November 15, 2018
LSU Press is pleased to announce that James D. Wilson, Jr., will join our staff as Marketing and Sales Manager for LSUP and The Southern Review, beginning December 17th, 2018…. READ MORE
November 13, 2018
On November 6th, Louisiana voted on an amendment that would bring an end to a law that allowed criminal convictions to be brought in by non-unanimous juries. As I wrote… READ MORE
October 12, 2018
Having written extensively in To Face Down Dixie about the involvement of South Carolina’s senators in the Supreme Court nomination process, I observed with interest the reaction to Lindsey Graham’s… READ MORE
September 28, 2018
Fall always brings a flurry of exciting news and publicity. This month, Pistols and Politics by Samuel C. Hyde won the 2018 Michael V.R. Thomason Book Award from the Gulf South… READ MORE
September 21, 2018
My friend Michael O’Brien, among whose books is a 1400-page study of antebellum intellectual life, once teasingly asked me when I was going to stop writing “fluff.” I don’t remember… READ MORE
September 14, 2018
American Indians in Early New Orleans is very much the result of learning something that I should have already known. Like far too many people of my generation—and regrettably of… READ MORE
September 7, 2018
Though it is romantic to imagine that poems appear out of the ether, more often than not, when we speak to our poets about craft, they mention the many writers… READ MORE
August 31, 2018
The beginning of Fall semester always brings a flurry of exciting news and publicity. This month, Theodore Roosevelt’s Ghost by Michael Patrick Cullinane won the Theodore Roosevelt Association Book Prize! And… READ MORE
August 27, 2018
Louisiana State University Press is seeking a Marketing and Sales Manager to establish the strategic direction and vision for all marketing and sales aspects of the LSU Press and The… READ MORE
August 24, 2018
This summer, we asked Howard Philips Smith and Frank Perez, authors of Southern Decadence in New Orleans, to suggest some informative books on the culture and history of the New… READ MORE