Publisher Profiles

LSU Press

Founded in 1935 and one of the oldest and largest university presses in the South, LSU Press has established itself as one of the nation's outstanding scholarly publishers and continues to garner national and international accolades, including four Pulitzer Prizes. For 75 years, LSU Press has published significant works of scholarship and books that celebrate Louisiana's and the South's history and culture. Over half of the books that have published by LSU Press remain in print around the world. LSU Press is also an active member of the Association of American University Presses and LSU Press director MaryKatherine Callaway serves at the 2011 AAUP President.

The sesquicentennial of the American Civil War has brought significant attention to LSU Press's academic and trade titles that explore the well-known people, places, and events of the Civil War. The commemoration has also inspired growing interest in a number of books that reveal the lesser known, but nonetheless equally fascinating, components of this tragic conflict.

In the Civil War title list of LSU Press readers can find a wide range of subject matter from the history of Civil War prisons in Benjamin Cloyd's Haunted by Atrocity to the forthcoming memoir of notable Civil War historian Michael Fellman in Views from the Dark Side of American History. Our Civil War titles represent winners of the OAH Avery O. Craven Award, Eagleton-Waters Book Award, Jefferson Davis Award, and Lincoln Prize Finalists.