South Bound: LSU Press, the Marcus M. Wilkerson Years (1935-1953)

Book Publishers in the South 2

In the lean year of 1933, dust storms ravaged the plains, breadlines snaked through cities, and Fred Harvey—a journeyman printer—established the University of New Mexico Press. Two years passed before another university press appeared. At Louisiana State University, Dr. Charles Pipkin, dean of the graduate school, had been quietly building momentum since 1931, publishing journals and serials, when in 1935, LSU Press was formally established.

This is the first in a series of examinations of Louisiana State University Press. Today’s focus: the years 1935 to 1953, when the institution moved from an uncertain venture to an established press. This period is defined by a single figure—Marcus Manley Wilkerson, its first director.

Marcus M. Wilkerson earned his B.A. in 1924, his M.A. in 1926, and his Ph.D. in history from Wisconsin in 1931. LSU appointed him an instructor in journalism in 1924, and by 1926, he was a full professor. He produced three significant works: his 1932 dissertation “Public Opinion and the Spanish-American War,” his 1935 biography Thomas Ducket Boyd: The Story of a Southern Educator, and his 1949 collaboration with Nafziger, An Introduction to Journalism Research.

In 1935, Wilkerson took charge and gave LSU Press its character. He knew what he wanted: books that told the South's story, made to last, worth keeping on a shelf. His system for choosing manuscripts—careful, thorough, uncompromising—proved so sensible that nobody's seen fit to change it since.

At its best, a regional program anticipates future interests and later needs, and quietly goes about the business of meeting them. What may start out as one lone title in a neglected field may lead in another day to a complete reconstruction of a whole area of scholarship. Louisiana State, under the late Dr. Marcus Wilkerson, was once one of the few publishers specializing in Civil War history, and was a pioneer in concentration upon Southern history; still a leader in these fields. Donald R. Ellegood, 2nd LSU Press director in “Nature and Meaning of Regional Publishing” Publishers Weekly 179.25, 1961-06-19, p 27.

Power in Louisiana flowed through Baton Rouge like the Mississippi. Until his death in 1953, Wilkerson guided LSU Press through a period of political turbulence. State leadership changed, university administrators came and went, but the press remained independent, resisting external pressure and maintaining its standards. A critical factor in its early success was its connection to The Southern Review, a literary quarterly led by Dr. Pipkin, with Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks serving as managing editors. Wilkerson, as technical adviser, ensured that the journal’s production matched its literary ambition, further solidifying LSU Press’s reputation.

At the time of Wilkerson’s death in 1953, LSU Press had become an institution. It was publishing, on average, twelve books per year. Its most ambitious project—the History of the South, a ten-volume series produced in partnership with the Littlefield Fund for Southern History at the University of Texas—stood as a defining scholarly achievement, one that warrants its own full examination. Beyond that, Wilkerson ensured the press attracted major authors, which are listed below.

Story Time

Before we get to the books, a story from Frank Lawrence Owsley: Historian of the Old South by Harriet Chappell Owsley. Vanderbilt University Press, 1990:

Robert Penn Warren was organizing a conference to be held at LSU for writers, editors, and directors of university presses. It was part of the celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the university's founding. For three days there were lectures, luncheons, dinners, and talks by a number of dignitaries, including Huey Long.

On the last evening of the celebration, Marcus Wilkerson, director of LSU Press, and his wife, who was dean of women at the university, gave a party at their home, primarily for the writers. Mr. Wilkerson came to the hotel and picked up a bunch of us. Among the group was John Gould Fletcher, an Agrarian who wrote an essay for I'll Take My Stand. Mr. Fletcher had visited Nashville several times, both before and after the publication of the book. He was a very intense man who liked to talk to one person at a time. When engaged in a conversation, he seemed to get angry if anyone interrupted, even if it was absolutely necessary to do so. For example, if we were dining informally and were passing the food, everything would stop when it got to him, and many times we would have to reverse it and send it around the other way until it reached Mr. Fletcher from the other side. Frank was one of his favorite people, but I do not think he liked me because I often had to interrupt their conversations.

