✨ CHOICE praises A TONE PARALLEL TO DUKE ELLINGTON as “a welcome addition to Ellington literature.” Jack Chambers offers a “tone parallel” to the great composer’s life, with deep looks at SUCH SWEET THUNDER, THE RIVER, and more—plus playlists for every chapter. 🔗 buff.ly/vqK4Vz9 #DukeEllington

Mississippi’s public education system was born in Reconstruction. In RECONSTRUCTION IN MISSISSIPPI, 1862–1877, Jere Nash reveals how leaders built schools and shaped the framework we know today. #Reconstruction #MississippiEducation #HeritageOfMississippi #UPMississippi

🎶 A legacy in every note. FIDDLING IS MY JOY uncovers the rich history of African American fiddling and the players whose music carried communities through generations. 📖 Now available—add this soundtrack of history to your shelf. buff.ly/XlBdIny #FiddlingIsMyJoy #BlackMusicHistory #UPMississippi

The weekend is here—time for a bold read. Explore the life of Dame Dianna Rigg in ONE TOUGH DAME by Herbie J Pilato, covering her iconic roles in THE AVENGERS, ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE, and GAME OF THRONES. buff.ly/sfRm3rT #DianaRigg #OneToughDame #ClassicHollywood #WeekendReads

✨ Honoring the birthday of Judge William Benson Bryant Sr. (1911–2005)—a trailblazer whose legal career shaped Supreme Court precedent and inspired generations. 📚 Discover his story in Tonya Bolden’s SOUL OF THE COURT. buff.ly/8koOeqY #WilliamBryant #SoulOfTheCourt #CivilRightsHistory .

✨ Collector Floyd Sulser’s Eudora Welty collection has been gifted to the UM Archives & Special Collections. The donation is honored through UPM’s Critical Perspectives on Eudora Welty series—celebrating & preserving Welty’s legacy. 📚 Next book: TO ABSENT FRIENDS #EudoraWelty #WeltyStudies

✨ Happy Birthday to Lauren Bacall—Hollywood’s Queen of Cool. 📚 Pre-order LAUREN BACALL: THE QUEEN OF COOL by Anthony Uzarowski and celebrate her timeless style and legendary career. 🔗 buff.ly/Sij93Es #LaurenBacall #TheQueenOfCool #HollywoodLegends #UPMississippi

⚡ Discover the writer who turned UNCANNY X-MEN into a worldwide phenomenon. CHRIS CLAREMONT by J. Andrew Deman celebrates Marvel’s longest-running author and his groundbreaking heroes. 🔗 buff.ly/Faw6VcK #ChrisClaremont #XMen #MarvelComics #ComicsHistory #UPMississippi

📚💙 Huge thanks to all who made the Mississippi Book Festival such a success—our authors, readers & shoppers on Bookseller’s Row, and the festival organizers. Your support keeps our literary community vibrant! #MSBookFest #UPMississippi #BooksellersRow #LiteraryLawnParty

📚✨ Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept 15–Oct 15) Discover 5 UPM books that celebrate Latinx culture, identity, and creativity. #HispanicHeritageMonth #UPMississippi #LatinxVoices

✨ What’s the first book that changed how you saw history? For many readers, it was Mildred D. Taylor’s ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY. 📚 SONG OF THE LAND honors Taylor’s legacy in African American children’s literature and beyond. #SongoftheLand #MildredDTaylor #UPMississippi #BooksMatter

📖✨ The Mississippi Book Festival is today! We’re on Bookseller’s Row — stop by the UPM table and say hi! #MSBookFest #UPMississippi #BooksellersRow

“It is high time Diana’s full story was told… Redmond honors her as an actress.” —Laura Wagner TOO FAST, TOO SHORT by Jennifer Ann Redmond. 📘 Learn more: buff.ly/9JCqYDL #DianaBarrymore #ClassicHollywood #Biography #HollywoodLegendsSeries

📸✨ HOMETOWN MISSISSIPPI by Melody Golding celebrates thirty towns across the state with photography + reflections from Mississippians, including Morgan Freeman and Marty Stuart. 📚 Available Now: buff.ly/Ss6xT1C #HometownMississippi #UPMississippi #MississippiStories

We’re always on the hunt for interns! For more information, including how to apply, visit our website at buff.ly/7zMhLav.

