Sean Michael Chick reviewed "A Desperate Fight: The Lives of Louisiana’s Confederate Soldiers," by Henry B. Motty, for Emerging Civil War: https://bit.ly/4hnQk0m

Book Review: A Desperate Fight: The Lives of Louisiana’s Confederate Soldiers - Emerging Civil War

  A Desperate Fight: The Lives of Louisiana’s Confederate Soldiers. By Henry B. Motty. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2026. Hardcover, 272 pp. $49.95. Reviewed by Sean Michael Chick Of all the Confederate states, Louisiana produced the most diverse units and, debatably, the most colorful ones. This has led to numerous unit studies, with […]

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Doug Graham explored the history that inspired "Death or Victory: The Louisiana Native Guard and the Black Military’s Significance in the Civil War,” by A.J. Cade, for TheAdvocate.com: https://bit.ly/4hmW3DG

Black soldiers in Louisiana faced enemies from both sides in the Civil War, author writes

The 1st Louisiana Native Guard was the first officially sanctioned all-Black regiment in the U.S. Army.

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Joyce Catol Oates fan? Check out our latest release in literary studies: "Like Hunger: Joyce Carol Oates and the Need to Believe," out today! https://bit.ly/like-hunger "Like Hunger" draws on works throughout Oates’s six-decade career to examine her characters' search for faith.

Check out the latest episode of The Slowdown, which features a poem from "Candy"! bit.ly/candypoems

Candy

Dan Albergotti’s Candy is a book steeped in sound and silence. Sound in the form of song, of chaotic cacophony, and of the drone (sometimes natural, someti...

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The Slowdown@slowdownshow.org · 4d ago

"Today's poem, which looks at the fragility of our planet, begins with two epigraphs," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social explains in today's encore episode. Read “Earth Shovel” by Dan Albergotti — from CANDY (@lsupress.bsky.social) — and our full episode transcript: https://bit.ly/46Q4ukO

Carin Peller-Semmens wrote a thorough review of "Fractured Freedoms" for the September issue of the American Historical Association's American Historical Review: https://bit.ly/4jlLIJd

"That kind of desire. That readiness for satisfaction. To be wrung out, my sodden heart, by any visible thing." Today on Poetry Daily: "Paestum," by Christopher Bakken, from his LSU Press collection, "Driving the Beast: Poems." 🖊️ https://poems.com/poem/paestum/

Paestum

arrowheads of swallows slicing a wind                 strong enough to set their wings on fire, but not the weather so much as the place itself,

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Thanks to Poetry Daily for featuring my poem "Paestum" today poems.com/poem/paestum...

Paestum

arrowheads of swallows slicing a wind                 strong enough to set their wings on fire, but not the weather so much as the place itself,

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In 1860, Lincoln won the presidency with less than 40% of the popular vote. How did he do it? That's the subject of "How Lincoln Won," a new book by political scientists Darin DeWitt and the late Thomas Schwartz. Get your copy here: https://bit.ly/howlincolnwon

Congrats to Bridget Bennett! "Antislavery in the Dissenting Atlantic" has won the American Studies Network Prize from the European Association for American Studies, and was awarded an honorable mention for the British Association for American Studies Book Prize: https://bit.ly/4AmbQKc

Robert Gudmestad appeared on Civil War Talk Radio to discuss "The Devil’s Own Purgatory." 🎤 Listen here: https://bit.ly/4xRO86l

“Nell, the remaining half of the team, stands by the grave and screams. The moot cry of pointless opposition, in opera it is usually soprano. At the first Olympics the athletes wrestled naked so nothing would be hidden.” —Rodney Jones, “For a long time after...” @lsupress.bsky.social

"[A] great reference book. . .critically important for our understanding of that army’s capabilities and its transformation." Emerging Civil War reviewed "Lee’s Army During the Overland Campaign," by Alfred C. Young, in honor of its paperback release. 🖊️ https://bit.ly/3UUntrA

Book Review: Lee’s Army During the Overland Campaign: A Numerical Study - Emerging Civil War

  Lee’s Army During the Overland Campaign: A Numerical Study. By Alfred C. Young. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2013. Paperback, 428 pp. $39.95. Reviewed by Bert Dunkerly Although it has been out (in hardback) for thirteen years, this is a great reference book that I pull off the shelf from time to time […]

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Ken Wells appeared on the Rainy Cajun podcast to discuss "Boudin," his LSU Press book that came out earlier this year. Tune in for boudin secrets, discussions of the home kitchens of Louisiana's boudin masters, and much more: https://bit.ly/46MD0fD

Happy #pubday to Greg Delanty and his macaw companion, Sweeney! "Sweeney Now," Delanty's new poetry collection, is both a riff on the Middle Irish poem Buile Shuibhne (Mad Sweeney) and an exploration of what it's like to be a deracinated person and poet today. 🦜 https://bit.ly/sweeneynow

Ecstatic to be part of this David Lynch anthology edited by John Wall Barger and forthcoming from @lsupress.bsky.social 🫀 lsupress.org/978080718850...

Fix Your Hearts or Die!

