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.

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Silent Warriors, Incredible Courage

The Declassified Stories of Cold War Reconnaissance Flights and the Men Who Flew Them

University Press of Mississippi

The thrilling secret history of the American pilots who risked their lives to protect their country during the Cold War

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Dining with Madmen

Fat, Food, and the Environment in 1980s Horror

University Press of Mississippi

A modern study on America’s preoccupation with body weight, processed foods, and pollution through the lens of horror

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Crooked Snake

The Life and Crimes of Albert Lepard

University Press of Mississippi

The true story of a kidnapper’s calamitous criminal life as told by the man he abducted

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China in the Mix

Cinema, Sound, and Popular Culture in the Age of Globalization

University Press of Mississippi

A study of sound in the film and media industry of China, especially its music and multilingual soundtrack, that amplifies a vibrantly changing national power and global order

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Can’t Stand Still

Taylor Gordon and the Harlem Renaissance

University Press of Mississippi

The first biography of a singer who was once one of the most significant African American male vocalists in America

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You Don’t Know Jack

A Storyteller Goes to School

University Press of Mississippi

An examination of storytelling and story making using Jack tales as a metaphor to talk about teaching and telling

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Sports Crazy

How Sports Are Sabotaging American Schools

University Press of Mississippi

A reasoned, radical proposal to overhaul American school sports and free education from the madness of competition and entertainment

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Openness of Comics

Generating Meaning within Flexible Structures

University Press of Mississippi

How comics generate significance and weave images and words into a narrative art

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Faulkner and the Native South

University Press of Mississippi

An exploration of the Nobel laureate’s engagement with Native Americans and the ways in which Native American writing illuminates Faulkner

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Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia

University Press of Mississippi

The marvelous story of innovators C. C. Beck and Otto Binder and their mighty American hero

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