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Louisiana's premier academic publisher, established in 1935. #lsupress

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Our annual holiday sale is now live!! Shop our entire catalog and get 40% off your order with discount code LSU40OFF. Check out our landing page here: bit.ly/holidaysale2026
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Take a look inside James Heath's new book, “Deep South Democrats: Paradoxical Politics in the Age of Civil Rights.” Get your copy of “Deep South Democrats” here: bit.ly/deepsouthdemocrats
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For @aupresses #universitypressweek we want to highlight some titles from this year’s University Press Week Reading List! If you like these books from WVU Press, you may also like these titles from @KentuckyPress / @Harvard_Ed_Pub / @lsupress / @northwesternup / @AZpress 📖Black Appalachia: Race, Place, and Identity / Edited by Cicero M. Fain III, Sheena Harris Hayes, Wilburn Hayden Jr. and William H. Turner 📖Schooling Against the Prison: Education, Imagination, and the Promise of Abolition / Marc Lamont Hill 📖Offshore Oildom: America’s Energy Expansion into the Ocean / Tyler Priest 📖Every Place on the Map is Disabled: Poems and Essays / Edited by Camisha L. Jones, Michael Northen, Naomi Ortiz and Travis Chi Wing Lau 📖This Music: Record of a Poet Becoming / Janice Gould See less
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Shirley Rose Gray’s highly personal, episodic memoir chronicles her World War II experiences with a USO show in the Pacific Theater during the summer of 1945. It's out today. Get your copy here: bit.ly/shirleyrosegray
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“Shades of Complicity,” out today, explores one family’s involvement with the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan. Michael W. Fitzgerald examines the varying roles of family members as terrorists, supporters, and observers. Get your copy here: bit.ly/shadesofcomplicity
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“Haven’t we been through this? How is it that we are back here?” For our latest blog post, Donna E. Reeves discusses the legacies of cultural symbols like Confederate statues and “Huckleberry Finn,” and what they mean to different groups. Read it here: bit.ly/4sInWdb
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#UPWeek’s Environment Reading List sheds light on our planet's challenges and the research fuelling solutions. Explore these titles from @osupress and @lsupress alongside others here: buff.ly/a4w4Rkg
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We were happy to meet one of the @lsupress editors of Small Screen Souths and Record Document Archive at our @SAtlanticMLA tables this morning. #samla2026
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Out today: “Natchitoches, Louisiana, 1840–1865: A Creole Community in the Slave South,” by Kathleen M. Byrd. The sequel to Byrd’s “Natchitoches, Louisiana, 1803–1840,” this volume follows Natchitoches from the 1840s to the Civil War. Get your copy here: bit.ly/natcla
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Our Spring 2027 catalog cover reveal is here 🪾🌫️ The gorgeous catalog is live online, and all books are now available for pre-order! Check it out here: bit.ly/lsuspring27
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“[A] fine study in wartime leadership.” Emerging Civil War reviewed “Managing the Union Army: Scott, McClellan, Halleck & Grant as General-in-Chief,” the latest by Earl J. Hess. Check it out here: bit.ly/4ipcG1U
Book Review: Managing the Union Army: Scott, McClellan, Halleck & Grant as General-in-Chief -...

Book Review: Managing the Union Army: Scott, McClellan, Halleck & Grant as General-in-Chief -...

Managing the Union Army: Scott, McClellan, Halleck & Grant as General-in-Chief.  By Earl J. Hess. Baton Rouge: Louisianna State University Press, 2026. Hardcover, 468 pp. $55.95. Reviewed by Greg M....

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Happy #2026SHA! In preparation for the inaugural “Meet My Book” session tomorrow, November 7, we're highlighting all six LSUP authors participating in the session. Here's “American Populist: Huey Long of Louisiana,” by Thomas E. Patterson. 📘 bit.ly/americanpopulist
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Our booth at the #2026SHA in Atlanta. Come say hi!
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Thank you @LSUPress!! I'm so excited for this book to be out here in the world! Special thanks to my editor Rand Dotson and to my readers who moved Making Creole from manuscript to finished book swiftly and with real care. So grateful to have had them in my corner. 📚
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“A truly brilliant book.” —Kidada E. Williams Happy #pubday to “Making Creole,” by @DrNatMcPherson, a groundbreaking new narrative of Creole women’s resistance in early Jim Crow New Orleans. Get your copy here: bit.ly/makingcreole
The book cover of “Making Creole,” featuring a vintage photo of a group of Creole women and children in New Orleans, circa late nineteenth or early twentieth century. Image courtesy of Xavier University of Louisiana, Archives and Special Collections.

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And we're live! Please join us for a book talk with Roberta Brandes Gratz, author of “Fearless Philanthropy: Edith Rosenwald Stern’s Campaigns to Transform Lives in New Orleans.” The talk will be followed by a live Q&A. facebook.com/LSUPress/videos…
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Happy #2026SHA! In preparation for the inaugural “Meet My Book” session this Saturday, November 7, we're highlighting all six LSUP authors participating in the session. Here's Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel’s “Seeking Freedom in Indian Country.” 📘 bit.ly/seekingfreedom-lsup
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Here’s the latest in our Facebook Live series 🎤 On Thursday, November 5, Roberta Brandes Gratz will talk about her new book, “Fearless Philanthropy.” A live Q&A will follow! Register here: bit.ly/4e9imKT
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Francophones: Here's a great new review of “James Salter's “Pilot, Screenwriter, Novelist” in @Booksmag! 📘 bit.ly/meyerssalter
James Salter

James Salter

Biographer and critic Jeffrey Meyers knew the novelist James Salter (1925–2015) during the last decade of his life, visited him twice on Long Island, and r...

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Pilote de chasse durant la guerre de Corée, #JamesSalter a quitté l’armée pour se consacrer à l’écriture. Sa raison d’écrire ? « Parce que tout va disparaître. La seule chose qui restera, c’est ce qui est écrit. » books.actualitte.com/toutes-… #Booksletter #biographie @lsupress
Toutes les vies de James Salter

Toutes les vies de James Salter

Dans sa première vie, il était pilote de chasse pendant la guerre de Corée. Il quitta l’armée pour se consacrer entièrement à l’écriture. Il « maîtrise l’art de la phrase mieux que n’importe quel...

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“A truly brilliant book.” —Kidada E. Williams Happy #pubday to “Making Creole,” by @DrNatMcPherson, a groundbreaking new narrative of Creole women’s resistance in early Jim Crow New Orleans. Get your copy here: bit.ly/makingcreole
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In the days leading up to the SHA's Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA, we're highlighting all six LSUP authors participating in the inaugural “Meet My Book” session this Saturday, November 7! Here's Jody Baxter Noll's “The 1968 Florida Teachers' Strike.” 📗 bit.ly/1968teachersstrike
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