University Press Of Mississippi imprint: 979 books
Louisiana Rambles
Exploring America's Cajun and Creole Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
After Hurricane Katrina laid bare the fragility and environmental peril of south Louisiana, author Ian McNulty set out on a series of daytrips to delve into the area's diverse cultural landscapes. He explored communities staked up and down the Mississippi River, nestled into the teeming bayous, braced...
Teche
A History of Louisiana's Most Famous Bayou
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Recipient of a 2017 Book of the Year Award presented by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Shane K. Bernard's Teche examines this legendary waterway of the American Deep South. Bernard delves into the bayou's geologic formation as a vestige of the Mississippi and Red Rivers, its prehistoric...
Shelby Foote
Novelist and Historian
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Called the greatest Civil War historian, Shelby Foote began his career as a novelist whose powerful works of fiction rose out of his closeness to life and culture in his native region, the Mississippi Delta country. Later in his career he transformed modern historical prose by his keen sense of the novel....
Bright Fields
The Mastery of Marie Hull
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Bright Fields is a comprehensive and deeply intimate exploration of the life and work of Mississippi-born artist Marie Hull (1890-1980). Her paintings reflect a nine-decade journey of search, thought, and growth. She produced some of the most memorable and iconic works ever created by a southern artist....
by Hodding Carter, Oliver Emmerich
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
On Saturday, September 5, 1964, the family of Albert W. "Red" Heffner Jr., a successful insurance agent, left their house at 202 Shannon Drive in McComb, Mississippi, where they had lived for ten years. They never returned. In the eyes of neighbors, their unforgiveable sin was to have spoken...
Tupelo Man
The Life and Times of George McLean, a Most Peculiar Newspaper Publisher
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
In 1924, George McLean, an Ole Miss sophomore and the spoiled son of a judge, attended a YMCA student mission conference whose free-thinking organizers aimed to change the world. They changed George McLean's. But not instantly. As vividly recounted in the first biography of this significant...
The Possible South
Documentary Film and the Limitations of Biraciality
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Using cultural theory, author R. Bruce Brasell investigates issues surrounding the discursive presentation of the American South as biracial and explores its manifestation in documentary films, including such works as Tell about the South, bro•ken/ground, and Family Name. After considering the emergence...
Reading Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom!
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
Absalom, Absalom! has long been regarded as one of William Faulkner's most difficult, dense, and multilayered novels. It is, on one level, the story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi...
Mule Trader
Ray Lum's Tales of Horses, Mules, and Men
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Readers captivated by this book will be happy that Bill Ferris found Ray Lum and that he thought to turn on a tape recorder. Lum (1891-1977) was a mule skinner, a livestock trader, an auctioneer, and an American original.
This delightful book, first published in 1992 as You Live and Learn....
Strangers on Their Native Soil
Opposition to United States' Governance in Louisiana's Orleans Territory, 1803-1809
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
After the United States purchased Louisiana, many inhabitants of the new American territory believed that Louisiana would quickly be incorporated into the Union and that they would soon enjoy rights as citizens. In March of 1804, however, Congress passed the Act for the Organization of Orleans Territory,...
Campus Traditions
Folklore from the Old-Time College to the Modern Mega-University
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
From their beginnings, campuses emerged as hotbeds of traditions and folklore. American college students inhabit a culture with its own slang, stories, humor, beliefs, rituals, and pranks. Simon J. Bronner takes a long, engaging look at American campus life and how it is shaped by students and at...
Voodoo Queen
The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2004
Each year, thousands of pilgrims visit the celebrated New Orleans tomb where Marie Laveau is said to lie. They seek her favors or fear her lingering influence. Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau is the first study of the Laveaus, mother and daughter of the same name. Both were legendary...
Of Times and Race
Essays Inspired by John F. Marszalek
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Of Times and Race contains eight essays on African American history from the Jacksonian era through the early twentieth century. Taken together, these essays, inspired by noted scholar John F. Marszalek, demonstrate the many nuances of African Americans' struggle to grasp freedom, respect, assimilation,...
The Nominee
A Political and Spiritual Journey
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
President George W. Bush nominated Leslie H. Southwick in 2007 to the federal appeals court, Fifth Circuit, based in New Orleans. Initially, Southwick seemed a consensus nominee. Just days before his hearing, though, a progressive advocacy group distributed the results of research it had conducted...