When we arrived at the Wilkersons' home, it fell my lot to be seated next to Mr. Fletcher on the sofa. On the other side of him was a lovely young girl who had ambitions to become a poet. She wanted to talk with him about her poetry, and he was delighted to accommodate her. Naturally, he turned away from me, and since there was no one on the other side of me with whom I might talk, I could not help hearing the conversation that took place beside me. The young girl told him of her ambitions and also told him that she admired his poetry very much and had been wanting to meet him. All the time she was talking, Mr. Fletcher kept his hypnotic eyes fixed upon her.

Finally, he said to her, “Have you ever been hypnotized?” There was a long silence, and as she gazed intently at him, tears began streaming down her cheeks. When she did not reply, he said to her, “You are in a trance now.” She did not seem to be able to speak, and they sat gazing at each other in complete concentration. The tears continued to stream from her large blue eyes. Just at that moment Mr. Wilkerson appeared before them and in his most hospitable manner said, “Mr. Fletcher, could I get you a drink?”

With that, Mr. Fletcher, shocked out of his trance, rose to his full height, stretched his arms above his head to their full length, brought his hands down to his balding head, and grabbed a few strands of hair in each hand. With a grimace he said in vicious tones, “That is the rudest and the crudest thing that has ever happened to me. A thing like that could only happen in America.” (Mr. Fletcher had spent much of his life in England.)

Mr. Wilkerson, stunned by the outburst, moved away and back toward the dining room where the drinks were being dispensed. Halfway back, he stopped, and one could almost read his mind. He turned and came back, doubtless saying to himself that he could not take such slanderous remarks without a protest. Standing in front of the poet, he said, “Mr. Fletcher, if you were not a guest in my house, I would tell you exactly what I think of you.” Then Mr. Wilkerson turned and went away.

By that time everyone in the room had stopped talking and was waiting to see what would happen. Mr. Fletcher, without another word, stalked out of the room and out of the house. The Wilkerson home was some distance from the hotel where we were staying, and we all wondered if Mr. Fletcher would try to walk back to the hotel. We did not think he could face Mr. Wilkerson again after he had so rudely insulted him, but as we started out the door to go back to the hotel, Mr. Fletcher meekly and silently joined us on the porch where he had been waiting.

Mr. Fletcher's letter to Frank after he returned home was apologetic and somewhat pathetic, but it was obvious that he genuinely regretted his actions and his words at the Wilkerson home. He wrote that he was sincerely sorry he had proved of such poor service to the cause, and he did not think he would come to any more conferences because “the conditions of modern society were such that he was unfit to appear in it.”

The Books

1931. Evans, Melvin. A Study in the State Government of Louisiana.

1931. Foote, Irving P. Tenure of High School Teachers in Louisiana.

1931. Mitchell, Nicholas Pendleton. Land Problems and Policies in the African Mandates of the British Commonwealth.

1931. Read, William A. Louisiana-French.

1931. Smith, James Barclay. Some Phases of Fair Value and Interstate Rates.

1932. Craven, Avery. Edmund Ruffin, Southerner: A Study in Secession.

1932. Miller, Ben Robertson. The Louisiana Judiciary.

1932. Wilkerson, Marcus M. Public Opinion and the Spanish-American War: A Study in War Propaganda.

1933. Daggett, Harriet Spiller. A Compilation of Louisiana Statutes Affecting Child Welfare and the Report of the Louisiana Children’s Code Committee.

