August 17, 2018
I think often about one Christmas Eve in childhood when my father came down the stairs, looking for my mother. He was drunk, as usual, and calling for her. She had fled… READ MORE
August 14, 2018
As in other efforts to integrate civic institutions in the 1950s and 1960s, the determination of local activists won the battle against segregation in libraries. In particular, the willingness of… READ MORE
August 3, 2018
July marked a significant transition at the Press with the retirement of former director, MaryKatherine Callaway. As we surge into a new, exciting era of scholarly publishing at LSU, we… READ MORE
July 20, 2018
A few years ago, after publishing two books of poems grounded in my personal experiences as a middle-class American woman, I found myself enmeshed in the 18th century, among seafaring… READ MORE
July 13, 2018
The academic study of the British public’s attitude toward the American Civil War began almost a century ago with the publication of Ephraim Douglass Adams’s Great Britain and the American… READ MORE
July 9, 2018
This week marks a significant transition as the staff of LSU Press and The Southern Review said goodbye to former director MaryKatherine Callaway. Embarking upon her retirement after fifteen years… READ MORE
June 29, 2018
As we settle into summer, we wanted to share some recent news and publicity from LSU Press! Freedom’s Dance is heating up with a New Orleans summer event lineup that… READ MORE
June 22, 2018
The name of the American poet Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) is not as familiar as other poets of his generation like Robert Frost and E.E. Cummings. He’s best known, not just… READ MORE
June 15, 2018
Readers may be familiar with the “Lost Cause” narrative of the Civil War, wherein white southerners methodically mythologized the Civil War as a virtuous stand against federal interference into the… READ MORE
June 8, 2018
We are thrilled to announce that Andrew Lang’s In the Wake of War: Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War America has won the 2018 Tom Watson Brown Book Award! The Society… READ MORE