Early Praise for Boone Biography
July 29, 2008
In a July 28 review, Publishers Weekly declared Meredith Mason Brown’s Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America (Sept.) to be “the most readable and balanced” as well as… READ MORE
Category: History
LSU Press author Larry Powell elected as SAH Fellow
April 29, 2008
Congratulations to LSU Press author Lawrence N. Powell, who was recently elected as a Fellow of the Society of American Historians. Fellows are chosen in recognition of the literary and… READ MORE
Candid Observations of Louisiana’s Earliest Missionary Nuns
May 14, 2007
In 1727, twelve nuns left France to establish a community of Ursuline nuns in New Orleans, the capital of the French colony of Louisiana. Their convent was the first in… READ MORE
National Praise for Williams and Mazzari
February 26, 2007
Miller Williams’s Making a Poem: Some Thoughts about Poetry and the People Who Write It, was featured in the Los Angeles Times and praised for his ability to convey how… READ MORE
LSU Press Congratulates Drew Gilpin Faust
February 21, 2007
On July 1, LSU Press author Drew Gilpin Faust will become the first woman president of Harvard University. The former professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania from 1976-2000… READ MORE