1934. Read, William A. Florida Place-Names of Indian Origin and Seminole Personal Names.

1934. Stephenson, Wendell Holmes. Alexander Porter, Whig Planter of Old Louisiana.

1935. Brooks, Cleanth. The Relation of the Alabama-Georgia Dialect to the Provincial Dialects of Great Britain.

1935. Caldwell, Stephen Adolphus. A Banking History of Louisiana.

1935. Carleton, Roderick Lewis. Local Government and Administration in Louisiana.

1935. Daggett, Harriet Spiller. Legal Essays On Family Law.

1935. McVoy, Lizzie Carter. A Bibliography of Fiction.

1935. Schwartz, Morris Carla. Dissolved Oxygen in Boiler Feedwater.

1935. Wilkerson, Marcus M. Thomas Duckett Boyd: The Story of a Southern Educator.

1936. Brooks, Cleanth. An Approach to Literature.

1936. Caldwell, Stephen Adolphus. The New Orleans Trade Area.

1936. Carter, Gipson L. Ramie: A Critical Survey of Facts Concerning the Growing and Utilization of the Fiber Bearing Plant “Urtica Nivea”.

1936. Fleming, Walter L. Louisiana State University, 1860-1896.

1936. Gray, Giles Wilkeson. Studies in Experimental Phonetics.

1936. Pipkin, Charles W. The Duty of the Educated Mind.

1936. Smith, Charles Edward. A History of Western Civilization.

1937. Bradbury, Robert W. The Water-Borne Commerce of New Orleans.

1937. Carleton, Roderick Lewis. The Reorganization and Consolidation of State Administration in Louisiana.

1937. Crabitès, Pierre. Unhappy Spain.

1937. Culpepper, A. M. Music Appreciation: A Workbook For Students.

1937. Gauss, Carl Friedrich. Inaugural Lecture On Astronomy and Papers On the Foundations of Mathematics.

1937. Heilman, Robert Bechtold. America in English Fiction, 1760-1800.

1937. Mayer, Marian. Workmen’s Compensation Law in Louisiana: A Case Study.

1937. Preston, Stanley Wales. Sulphur in Louisiana.

1937. Read, William A. Indian Place-Names in Alabama.

1938. Caskey, Willie Malvin. Secession and Restoration of Louisiana.

1938. Farris, Theodore Newton. Severance Taxation in Louisiana.

1938. Galpin, Charles Josiah. My Drift Into Rural Sociology: Memoirs of Charles Josiah Galpin.

1938. Harrington, Mildred P. A List of Good Ten and Fifteen Cent Books.

1938. Smith, Marion B. A Sociological Analysis of Rural Education in Louisiana.

1938. Stephenson, Wendell Holmes. Isaac Franklin, Slave Trader and Planter of the Old South: With Plantation Records.

1938. Thompson, John Archie. Alexandre Dumas Père and Spanish Romantic Drama.

1938. Wiley, Bell Irvin. Southern Negroes, 1861-1865.

1939. Agnew, Janet Margaret. A Southern Bibliography: Fiction, 1929-1938.

1939. Baker, Howard. Induction to Tragedy: A Study in a Development of Form in Gorboduc, the Spanish Tragedy and Titus Andronicus.

1939. Burleigh, Thomas Dearborn. Description of Two New Birds From Western Texas.

1939. Colvert, Clyde C. The Public Junior College Curriculum: An Analysis, By Clyde C. Colvert.

1939. Coulter, E. Merton. The Other Half of Old New Orleans, Sketches of Characters and Incidents From the Recorder’s Court of New Orleans in the Eighteen Forties As Reported in the “Picayune”.

1939. Craven, Avery. The Repressible Conflict, 1830-1861.

1939. Cruchet, René. France Et Louisiane: Médecine Et Littérature. Montaigne Et Montesquieu at Home.

1939. Daggett, Harriet Spiller. Mineral Rights in Louisiana.

1939. Hall, E. Raymond. Geographic Races of the Kangaroo Rat, Dipodomys Microps.

1939. MacIver, Robert M. Leviathan and the People.

1939. Shugg, Roger W. Origins of Class Struggle in Louisiana: A Social History of White Farmers and Laborers During Slavery and After, 1840-1875.

