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.
Jonathan Demme
Interviews
Collected interviews with the director of The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, Married to the Mob, and other films
Making Haste Slowly
The Troubled History of Higher Education in Mississippi
A comprehensive history that reveals the intrusion of culture and politics into higher education in Mississippi
Golden Days
Reminiscences of Alumnae, Mississippi State College for Women
Anatomy of Four Race Riots
Racial Conflict in Knoxville, Elaine (Arkansas), Tulsa, and Chicago, 1919-1921
A study of the terrible racial violence that erupted in four different communities of America after World War I
A Comics Studies Reader
A survey of the best scholarly writing on the form, craft, history, and significance of the comics
Arthur Penn
Interviews
Collected interviews with the director of Bonnie and Clyde, Alice’s Restaurant, Little Big Man, Night Moves, and other films
Barthé
A Life in Sculpture
A celebration of the acclaimed African American modern sculptor
Reminiscences of an Active Life
The Autobiography of John Roy Lynch
The memoir of an accomplished politician and the first African American from Mississippi elected to the United States Congress
Vietnam and the Southern Imagination
A revealing look at how the new generation of southern writers links southern cultural heritage and the American experience in Vietnam
Unruly Tongue
Identity and Voice in American Women's Writing, 1850-1930
A study of how women writers found ways to sound an authoritative voice in the male-dominated world
Three Catholic Writers of the Modern South
Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon, and Walker Percy
A full-length study of Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon, and Walker Percy—three Catholic writers in the predominately evangelical South
The South and Film
Twenty-two essays that explore the evolution of southern film and its future
The Natchez District and the American Revolution
The most comprehensive history of the Revolutionary War in the lower Mississippi Valley
Slavery and Frontier Mississippi, 1720-1835
A new look at the evolution of this frontier society and its unyielding grip on slavery
Perspectives and Irony in American Slavery
Essays on the slave experience in America written in 1976 with the backdrop of the America's bicentennial underway
Negative Intelligence
The Army and the American Left, 1917-1941
An incredible disclosure of army espionage on US civilians and leftist groups
Life and Confession of the Noted Outlaw James Copeland
A Mississippi sheriff’s account of a notorious southern outlaw’s heyday in crime
Have We Overcome?
Race Relations Since Brown, 1954-1979
A variety of perspectives on America’s race relations from 1954 through 1979
Folk Music and Modern Sound
Essays by Amiri Baraka, David Evans, Bill C. Malone, Robert Palmer, Richard Spottswood, Charles K. Wolfe, and more
Faulkner and the Southern Renaissance
Collected essays on the relation of the Nobel Laureate to the Southern Renaissance
Divine Destiny
Gender and Race in Nineteenth-Century Protestantism
An investigation that shows the impact of manifest destiny and domesticity on women and nonwhite men in nineteenth-century America
Cultural Orphans in America
A study of orphan imagery as a reflection of cultural identity formation in America
Correspondence of Flannery O'Connor and the Brainard Cheneys
188 previously unpublished letters between Flannery O'Connor and novelist Brainard Cheney, a fellow Roman Catholic close to the Tate circle
African American Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas
A history of how African American churches produced political firebrands in a call for civil rights and justice
A Cosmos of My Own
Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1980
A scrutiny of the many trails Faulkner developed between distinct novels
You Are Where You Eat
Stories and Recipes from the Neighborhoods of New Orleans
A tour of the delectable and original from renowned home cooks in the Crescent City
Conversations with Anthony Burgess
Collected interviews with the British author of A Clockwork Orange, ReJoyce: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader, and other works
Rare Birds
Conversations with Legends of Jazz and Classical Music
Conversations with the leading edge of contemporary jazz and classical composers
TVA Photography, 1963-2008
Challenges and Changes in the Tennessee Valley
Photographs that document the evolution of a critical government agency
Photographs from the Memphis World, 1949-1964
An invaluable pictorial overview of African American vitality in a southern metropolis