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The University of Missouri Press was founded in 1958 by William Peden, writer and dedicated member of Missouri's English Department faculty. The press has now grown to publish more than 50 titles per year in the areas of American and European history, including intellectual history and biography; African American studies; women's studies; American, British, and Latin American literary criticism; journalism; political science, particularly philosophy and ethics; art history; regional studies of the American Heartland; short fiction; and creative nonfiction.
Other premier scholars and writers published by the University of Missouri Press include Rowland Berthoff, Cleanth Brooks, Bruce Clayton, Noble Cunningham, Henry Steele Commager, Eugene Davidson, Drew Gilpin Faust, Eugene D. Genovese, George Garrett, Mary Lago, Naomi Lebowitz, John Lukacs, Andrew Lytle, George F. Kennan, Louis Martz, Heather Ross Miller, Howard Nemerov, Amos Perlmutter, Elena Poniatowska, John Shelton Reed, Merton M. Sealts Jr., Glenn Tinder, Robert C. Tucker, Eric Voegelin, and Gordon Weaver. But the press is also home to numerous previously unpublished young scholars who will be contributing to the scholarly debates and discoveries of the future.
Beverly Jarrett serves as Director and Editor-in-Chief.
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