In 1993, Peter A. Coates's The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Controversy: Technology, Conservation, and the Frontier won the Western History Association's W. Turrentine Jackson Award; in 2006 Patricia D'Antonio's Founding Friends: Families, Staff, and Patients at the Friends Asylum in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia was named a Best Book by the American Journal of Nursing; in 2010 the Philip S. Klein Book Prize was awarded to Sarah Fatherly for Gentlewomen and Learned Ladies: Women and Elite Formation in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia; and in 2019, Ethel Waxham and J. David Love's book, edited by Frances Love Froidevaux and Barabra Love and entitled Life on Muskrat Creek, placed as a finalist in the Scholarly Nonfiction category of the Willa Literary Awards.
Award Winning Titles
Recent Praise for LUP Books
Gender, Poetry, and the Form of Thought in Later Medieval Literature, Edited by Jennifer Jahner and Ingrid Nelson
Review in the Journal of English and Germanic Philology:
Very much in the spirit of Robertson's many impacts on our field, this collection opens a range of fascinating apertures into the medieval literary world that promise to be useful, both to fellow scholars and in a variety of literature classrooms.
--Emily Houlik-Ritchey, Rice University
New Directions in Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature, Edited by Amy N. Vines and Lee Templeton
New Directions in Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature not only makes a fitting tribute to a beloved scholar and teacher; it constitutes a significant contribution to the field in its own right. The essays in this beautifully presented book will be essential reading for anyone interested in late-medieval vernacular theology and its reception, both in England and beyond.
--Nicholas Watson, professor of English, Harvard University
Placing Charlotte Smith, Edited by Elizabeth A. Dolan and Jacqueline M. Labbe
Dolan and Labbe’s wide-ranging yet cohesive collection of essays offers a comprehensive and convincing breadth that succeeds in its mission of placing Charlotte Smith. Beyond Smithian scholarship, the volume comes at a prescient time.
--Heather Heckman-McKenna University of Missouri-Columbia
Wife of Bath in Afterlife: Ballads to Blake, by Betsy Bowden
Bowden delves into each case study so expansively that at the end of reading the book, the reader has been immersed in many different eighteenth-century cultural worlds. This is an immensely learned and valuable book that dares to be different and, as a result, breaks new ground.
-- Marion Turner, Jesus College, University of Oxford
Our Osage Hills: Toward an Osage Ecology and Tribalography of the Early Twentieth Century, Edited by Michael Snyder
Our Osage Hills: Toward an Osage Ecology and Tribalography of the Early Twentieth Century is a significant work. Snyder uses Mathews’ columns as a window into Mathews’ understanding of the Osage, its geology, its flora and fauna, as well as its human inhabitants.
-- Ruby Hansen Murray, Osage News