University Press Of Mississippi imprint: 979 books
Dick Waterman
A Life in Blues
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
Growing up in an affluent Jewish family in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Dick Waterman (b. 1935) was a shy, stuttering boy living a world away from the Mississippi Delta. Though he never heard blues music at home, he became one of the most influential figures in blues of the twentieth century.
A...
Deep South Dispatch
Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Former New York Times correspondent John N. Herbers (1923-2017), who covered the civil rights movement for more than a decade, has produced Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist, a compelling story of national and historical significance. Born in the South during a time of entrenched...
Confessions of an Undercover Agent
Adventures, Close Calls, and the Toll of a Double Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
This true story of an ex-Marine who fought crime as an undercover cop, a narcotics agent, and finally a federal prosecutor spans a decade of crime fighting and narrow escapes. Charlie Spillers dealt with a remarkable variety of career criminals, including heroin traffickers, safecrackers, burglars,...
Lost Plantation
The Rise and Fall of Seven Oaks
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2006
Along the fertile banks of the Mississippi River across from New Orleans, planter Camille Zeringue transformed a mediocre colonial plantation into a thriving gem of antebellum sugar production, complete with a columned mansion known as Seven Oaks. Under the moss-strewn oaks, the privileged master...
Susan Sontag
The Making of an Icon, Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This first biography of Susan Sontag (1933-2004) is now fully revised and updated, providing an even more intimate portrayal of the influential writer's life and career. The authors base this revision on Sontag's newly released private correspondence--including emails--and the letters and memoirs...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
In Film and Comic Books contributors analyze the problems of adapting one medium to another; the translation of comics aesthetics into film; audience expectations, reception, and reaction to comic book-based films; and the adaptation of films into comics. A wide range of comic/film adaptations...
The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader
The "Great Truth" about the "Lost Cause"
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Most Americans hold basic misconceptions about the Confederacy, the Civil War, and the actions of subsequent neo-Confederates. For example, two thirds of Americans--including most history teachers--think the Confederate States seceded for "states' rights." This error persists because most have never...
by Rudy H. Leverett
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2009
A maverick, unionist district in the heart of the Old South? A notorious county that seceded from the Confederacy? This is how Jones County, Mississippi, is known in myth and legend.
Since 1864 the legend has persisted. Differing versions give the name of this new nation as Republic of Jones,...
The Nominee
A Political and Spiritual Journey
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 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...
Father of the Comic Strip
Rodolphe Töpffer
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2007
Sixty years before the comics entered the American newspaper press, Rodolphe Töpffer of Geneva (1799-1846), schoolmaster, university professor, polemical journalist, art critic, landscape draftsman, and writer of fiction, travel tales, and social criticism, invented a new art form: the comic strip,...
Freedom Rider Diary
Smuggled Notes from Parchman Prison
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Arrested as a Freedom Rider in June of 1961, Carol Ruth Silver, a twenty-two-year-old recent college graduate originally from Massachusetts, spent the next forty days in Mississippi jail cells, including the Maximum Security Unit at the infamous Parchman Prison Farm. She chronicled the events and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Contributions by Ted Atkinson, Thadious M. Davis, Matthew Dischinger, Dotty Dye, Chiyuma Elliott, Doreen Fowler, Joseph Fruscione, T. Austin Graham, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Derrick Harriell, Lisa Hinrichsen, Randall Horton, George Hutchinson, Andrew B. Leiter, John Wharton Lowe, Jamaal May, Ben Robbins,...
We End in Joy
Memoirs of a First Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
We End in Joy: Memoirs of a First Daughter offers an extraordinary perspective on public life in an intimate account from the daughter of a highly controversial southern governor and a widely beloved first lady.Angela Jordan enjoyed a comfortable and quiet life in Vicksburg, the small southern...
Hazel Brannon Smith
The Female Crusading Scalawag
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Hazel Brannon Smith (1914-1994) stood out as a prominent white newspaper owner in Mississippi before, during, and after the civil rights movement. As early as the mid-1940s, she earned state and national headlines by fighting bootleggers and corrupt politicians. Her career was marked by a progressive...