Jeanie Thompson’s The Myth of Water
November 19, 2015
After we distributed a link to our Spring 2016 catalog on Monday (click here), we received a number of comments and questions about the “buzz” around a book of poetry… READ MORE
November 19, 2015
After we distributed a link to our Spring 2016 catalog on Monday (click here), we received a number of comments and questions about the “buzz” around a book of poetry… READ MORE
November 10, 2015
Florida governor Reubin Askew memorably characterized a leader as “someone who cares enough to tell the people not merely what they want to hear, but what they need to know.”… READ MORE
November 6, 2015
In Bound to Respect: Antebellum Narratives of Black Imprisonment, Servitude, and Bondage, 1816-1861, Keith Michael Green examines key texts that illuminate forms of black bondage and captivity that existed within… READ MORE
October 28, 2015
For nearly 200 million years, Earth has been occupied by reptiles—a lineage of terrestrial vertebrates that includes some, like birds, that have invaded the aerial environment, and others, like turtles,… READ MORE
October 26, 2015
This week we said an unexpected goodbye to Glenn Feldman, the coeditor of UAP’s “Modern South” series and the author or editor of six UAP titles, including Before Brown; Politics, Society, and… READ MORE
October 23, 2015
In The Ecology of Modernism, Joshua Schuster examines the relationships of key modernist writers, poets, and musicians to nature, industrial development, and pollution. He posits that the curious failure of… READ MORE
October 16, 2015
Just in time for the fall reading season, we’re excited to release our 2015 new book catalogs in digital format. At issuu.com, you can scroll through our two biannual catalogs from 2015…. READ MORE
October 8, 2015
For as long as Mississippi has existed (and then some), flocks of phantoms have haunted the mortal inhabitants of the Magnolia State. In Thirteen Mississippi Ghosts and Jeffrey, best-selling folklorist… READ MORE
October 1, 2015
In Visions of the Black Belt, Robin McDonald and Valerie Pope Burnes offer a richly illustrated tour of the Black Belt, the fertile arc that represents the cultural efflorescence of… READ MORE
September 29, 2015
The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941-1942 sheds new light on the little-known historical events surrounding the creation, administration, and liquidation of the Kishinev (Chisinau) ghetto during the first months following the Axis… READ MORE