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.
Spheres of Liberty
Changing Perceptions of Liberty in American Culture
A historical overview of the concept of liberty in American culture and thought
A Cormac McCarthy Companion
The Border Trilogy
The first book to examine McCarthy’s three masterpiece novels as a cohesive whole
Christmas Stories from Mississippi
Classic and up-and-coming Mississippi authors share unique Yuletide experiences from the Deep South
George Cukor
Interviews
Collected interviews with the director of such films as The Philadelphia Story, Adam’s Rib, A Star Is Born, and My Fair Lady
Faulkner in America
A lively consideration of how to classify Faulkner’s place in America
Hi There, Boys and Girls!
America's Local Children's TV Programs
The first book to give considered focus to children’s television at the local level
John Ford
Interviews
The first collection of interviews with the legendary American director of such films as Young Mr. Lincoln, The Quiet Man, The Grapes of Wrath, and Stagecoach
The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
Civil Rights and States' Rights
A history of the Magnolia State’s notorious watchdog agency established for maintaining racial segregation
Conversations with Christopher Isherwood
Africans and Seminoles
From Removal to Emancipation
An updated edition of a standard work documenting the interrelationship of two racial cultures in antebellum Florida and Oklahoma
Cool Cars, High Art
The Rise of Kustom Kulture
A revved-up cruise through a world where chopped Mercs and slammed Chevies are works of art
Hank Williams, So Lonesome
An authoritative separation of myth from fact in the life of the great country music star
Uncle Monday and Other Florida Tales
An elegantly illustrated collection of forty-nine traditional tales from the Sunshine State
Neo-Pagan Sacred Art and Altars
Making Things Whole
Mystic meanings behind the flourishing art of modern-day pagans and witches
The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760
The most current thought on Native Americans of the colonial South
Fishing Mississippi
The complete angler’s guidebook to landing the state’s many game fish
Steven Soderbergh
Interviews
Interviews which chart the rise and fall and rise again of the writer-director-producer’s surprising career from 1989 to 2001
Orson Welles
Interviews
An array of interviews, profiles, and press conferences tracing the half century that this multidimensional film director and actor was in the public eye
Laugh Track
Ingenious short fiction from the author of the novels Flesh and Turning Japanese
Foster Care Odyssey
A Black Girl's Story
An African American woman’s unblinking look at her troubled years as an unwanted child in foster care
Conversations with Mary Gordon
This collection allows the reader to trace the roots—both literary and autobiographical—of one of America’s most fiercely intelligent and thoughtful writers.
Milton Caniff
Conversations
Collected interviews with the master cartoonist who created Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon
Billy Wilder
Interviews
In-depth profiles, spirited Q & A’s, and on-the-set glimpses of the director at work
Conversations with Jim Harrison
The first-ever collection of interviews with this well-known, prolific writer whose books include twenty-two volumes of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction published over a period of thirty-six years
Interviews with George F. Kennan
Collected talks with the American statesman who delineated the West’s Cold War policy of Soviet containment
Memphis
Sweeping photographs portraying the rebirth and rise of modern Memphis, Tennessee
Spike Lee
Interviews
The best interviews and profiles of America’s most prominent African American filmmaker
Okefenokee
Lush photographs of and informative text about the primeval Okefenokee wetlands area in the American southeast
Preserving the Pascagoula
A new edition of a classic book about the environmental triumph that saved a southeast Mississippi wetland
Passionate Observer
Eudora Welty among Artists of the Thirties
A handsome and informative book featuring Welty among her peers in painting, photography, and other arts during the 1930s
Jazz and Death
Medical Profiles of Jazz Greats
A disclosure of the deaths of jazz artists and their often fatal lifestyles
The Role of Ideas in the Civil Rights South
Conversations with Clarence Major
Collected interviews that show how the mind of an enormously talented and multifaceted artist works while conveying a sense of the generosity and optimism that keep him experimenting and learning
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
Interviews with Betty Friedan
Thirty-six years of interviews with the “Mother of Modern Feminism.”
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