Proverbs are still wisdom’s global currency. In WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS, Wolfgang Mieder maps how sayings move through American life, politics, literature, and culture—and why they endure. 📘https://buff.ly/7jjPBG6 #Proverbs #Folklore #Language #CulturalHistory #UPMBooks

🎶 Chris Goertzen’s ECK ROBERTSON AT THE CROSSROADS OF AMERICAN FIDDLING explores the life and legacy of a true American music pioneer. ✨ Available now.https://buff.ly/b846tcF #EckRobertson #AmericanFiddling #UPMississippi #MusicHistory

🔥 Highly recommended! That’s the verdict from SOUL BAG MAGAZINE (France) on WICHITA BLUES: MUSIC IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY. A vital look at Black music history in Wichita—now getting global praise. 📚 Read the review: buff.ly/45Uf4lU #WichitaBlues #BluesHistory #SoulBagMagazine

🌍📚 Happy International Literacy Day! LITERACY IN A LONG BLUES NOTE reveals how Black women writers and blues singers used both literature and music as literacy practices to resist Jim Crow. #InternationalLiteracyDay #UPMississippi #BooksMatter #BluesHistory

📖✨ It’s National Buy a Book Day! Books change lives. Today, add something new to your shelf and support authors who keep our stories alive. :https://buff.ly/tLxu9YB #NationalBuyABookDay #UPMississippi #BooksMatter e book:

📚✨ Today is National Read a Book Day! Swipe through our 5 Books to Read This Fall and discover new voices in music, comics, civil rights, and Mississippi storytelling. #NationalReadABookDay #UPMississippi #FallReading

🍷 Happy National Chianti Day! Celebrate with Di Rushing’s memoir, THE DELTA IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR — a story of Mississippi’s first winery, its success, and the resilience that followed its downfall. 📖 A tale as layered as a fine vintage. buff.ly/4l3rvoR #NationalChiantiDay #WineHistory #Memoir

FOREWORD REVIEWS calls Lawrence Wells’s GHOSTWRITER “a mix of memoir with literary criticism” that dives into the Shakespeare authorship debate through the lens of a skeptic paired with a staunch believer. 📖 An unforgettable memoir of obsession, history, and literary intrigue. buff.ly/Gdj7qhC

FOREWARD REVIEWS calls Lawrence Wells’s GHOSTWRITER “a mix of memoir with literary criticism” that dives into the Shakespeare authorship debate through the lens of a skeptic paired with a staunch believer. 📖 An unforgettable memoir of obsession, history, and literary intrigue. buff.ly/Gdj7qhC

We're thrilled to participate in JSTOR's new Publisher Collections program! Read the announcement here: buff.ly/Ysxao29

Today is Vietnam’s Independence Day. We spotlight CROSSING THE PASS OF CLOUDS, a book that explores Vietnam’s history, culture, and voices with depth and artistry. buff.ly/abplyAf #VietnamIndependenceDay #CrossingThePassOfClouds #UPMississippi

Today is Return to Hogwarts Day! 🚂 Explore UPM’s books on Harry Potter—academic, reflective, and fun—offering a range of perspectives from research to fandom. #ReturnToHogwartsDay #HarryPotterStudies #UPMississippi

Labor takes many forms—political, creative, cultural, military. On Labor Day, we honor the resilience of workers and storytellers who shaped our history. 📚 Swipe through our Reading List to explore more. #LaborDay #UPMississippi #WorkersVoices

Happy We Love Memoirs Day! 📚 Memoirs remind us how personal stories shape collective history. What’s your favorite memoir? buff.ly/68aIbsk #WeLoveMemoirsDay #UPMississippi #Memoir

From stolen land to the fight for voting rights—Holmes County, Mississippi, has been at the center of America’s struggle for justice. BORROWED LAND, STOLEN LABOR, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT chronicles the farmers, church leaders, and families who changed history. 📖 Learn their story : buff.ly/TPbmR6K

Remembering Hurricane Katrina and honoring Mississippi’s resilience. 📸 See HURRICANE KATRINA: MISSISSIPPI REMEMBERS – Photographs by Melody Golding, on view at the Two Mississippi Museums through November 7, 2025. buff.ly/Xll9qDH #HurricaneKatrina #KATRINA #MelodyGolding #MississippiRemembers

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. We remember the devastation, honor survivors, and reflect on resilience. 📚 Explore our Hurricane Katrina Reading List. Ebooks are priced at $8.29 across major vendors in remembrance. 🔗 buff.ly/ihZjhSm #HurricaneKatrina #ReadingList

Remembering Emmett Till, whose death in 1955 became a catalyst for the civil rights movement. His story must never be forgotten. #EmmettTill #CivilRightsHistory #NeverForget #UPMississippi

📚 + 🎶 = the sound of history. Grammy-winner @DomFlemons curated a 50-track playlist to accompany the book FIDDLING IS MY JOY. From the Mississippi Sheiks to Rhiannon Giddens, this is the story of Black fiddling—past, present, and future. 👉 Listen here: buff.ly/8DQXMDo FiddlingIsMyJoy #RootsMusic