1939. Sutton, George Miksch. A List of Birds Observed On the 1938 Semple Expedition to Northeastern Mexico.

1939. Warren, Austin. Richard Crashaw: A Study in Baroque Sensibility.

1939. Whitfield, Irène Thérèse. Louisiana French Folk Songs.

1940. Abernethy, Thomas Perkins. Three Virginia Frontiers.

1940. Agnew, Janet Margaret. A Southern Bibliography: Historical Fiction, 1929-1938.

1940. Agnew, Janet Margaret. A Southern Bibliography: Poetry, 1929-1938.

1940. Allen, Charles L. Free Circulation: A Study of Newspapers Having Free Or Controlled Distribution.

1940. Burleigh, Thomas Dearborn. Birds of the Guadalupe Mountain Region of Western Texas.

1940. Caffee, Nathaniel M.; Thomas A. Kirby. Studies for William A. Read: A Miscellany Presented By Some of His Colleagues and Friends.

1940. Coulter, E. Merton. Thomas Spalding of Sapelo.

1940. Davis, William B. Mammals of the Guadalupe Mountains of Western Texas.

1940. Harris, Robert Jennings. The Judicial Power of the United States.

1940. Hatcher, William B. Edward Livingston, Jeffersonian Republican and Jacksonian Democrat.

1940. Kirby, Thomas A. Chaucer’s Troilus: A Study in Courtly Love.

1940. Lauvrier̀e, Émile. Histoire De La Louisiane Française, 1673-1939.

1940. McVoy, Lizzie Carter. Louisiana in the Short Story.

1940. Nix, James Thomas. A Surgeon Reflects.

1940. Parks, Joseph Howard. Felix Grundy, Champion of Democracy.

1940. Smith, Charles Edward. Papal Enforcement of Some Medieval Marriage Laws.

1940. Spurlin, Paul Merrill. Montesquieu in America, 1760-1801.

1941. Bragg, Jefferson Davis. Louisiana in the Confederacy.

1941. Brown, Weldon Amzy. Empire Or Independence: A Study in the Failure of Reconciliation, 1774-1783.

1941. Burke, Kenneth. The Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic Action.

1941. Devine, Carl Thomas. Measures of Business Variation in Louisiana.

1941. Dyer, John P. Fightin’ Joe Wheeler.

1941. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Hawthorne As Editor: Selections from His Writings in the American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge.

