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Featured on our Instagram today: 'For Today,' by Carolyn Hembree! Check out our page for more photos and reviews of this fantastic poetry collection: bit.ly/lsupressinstag…

Buy For Today (LSU Press, 2024) to support the New Orleans Women & Children's Shelter in memory of Valda Smith. The next 10 Venmo purchases of the book will help unhoused women and children. My friend Valda ('V' in the book) was an educator and caregiver. $19.95 (free ship). Venmo: (at)Carolyn-Hembree-9

“Jesse Olsavsky's 'The Most Absolute Abolition' reveals that there is still much to learn about the abolitionist movement, and much to learn from it as well.'—Journal of Southern History: bit.ly/4dFr9Cu

We've updated our list of books we'd like to see reviewed The Adroit Journal.

Lots of keen stuff from Milkweed Editions, Graywolf Press, LSU Press, Black Lawrence Press, Coffee House Press, BOA Editions, New Directions, Ecco, and others. DM me if interested.

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BOOKNOTES: 'The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism' cwba.blogspot.com/2024/05/bookno… LSU Press

Forthcoming this October from LSU Press:

Slavery’s Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution, by Timothy Messer-Kruse. #twitterstorians #Blktwitterstorians #AmRev Sean Gallagher

'Metaphorically, [my book's] soundtrack [is] the Gulf South—our bodies of water, our street musicians, our rituals, and our conversations.'
Carolyn Hembree discusses her poetry collection For Today (@LSUPress, 2024)
Interview no. 481 at Speaking of Marvels

'Pokes through the underbrush to bring readers a fuller picture, both scientific and cultural, of this symbolic but understudied plant.'—Country Roads on 'Devoured: The Extraordinary Story of Kudzu, the Vine that Ate the South,' by Ayurella Horn-Muller: bit.ly/3WKayHv

'This book is a model of interweaving qualitative and quantitative evidence through an interdisciplinary approach and pushes scholars to consider the socio-emotional factors that undergirded specific policies.”—Journal of Southern History: bit.ly/3K596bo

'Skillfully weaves the shadow of mortality — our shared sentence — into an urgent reminder that we are still here, and vibrantly alive.'—TupeloQuarterly on 'The Sentence,' by Morri Creech! bit.ly/4beQLV4

New book alert! Coming in September. I’m stoked to have an essay on race and #CivilWar memory in #RDR2 , edited by James Hill “Trae” Welborn III Patrick Lewis from LSU Press.

Preorder is available here… I think your library needs one! #twitterstorians lsupress.org/9780807182598/…

Hemingway's Art of Revision: The Making of the Short Fiction by John Beall, new from LSU Press. The first three chapters discuss the influence of Hemingway's most important modernist mentors: Pound, Joyce and Stein.
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Exciting news! The page for PLAYING AT WAR: IDENTITY AND MEMORY IN CIVIL WAR VIDEO GAMES is now live and available for preorder. September 2024 publication date. LSU Press

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May (so far)! Thank you NOCCA and The Willow School for teaching For Today (LSU Press, 2024) and having me out to talk w/ your terrific students. Thanks to the women's book club members who read For Today. Thank you to Longue Vue House and Gardens for hosting Brad Richard @bradrichard.bsky.social and friends!

Check out this H-Net Reviews piece on 'Alabamians in Blue: Freedmen, Unionists, and the Civil War in the Cotton State,' by Christopher M. Rein! bit.ly/3UKSKJB

Anne Pierson Wiese joined WYSO's Book Nook segment to dicuss her new poetry collection, 'Which Way Was North.' Give it a listen! bit.ly/3yixKTg

My book The Beechers: America’s Most Influential Family is now available for pre-order with LSU Press with a brief description of the book and a few endorsements, including Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joan D. Hedrick.
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Please join us now on our Facebook page for a live event featuring Tomos Hughes! He will be discussing and answering questions about his new LSU Press book, 'America's Imagined Revolution: The Historical Novel of Reconstruction.' fb.watch/s64uL_tU3x/

May's 'On Poetry,' courtesy of Amanda Holmes Duffy (and featuring titles from LSU Press Farrar,Straus&Giroux Omnidawn Publishing): washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/on-po… 1/2