What happens when you ask contemporary poets to look into the cracked mirror of David Lynch’s work? Fix Your Hearts or Die! is an exuberant, eccentric coll...

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MNG - University Presses@mngupbooks.bsky.social · 4w ago

NEW IN STOCK - Illuminating important connections between theories about the relationship between humans and the built environment, Anker's provocative study provides new insight into a critical period in the evolution of environmental awareness. 📚️ buff.ly/mlur3UM @lsupress.bsky.social

Out today: "Carranza's Victory," a bold new interpretation of the Mexican Revolution by historian Douglas W. Richmond. Get your copy here: https://bit.ly/carranzasvictory

"Essential reading for students of the Texas frontier." From a new review of "Henry Eustace McCulloch: Texas Ranger, Legislator, Civil War General," in Emerging Civil War 🖊️ Read it here: https://bit.ly/4itQvIv

Book Review: Henry Eustace McCulloch: Texas Ranger, Legislator, Civil War General - Emerging Civil War

Henry Eustace McCulloch: Texas Ranger, Legislator, Civil War General. By David Paul Smith. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2026. Hardcover, 312 pp. $49.95. Reviewed by Jonathan Steplyk Students of the Civil War may recognize Benjamin McCulloch, the famed Texas Ranger who, as a Confederate general, was killed at the battle of Pea Ridge. Less […]

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What role did antebellum evangelicalism play in the development of the modern university? That's the subject of "The Great Communion of Scholars," Joel R. Illif's debut book, which is out today! Get your copy here: https://bit.ly/greatcommunion

RIP Wendell Berry 💜 1st slide: From "In Rain," anthologized in "Locales: Poems from the Fellowship of Southern Writers," edited by Fred Chappell (2003). 2nd slide: From "Reclaiming the American Farmer," by Mary Weaks-Baxter (2003).

"Lee's Army during the Overland Campaign," Alfred C. Young III's highly praised study of the 1864 Overland Campaign, is out in paperback today: https://bit.ly/lee-overland "Lee’s Army During the Petersburg Campaign" releases on 12/15. Pre-order a copy here: https://bit.ly/lee-petersburg

Happy #pubday to Joseph Packer and Ethan Stoneman! "Cypher Culture," out today, explores diverse media such as Shakespeare, Taylor Swift, The Dark Knight trilogy, and QAnon to help uncover the dynamics of fan culture and its political dimensions. 📕🔎 https://bit.ly/cypherculture

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Simeon Berry@simeonberry.bsky.social · last mo.

“The doctors gave her / Tolstoy and Veronal, seawater / injections and a Swiss room / tight as a coffin. She preferred // tarot, the luxury suites / at Ivres, and calligraphy, her / Celtic letters glowing red / as cinders.” —R. T. Smith, “Lucia” @lsupress.bsky.social

Our Facebook Live series is back from summer break! Sept 16: Vaudeville's Wildflower https://bit.ly/4cTuGOF Sept 17: How to Moth https://bit.ly/3UtKotA Sept 23: Daniel Tobin + Ryan Wilson https://bit.ly/46zjyTw Sept 30: A Fight for Visibility https://bit.ly/4hYYxsu

New review of "Offshore Oildom" in H-Net! 🖊️ https://ow.ly/NkUw50ZGcPr 📕 https://ow.ly/NbvA50ZGcPw

In our latest blog, Marielle Songy discusses the sourcing of specialty coffee by New Orleans coffee shops like Bearcat Cafe and PJ's Coffee. Read it here: https://ow.ly/7quv50ZG94k (And don’t forget to subscribe to get our monthly newsletter and blog sent directly to your inbox!)

We'll miss you, Dolly 💜 Quotes from "Southerners Acting Southern: On Celebrities and Their Star Personas in the Imagined South" (2025) and "The Tacky South" (2022).

Two new interviews featuring recent LSUP books: 🎤 Aram Goudsouzian interviewed Donna Reeves about "A Fight for Visibility" for Chapter 16: https://bit.ly/4wMUtiy 🎤 John Fea interviewed Marielle Songy about "Coffee Culture New Orleans" for The Way of Improvement Leads Home: https://bit.ly/4gk1aE5

The Author’s Corner with Marielle Songy

Marielle Songy is a freelance journalist and writer. This interview is based on her new book, Coffee Culture New Orleans (LSU Press, 2026). JF: What led you to write Coffee Culture New Orleans? MS:…

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Kevin M. Levin@civilwarmemory.bsky.social · last mo.

This looks like a must read. #CivilWarMemory

🌊🌊🌊 New on H-Oceans 🌊🌊🌊 Review from Christina Dunbar-Hester (@usc.edu) of _Offshore Oildom: America’s Energy Expansion into the Ocean_, by @tylerpriest.bsky.social (U of Iowa), 2026‪ @lsupress.bsky.social #oceans‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬Review avail @hnetreviews.bsky.social

H-Net Reviews@hnetreviews.bsky.social · last mo.

New book review: Dunbar-Hester on Priest, Tyler: _Offshore Oildom: America’s Energy Expansion into the Ocean_. Louisiana State University Press, 2026. Published by H-Oceans. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20159808