Award Winning LSU Press Books and Authors
2009
The
Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil
War by Edward Bartlett Rugemer
Avery O. Craven Award (OAH)
Francis B. Simpkins Award (Southern
Historical Association)
Moroccan
Households in the World Economy: Labor and Inequality in a Berber
Village by David Crawford
Julian Steward Award (American
Anthropology Association)
Captives
and Voyagers: Black Migrants across the Eighteenth-Century British
Atlantic World by Alexander X. Byrd
Wesley-Logan Prize (American
Historical Association)
Brothels,
Depravity, and Abandoned Women by Judith Kelleher Schafer
Gulf South Historical Association Book Award (Gulf
South Historical Association)
Myself
Painting: Poems by Clarence Major
Paterson Poetry Prize Finalist (Poetry
Center at Passaic County CC)
Hazard
and Prospect: New and Selected Poems by Kelly Cherry
Poets' Prize Finalist
The
Fourth Ghost: White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930-1950
by Robert H. Brinkmeyer
The Warren-Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism (Robert
Penn Warren Center a WKU)
Frontiersman:
Daniel Boone and the Making of America by Meredith
Mason Brown
Spur Award for Best Biography (Western
Writers of America)
Molly
The Pony: A True Story by Pam Kaster
Henry Bergh Children’s Book Award in the Nonfiction Humane
Heroes (American
Societry for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals)
Recent Highlights
2008
The
Animal Girl: Two Novellas and Three Stories by John Fulton
Notable Books of 2007 List (The
Story Prize)
Patterson Fiction Prize Finalist (Poetry
Center at Passaic County Community College)
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)
Desire, Violence,
and Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter,
Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy by
Gary M. Ciuba
C. Hugh Holman Award (Society
for the Study of Southern Literature)
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)
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)
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)
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