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.
Lars von Trier
Interviews
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
Sonny Montgomery
The Veteran's Champion
The autobiography of the Mississippi Congressman who spearheaded the drive for the revamped G.I. Bill
Appalachian Lives
Photographs that trace time across the faces and lives of Appalachian families
Some Notes on River Country
In prose and photography, Welty’s meditation on her inspiring encounter with an enduring landscape
Mardi Gras, Gumbo, and Zydeco
Readings in Louisiana Culture
Canoeing Louisiana
The complete guidebook for paddling the rivers, streams, swamps, and lakes of the Sportsman’s Paradise
Alfred Hitchcock
Interviews
A collection of interviews with the director who has become synonymous with both stylish, sophisticated suspense and mordant black comedy
Malinche's Children
A novel in stories chronicling the rise of a Chicano barrio in California
Tough-as-Nails Flowers for the South
The southerner’s guidebook to selecting, growing, and utilizing superior landscape flowers
The Cajuns
Americanization of a People
A history of how Cajun culture coped with forces that threatened its uniqueness
Robert G. Clark's Journey to the House
The story of a black man’s unprecedented rise to power and political prominence in the formerly segregationist state of Mississippi
Michael Powell
Interviews
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
Operation Pretense
The FBI's Sting on County Corruption in Mississippi
A narrative detailing an FBI ploy that exposed the largest public corruption scandal in Mississippi history
Carl Barks
Conversations
Interviews with the Disney artist who created Scrooge McDuck and many well-loved comic books
Martin Ritt
Interviews
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
Carlos Saura
Interviews
Collected interviews with the Spanish filmmaker of Mama Turns a Hundred, Carmen, and Tango
Brian De Palma
Interviews
Profiles and q & a interviews which follow De Palma’s fortunes as he makes the transition from underground filmmaker to celebrity auteur
Tracing Your Alabama Past
For genealogists and others, a detailed guide to informational resources in Alabama records
Conversations with Margaret Walker
The Sixteenth Mississippi Infantry
Civil War Letters and Reminiscences
Haunted Places in the American South
Your guide to the spookiest spots in Dixie
Lost Landmarks of Mississippi
A guide to historic buildings lost to neglect, flames, “progress,” and bulldozers
Touring Literary Mississippi
A traveler’s guide combined with capsule biographies and photographs of writers with Mississippi ties
The War of Our Childhood
Memories of World War II
Accounts that bear witness to the unutterable horrors German children endured during World War II
Interviews with Betty Friedan
Thirty-six years of interviews with the “Mother of Modern Feminism.”
The World War II Black Regiment That Built the Alaska Military Highway
A Photographic History
A photographic record of a black regiment’s contribution to safeguarding Alaska from Japanese invasion