1941. Heilman, Robert Bechtold. Aspects of Democracy.

1941. McLemore, Richard Aubrey. Franco-American Diplomatic Relations, 1816-1836.

1941. Percy, William Alexander. Lanterns On the Levee; Recollections of a Planter’s Son.

1941. Prescott, Arthur Taylor. Drafting the Federal Constitution.

1941. Rippy, James Fred. South America and Hemisphere Defense.

1942. Agnew, Janet Margaret. A Southern Bibliography: Biography, 1929-1938.

1942. Broussard, James Francis. Louisiana Creole Dialect.

1942. Brown, Clair A. Ferns and Fern Allies of Louisiana.

1942. Burleigh, Thomas Dearborn. A New Barn Swallow From the Gulf Coast of the United States.

1942. Burleigh, Thomas Dearborn. An Inland Race of Sterna Albifrons.

1942. Burleigh, Thomas Dearborn. Notes On the Birds of Southeastern Coahuila.

1942. Daggett, Harriet Spiller. Louisiana Privileges and Chattel Mortgage.

1942. Denbo, Bruce Frederick. Notice By Newspaper Publication in Louisiana: A Digest of Laws.

1942. Lowery, George H. A Revision of the Fox Squirrels of the Lower Mississippi Valley and Texas.

1942. Saliers, Earl Adolphus. The Income Tax Under Federal and Louisiana Laws.

1942. Smith, Charles Edward. Tiberius and the Roman Empire.

1943. Bennett, William Batchelder. The American Patent System: An Economic Interpretation.

1943. Bettersworth, John Knox. Confederate Mississippi: The People and Policies of a Cotton State in Wartime.

1943. Caldwell, Stephen Adolphus. The Economic Development of the Shreveport Trade Area.

1943. Hutchins, Robert Maynard. Education for Freedom.

1943. Lowery, George H. Check-List of the Mammals of Louisiana and Adjacent Waters.

1943. Miller, Alden H. A New Race of Brown-Headed Chickadee From Northern Washington.

1943. Mott, Frank Luther. Jefferson and the Press.

1943. O’Connor, William Van. Climates of Tragedy.

1943. Osborn, George Coleman. John Sharp Williams, Planter-Statesman of the Deep South.

1943. Saliers, Earl Adolphus. The Income Tax Under Federal and Louisiana Laws.

1943. Schwartz, Morris Carla. Source Data On Municipal Water Treatment Plants in the United States.

1943. Shaw, Arthur Marvin. William Preston Johnston: A Transitional Figure of the Confederacy.

1943. Sutton, George Miksch. Birds of Linares and Galeana.

1943. Upson, Theodore Frelinghuysen. With Sherman to the Sea: The Civil War Letters, Diaries and Reminiscences of Theodore F. Upson.

1943. Van Rossem, Adriaan Joseph. The Yellow-Crowned Night Heron of Socorro Island, Mexico.

1943. Warren, Harris Gaylord. The Sword Was Their Passport: A History of American Filibustering in the Mexican Revolution.

