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.
Conversations with William Maxwell
Conversations with the author of They Came Like Swallows, The Folded Leaf, and the American Book Award-winning So Long, See You Tomorrow
Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers
Culture and Politics of the Early Cold War
How artists maintained integrity in the Red Scare’s atmosphere of conformity
The Feminist Poetry Movement
An exploration of the beneficial interplay of the feminist poetry movement and the American women's movement
Resistance and Reformation in Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature
Brown, Wilson, Jacobs, Delany, Douglass, and Harper
An examination of how six prominent African American writers of the nineteenth century reconfigured a threatening world
Religion in Mississippi
From Catholicism to Evangelicalism, from the seventeenth century to the present day, a study of dissonant religious forces in Mississippi’s turbulent history
Passing in the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt
An exploration of a great American writer's abiding concern with the color line
On Floods and Photo Ops
How Herbert Hoover and George W. Bush Exploited Catastrophes
Invisible Suburbs
Recovering Protest Fiction in the 1950s United States
Faulkner's Sexualities
Essays that tackle the complex sexual tensions and trappings in the Nobel Laureate’s work
Conversations with S. J. Perelman
Interviews with the author of Baby, It’s Cold Outside; Chicken Inspector #23; and Crazy Like a Fox
Building Louisiana
The Legacy of the Public Works Administration
A survey of New Deal construction projects and their lasting social and political impact
A Pictorial History of Delta State University
This book presents the story of Delta State University in both narrative and pictorial form.
Personal Souths
Interviews from the Southern Quarterly
The very best literary interviews from fifty years of scholarly inquiry
Mississippi Weather and Climate
A comprehensive survey of the state's wild and crazy weather history
Daisy Bates
Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas
A biography of the courageous mentor to the Little Rock Nine
Mississippi's American Indians
The full story of the state’s once thriving and diverse American Indian population
Wilder Ways
A lifelong outdoorsman and teacher’s accounts of the powerful bond between nature and humanity
Voice of the Leopard
African Secret Societies and Cuba
How African secret societies changed the music, art, and history of Cuba
Merchant-Ivory
Interviews
Interviews with the team that created the films Howard’s End, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, The Remains of the Day, The White Countess, and The City of Your Final Destination, among many others
Robert Rodriguez
Interviews
Interviews with the director of Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, Planet Terror, and Sin City
Conversations with David Foster Wallace
Conversations with the author of A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and Infinite Jest
The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville
Over 500 entries on the cherished and the forgotten from a once popular and influential entertainment form
Drawing France
French Comics and the Republic
A sophisticated account of the evolving role of comics in recent French history
Let's Make Some Noise
Axé and the African Roots of Brazilian Popular Music
How a religion and its sacred energy animated Brazilian musical creation
Hurricane Katrina
The Mississippi Story
The definitive Mississippi account of the greatest natural disaster in American history
Drawn and Dangerous
Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s
A record of turbulent times in which the comics became the trusted platform to attack the status quo in Italy
The Survival of Soap Opera
Transformations for a New Media Era
How the daytime drama format reaches or loses its audience in the Internet age
The Garden District of New Orleans
A remarkable architectural and historical tour of the Big Easy's cardinal suburb
The Night Travellers
A Vietnam-era novel of love, protest, and fervent beliefs