Award Winning LSU Press Books and Authors

2008

The Animal Girl: Two Novellas and Three Stories by John Fulton
Notable Books of 2007 List (The Story Prize)

Amber Necklace from Gdansk: Poems by Linda Nemec Foster
Creative Arts Award (Polish American Historical Association)

Texas Terror: The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South by Donald E. Reynolds
Kate Broocks Bates Award (Texas State Historical Association)

Troubled Commemoration: The American Civil War Centennial, 1961–1965 by Robert J. Cook
Lincoln Prize Finalist (Gettysburg College)

2007

America's Wetlands: Louisiana's Vanishing Coast text by Mike Dunne & photos by Bevil Knapp
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title (CHOICE Magazine)

Black Shawl: Poems / Catching Light: Poems / Coming To Rest: Poems / Wildwood Flower: Poems
by Kathryn Stripling Byer
Hanes Award for Poetry for her body of work (Fellowship of Southern Writers)

City Adrift: New Orleans Before and After Katrina by Center for Public Integrity
Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Publication Award Finalist (Urban Communication Foundation)

Emancipating New York: The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777–1827 by David N. Gellman
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title (CHOICE Magazine)

The End of Dreams: Poems by Floyd Skloot
Oregon Book Awards Finalist (Literary Arts) and
Paterson Poetry Prize Finalist (Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College)

The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems by David Kirby
National Book Award Finalist for Poetry (National Book Foundation)
Gold Medal in Poetry from the Florida Book Awards (Florida State University Program in American & Florida Studies)

If We Must Die: Shipboard Insurrections in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade by Eric Robert Taylor
U. S. Maritime History Category Book Award, Honorable Mention (North American Society for Oceanic History)

In the Country of Hearts: Journeys in the Art of Medicine / Music from Apartment 8: New and Selected Poems /
Renaming The Streets: Poems / The Smell of Matches: Poems / Where Water Begins: New Poems and Prose

by John H. Stone
Induction into the Georgia Writers' Hall of Fame for his body of work (University of Georgia Libraries)

Kentucky Justice, Southern Honor, and American Manhood: Understanding the Life and Death of Richard Reid
by James C. Klotter
Governor's Award (Kentucky Historical Society)

Lincoln's Resolute Unionist: Hamilton Gamble, Dred Scott Dissenter and Missouri's Civil War Governor by Dennis K. Boman
Eagleton-Waters Book Award (Missouri State Historical Society)

A Maryland Bride in the Deep South: The Civil War Diary of Priscilla Bond by Kimberly Harrison
Founder's Award (Museum of the Confederacy)

The Memory of Gills: Poems by Catherine Carter
Roanoke-Chowan Award (North Carolina Literary & Historical Association)

Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790–1860 by Tom Downey
George C. Rogers, Jr. Book Award Finalist (South Carolina Historical Society) and
Templeton Enterprise Award, 3rd place (Intercollegiate Studies Institute)

Portrait of the Artist as a White Pig: Poems by Jane Gentry
Kentucky Literary Awards Finalist (Southern Kentucky Book Fest)

Power and Progress: American National Identity, the War of 1898, and the Rise of American Imperialism by Paul T. McCartney
Henry Paolucci/Walter Bagehot Award Finalist (Intercollegiate Studies Institute)

The Realist Tradition and Contemporary International Relations by W. David Clinton
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title (CHOICE Magazine)

Strange Kin: Ireland and the American South by Kieran Quinlan
Star Of The South (Irish America Magazine)

A Talent For Living: Josephine Pinckney and the Charleston Literary Tradition by Barbara L. Bellows
George C. Rogers, Jr. Book Award Finalist (South Carolina Historical Society)

2006

An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature by Craig E. Colten
John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize (Association of American Geographers) and
Fred B. Kniffen Award (Pioneer America Society)

Days of Glory: The Army of the Cumberland, 1861-1865 by Larry J. Daniel
Albert Castel Book Award, Honorable Mention (Kalamazoo Civil War Round Table)

Gather at the River: Notes from the Post-Millenial South by Hal Crowther
National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Finalist (National Book Critics Circle)

Late Wife: Poems by Claudia Emerson
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (Pulitzer Prize at Columbia University)

Habitat: New and Selected Poems, 1965-2005 by Brendan Galvin
Massachusetts Book Awards, Honor Book Award for Poetry (Massachusetts Center for the Book)

Ocean Effects / Place Keepers / Sky and Island Light / Strength of a Named Thing / Wampanoag Traveler
by Brenden Galvin
Aiken Taylor Award for his body of work (The Sewanee Review)

Moses Levy of Florida: Jewish Utopian and Antebellum Reformer by C.S. Monoco
Presidential Award of Distinction (Florida Historical Society)

New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and Transformation of the Crescent City by J. Mark Souther
Kemper and Leila Williams Book Prize (Historic New Orleans Collection)

Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898 by Edward Blum
Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship (George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of Civil War at Shepherd College)

Tapping the Pines: The Naval Stores Industry in the American South by Robert B. Outland, III
Charles A. Weyerhauser Award (Forest History Society)

The Cachoeira Tales and Other Poems by Marilyn Nelson
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist (Los Angeles Times)

The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820-1860 by Richrd Follett
Louisiana Literary Award (Louisiana Library Association) and
Frederick Douglass Award Finalist (Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition)

The White House Looks South: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson by William Leuchtenburg
Award for Excellence in Professional and Scholarly Publishing (Association of American Publishers)

While in the Hands of the Enemy: Military Prisons of the Civil War by Charles W. Sanders, Jr
Jefferson Davis Award (Museum of the Confederacy)