In the shadow of a legend—but never in the background. The untold story of Frank Sinatra, Jr. is here. 🎶 ✨ Pre-order now: buff.ly/BYqmcv4 #LetMeBeFrank #FrankSinatraJr #MusicHistory #AmericanMadeMusic #JazzHistory #BehindTheMusic

Today is National Dog Day! 🐶 Here’s to the dogs who curl up by our side, keep watch on the porch, and make our stories whole. #NationalDogDay #UPMississippi #DogsOfUPM

Today is National Women’s Equality Day. We highlight A SEAT AT THE TABLE, which centers Black women intellectuals whose ideas have shaped U.S. history and culture—voices too often left out of the record. . buff.ly/x70Pxs2 #WomensEqualityDay #ASeatAtTheTable #UPMississippi #HistoryMatters

Two UPM titles are finalists for the 2025 ARSC Awards! 🎉 🎸 THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF BOOKER "BUKKA" WHITE by David W. Johnson 🎙️ HANNA-BARBERA, THE RECORDED HISTORY by Greg Ehrbar Winners announced May 2026 at ARSC’s 60th Annual Conference in Memphis! #ARSC2025 #BukkaWhite #HannaBarbera #SoundResearch

“Captivating.” - BLUEGRASS UNLIMITED Jack Bernhardt’s BLUEGRASS GOSPEL is a heartfelt ride through the lives of Jerry & Tammy Sullivan—touring churches, recovering from tragedy, and singing their way through the South. buff.ly/HkGK6tr #BluegrassGospel #SullivanFamily #MusicMemoir #BookReview

The first-ever collection of interviews with Steve McQueen — Oscar-winning filmmaker and visionary artist. 📚 Available Now: buff.ly/pNuPQcI #FilmHistory #SteveMcQueen #Cinema

🏆 Corey J. Miles’s VIBE: THE SOUND AND FEELING OF BLACK LIFE IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH has won the 2025 IASPM Book Prize! A powerful look at how Black artists in North Carolina use “vibe” to reshape ideas of the South. #VIBE #IASPM #CoreyMiles #UPMississippi

Pre-order LAUREN BACALL: THE QUEEN OF COOL now—an in-depth look at one of Hollywood’s most iconic women. buff.ly/6C2NELo #LaurenBacall #HollywoodLegends #BooksOfBluesky #UPMississippi

Honored to see our author, Melody Golding, on WLBT talking about the new exhibit HURRICANE KATRINA: MISSISSIPPI REMEMBERS at the Two Mississippi Museums. Her work captures resilience and hope. buff.ly/Ol0B0IN #MelodyGolding #HURRICANEKATRINA #HOMETOWNMISSISSIPPI #Community

Art as activism. 🎨 COMICS OF THE ANTHROPOCENE shows how comics tackle climate issues. 📚 Available now:https://buff.ly/peqMlaD #ComicsStudies

We look at medical history with Thomas Helling as we discuss his new book _Sickly Vapors: Disease and Doctoring in the Old South_ @upmississippi.bsky.social Southerners thought of their region as different, which impacted medicine. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s... open.spotify.com/episode/1ozM...

☀️ Summer may be coming to a close, but we're not ready to take our toes out of the sand just yet! 😎 What books have been your go-to beach reads? 🌴

It’s #NationalNonprofitDay and we’re celebrating the impact of independent publishing. @UPMississippi is proud to be Mississippi’s only nonprofit scholarly press. If our books have mattered to you, consider supporting the mission: buff.ly/tN7MrJq #SupportUniversityPresses #BooksOfBluesky

Today marks the anniversary of Elvis Presley’s passing in 1977. Elaine Dundy’s ELVIS AND GLADYS explores the moving story of the King’s early years—and the fierce love of his mother that shaped him. 📚 A Southern icon, remembered. #ElvisPresley #UPMississippi #RockAndRollHistory #BooksOfBluesky

Feeling Lucky? 🍀 Shop our Lucky Summer Sale August 6–15 for a 50% discount on all titles, including LUCKY DOGS by Jerry E. Strahan! buff.ly/7M0FjmB Purchases made during the sale period will be automatically entered for a chance to win SIX FREE UPM TITLES of the winner’s choice!* #Sale

Shop our Lucky Summer Sale August 6–15 for a 50% discount on all titles, including DOUBLE CROSSED by Frederick W. Gooding Jr. buff.ly/dtjPTns Purchases made during the sale period will be automatically entered for a chance to win SIX FREE UPM TITLES of the winner’s choice! #Sale #LuckySummer