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.
Getting Off at Elysian Fields
Obituaries from the New Orleans Times-Picayune
A masterful writer’s career-spanning selection of the best remembrances from the Big Easy
American Cyclone
Theodore Roosevelt and His 1900 Whistle-Stop Campaign
An account of the extraordinary twenty-three-state, 480-stop blitz that shaped Roosevelt and the West
To See Them Run
Great Plains Coyote Coursing
An unforgettable and up-close portrait of the men and dogs who hunt coyotes
Uniting Mississippi
Democracy and Leadership in the South
An approach to cultivating the leaders of tomorrow
Bright Fields
The Mastery of Marie Hull
A deluxe and dazzling biography of the great Mississippi artist
Tell about Night Flowers
Eudora Welty's Gardening Letters, 1940-1949
A collection of the garden correspondence of a great American writer and gardener
Return to Guntown
Classic Trials of the Outlaws and Rogues of Faulkner Country
New tales of wild bad guys from an accomplished prosecutor of drug lords, kidnappers, con men, and other colorful criminals
A Real American Character
The Life of Walter Brennan
The first biography of the prodigiously hard-working actor who embodied the Western ideal
Toni Morrison
Memory and Meaning
An anthology that examines the many achievements of the Nobel Laureate
Reading Like a Girl
Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature
How novels targeted at teens engage narrator and reader in intimate dramas of friendship, love, identity, and sexuality
Death, Disability, and the Superhero
The Silver Age and Beyond
The first full-length examination of the evolving superhero through the lens of disability studies
Under Surge, Under Siege
The Odyssey of Bay St. Louis and Katrina
A survivor’s tale of Hurricane Katrina’s destruction and a community’s enduring determination
The Southern Manifesto
Massive Resistance and the Fight to Preserve Segregation
How one document marked the nadir of American racial politics and unleashed a fire that raged across the segregated South
Raised Up Down Yonder
Growing Up Black in Rural Alabama
A classic ethnographic study of rural children, their community, and their school
America's Great Storm
Leading through Hurricane Katrina
A first-person account of the year following the worst natural disaster in American history
Jack Cristil
Voice of the MSU Bulldogs, Revised Edition
The biography of the last of the iconic sports announcers from the Golden Age of Radio
Lines of Scrimmage
A Story of Football, Race, and Redemption
The story of a historic boycott by thirty-one black players on a southern high school football team
Race and the Obama Phenomenon
The Vision of a More Perfect Multiracial Union
Essays that explore how the first black president connects to the past and reimagines national racial and political horizons
Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos
Conceptions of the African American West
A study of representations of blackness in movies, music, performance art, and popular journalism
Oil and Water
Media Lessons from Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon Disaster
How the media handled coverage and shaped understandings of two massive and ongoing catastrophes
Southern Ladies and Suffragists
Julia Ward Howe and Women's Rights at the 1884 New Orleans World's Fair
A close look at the issues of gender and power at the 1884 World’s Fair in New Orleans
Black Baseball, Black Business
Race Enterprise and the Fate of the Segregated Dollar
An extraordinary history of the Negro Leagues and the economic disruptions of desegregating a sport
Embroidered Stories
Interpreting Women's Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora
A thorough exploration of the influence of a traditional skill of the Italian diaspora
Gustave Doré
Twelve Comic Strips
For the first time in English, the overlooked sequential narratives by the great illustrator and engraver
A Special Relationship
Britain Comes to Hollywood and Hollywood Comes to Britain
An exploration of the extraordinary cultural exchange between two great filmmaking countries
The Legacy of Eric Williams
Into the Postcolonial Moment
A study of the contributions of a public intellectual and a former prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago
Troutmouth
The Two Careers of Hugh Clegg
The remarkable story of a top man at Hoover’s FBI and at Ole Miss before and during the civil rights era
Once in a Lifetime
Reflections of a Mississippi First Lady
The firsthand account of a governor’s wife who transformed her position from mansion hostess to a more meaningful role in state government
In Defense of Freedom
Stories of Courage and Sacrifice of World War II Army Air Forces Flyers
An honor roll and an indelible remembrance of sacrifice, courage, and brotherhood in World War II
Songs of Sorrow
Lucy McKim Garrison and Slave Songs of the United States
The untold story behind the creation of the classic songbook Slave Songs of the United States
Gone to the Grave
Burial Customs of the Arkansas Ozarks, 1850-1950
A rich survey of folk practices prior to mortuaries and the funeral industry
Toons in Toyland
The Story of Cartoon Character Merchandise
A look at the way cartoons dominated the magic of merchandising
From Midnight to Guntown
True Crime Stories from a Federal Prosecutor in Mississippi
A former prosecutor’s tales of the ne’er-do-wells and knuckle heads he helped bring to justice
D. A. Pennebaker
Interviews
Interviews with the director of Dont Look Back, The War Room, and Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak
A New Orleans Family Memoir
The Big Easy family saga of an eccentric father, a workaholic mother, and the birth of the Ruth’s Chris Steak House empire
The Jumbies' Playing Ground
Old World Influences on Afro-Creole Masquerades in the Eastern Caribbean
A study of the carnival traditions that created “whole theater” folk pageants
Mario Lanza
Singing to the Gods
A biography of the Italian American tenor, star of The Great Caruso and inspiration to the Three Tenors
Desegregating Desire
Race and Sexuality in Cold War American Literature
An exploration of writers who examine integration through the charged lens of sexuality
Black Diva of the Thirties
The Life of Ruby Elzy
The biography of a black operatic soprano who died too soon
Werner Herzog
Interviews
Interviews with the director of Signs of Life; Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Grizzly Man; and Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Eric Rohmer
Interviews
Interviews with the director of Ma Nuit chez Maud
Agnes Varda
Interviews
Collected interviews with the French filmmaker who is sometimes called the "Mother of the New Wave"
The Architecture of William Nichols
Building the Antebellum South in North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi
A restoration of the legacy of one of the South’s most prolific and influential architects before the Civil War
To Do This, You Must Know How
Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition
A landmark study tracing the current of music education that gave form and style to the black gospel quartet tradition
The State of Health and Health Care in Mississippi
A comprehensive survey of the health care crisis in one of the nation’s poorest states
Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance
A compelling history of the director’s films of war and resistance
Women Pioneers of the Louisiana Environmental Movement
Compelling accounts from early champions of Louisiana’s struggle to save natural resources
West African Drumming and Dance in North American Universities
An Ethnomusicological Perspective
The first ethnomusicological study of the people who created a transnational connection in and through a world music culture
The Souls of White Folk
African American Writers Theorize Whiteness
The first book to examine whiteness as an intellectual tradition within African American literature