarceration pivotal to the transition between civil rights and Black Power
Mississippi Writers
An Anthology
An omnibus of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama written by Mississippi authors
The Measure of Our Days
Writings of William F. Winter
Speeches from one of Mississippi’s best known and most progressive public servants
Quincy Jones
His Life in Music
A biography of one of the most influential creators and talents of the twentieth century
Lines Were Drawn
Remembering Court-Ordered Integration at a Mississippi High School
Oral histories gathered by three graduates of a major high school in Jackson, Mississippi
Anywhere But Here
Black Intellectuals in the Atlantic World and Beyond
Recent scholarship that expands the boundaries of Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic
Mississippi Black Paper
Shocking testimonials of the brutality committed against those fighting for freedom
Between Generations
Collaborative Authorship in the Golden Age of Children's Literature
How children and adults collaborated to create some of the most beloved works in literature
Shifting Interludes
Selected Essays
Covering the span of his forty-year career, a collection of eloquent essays by one of the South’s favorite writers
Seminole Burning
A Story of Racial Vengeance
The true story of mob vengeance on two innocent Native American teenagers in Oklahoma
Resisting Paradise
Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture
How Caribbean artists and activists counteract the apparently irresistible lure of the tourist dollar