1943. Wiley, Bell Irvin. The Plain People of the Confederacy.

1943. Wish, Harvey. George Fitzhugh, Propagandist of the Old South. 1944-1988.

1944. Burleigh, Thomas Dearborn. Geographical Variation in the Red-Bellied Woodpecker in the Southeastern United States.

1944. Burleigh, Thomas Dearborn. The Bird Life of the Gulf Coast Region of Mississippi.

1944. Dabney, Thomas Ewing. One Hundred Great Years: The Story of the Times-Picayune from Its Founding to 1940.

1944. Griscom, Ludlow. A Second Revision of the Seaside Sparrows.

1944. Patrick, Rembert W. Jefferson Davis and His Cabinet.

1944. Tillotson, Arthur, ed.. The Percy Letters v. 1, The Correspondence of Thomas Percy and Edmond Malone.

1944. Ramsdell, Charles W. Behind the Lines in the Southern Confederacy.

1944. Saliers, Earl Adolphus. The Income Tax Under Federal and Louisiana Laws.

1944. Simkins, Francis Butler. Pitchfork Ben Tillman, South Carolinian.

1944. Smith, C. R. F. Management of Newspaper Correspondents.

1944. Wheeler, Mary. Steamboatin’ Days, Folk Songs of the River Packet Era.

1945. Daggett, Harriet Spiller. The Community Property System of Louisiana: Reprinted With Addenda.

1945. Dickey, Dallas C. Seargent S. Prentiss, Whig Orator of the Old South.

1945. Duffy, Charles. The Correspondence of Bayard Taylor and Paul Hamilton Hayne.

1945. Ford, James Alfred. The Tchefuncte Culture, An Early Occupation of the Lower Mississippi Valley.

1945. French, Robert W. Income Estimates for Louisiana Parishes, 1939 and 1943.

1945. Heberle, Rudolf. From Democracy to Nazism: A Regional Case Study on Political Parties in Germany.

1945. Hoffman, Frederick John. Freudianism and the Literary Mind.

1945. Nelson, M. Frederick. Korea and the Old Orders in Eastern Asia.

1945. Van Rossem, Adriaan Joseph. A Distributional Survey of the Birds of Sonora.

1946. Brooks, Cleanth. ed. The Percy Letters v. 2, The Correspondence of Thomas Percy and Richard Farmer.

1946. Dyer, Brainerd. Zachary Taylor.

1946. Harmon, Nolan B. The Famous Case of Myra Clark Gaines.

1946. Preston, Stanley Wales. Survey of Louisiana Manufacturing, 1929-1939.

1946. Randall, J. G. Lincoln and the South.

1946. Saliers, Earl Adolphus. The Income Tax Under Federal and Louisiana Laws: Including Withholding Tables For 1946.

1946. Smith, T. Lynn. Brazil: People and Institutions.

1947. Ballowe, Hewitt Leonard. The Lawd Sayin’ the Same: Negro Folk Tales of the Creole Country.

1947. Braddy, Haldeen. Chaucer and the French Poet, Graunson.

1947. Coulter, E. Merton. The South During Reconstruction, 1865-1877. A History of the South 8.

1947. Luxon, Norval Neil. Niles’ Weekly Register: News Magazine of the Nineteenth Century.

1948. Alden, John Richard. General Gage in America: Being Principally a History of His Role in the American Revolution.

1948. Ballowe, Hewitt Leonard. Creole Folk Tales: Stories of the Louisiana Marsh Country.

1948. Butler, Pierce. The Unhurried Years: Memories of the Old Natchez Region.

1948. Clark, Thomas Dionysius. The Rural Press and the New South.

1948. Corwin, Edward S. Liberty Against Government: The Rise, Flowering and Decline of a Famous Juridical Concept.

1948. Cramer, John Henry. Lincoln Under Enemy Fire: The Complete Account of His Experiences During Early’s Attack on Washington.

1948. Freidel, Frank. Francis Lieber: Nineteenth-Century Liberal.

1948. Heberle, Rudolf. The Labor Force in Louisiana.

1948. Heilman, Robert Bechtold. This Great Stage: Image and Structure in King Lear.

1948. Sydnor, Charles S. The Development of Southern Sectionalism, 1819-1848.

1948. Taylor, Carl C. Rural Life in Argentina.

1948. Wogan, Daniel Spelman. A Literatura Hispano-Americana no Brasil, 1877-1944.

1949. Atherton, Lewis E. The Southern Country Store, 1800-1860.

1949. Chase, Richard Volney. Quest for Myth.

1949. Clark, William Bell. Captain Dauntless: The Story of Nicholas Biddle of the Continental Navy.

1949. Craven, Wesley Frank. The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1689. A History of the South 1.

1949. Daggett, Harriet Spiller. Mineral Rights in Louisiana.

1949. Durieux, Caroline. 43 Lithographs and Drawings.

1949. Gosnell, Harpur Allen. Guns On the Western Waters: The Story of River Gunboats in the Civil War.

1949. Lowery, George H. New Birds From the State of San Luis Potosi and the Tuxtla Mountains of Veracruz, Mexico.

1949. Nafziger, Ralph O. An Introduction to Journalism Research.

1949. Owsley, Frank Lawrence. Plain Folk of the Old South.

1949. Scheps, Clarence. Accounting for Colleges and Universities.

1949. Silver, James W. Edmund Pendleton Gaines: Frontier General.

1950. Carter, Hodding. Southern Legacy.

1950. Coulter, E. Merton. The Confederate States of America, 1861-1865. A History of the South 7.

1950. Dalquest, Walter Woelber. Records of Mammals From the Mexican State of San Luis Potosí.

1950. Hesseltine, William B. Confederate Leaders in the New South.

1950. Holtman, Robert B. Napoleonic Propaganda.

1950. Montgomery, Horace. Cracker Parties.

1950. Overdyke, W. Darrell. The Know-Nothing Party in the South.

1950. Parks, Joseph Howard. John Bell of Tennessee.

1950. Stampp, Kenneth M. And the War Came: The North and the Secession Crisis, 1860-1861.

1950. Wittke, Carl Frederick. The Utopian Communist: A Biography of Wilhelm Weitling, Nineteenth-Century Reformer.

1951. Alden, John Richard. General Charles Lee: Traitor Or Patriot?.

1951. De Grummond, Jane Lucas. Envoy to Caracas: The Story of John G.A. Williamson, Nineteenth-Century Diplomat.

1951. Lonn, Ella. Foreigners in the Union Army and Navy.

1951. Mason, Kathryn Harrod. James Harrod of Kentucky.

1951. Robinson, M. G., and Leah Dennis, eds. The Percy Letters v. 3, The Correspondence of Thomas Percy and Thomas Wharton.

1951. Smith, Charles Edward. Innocent III, Church Defender.

1951. Wood, Virginia L. Due Process of Law, 1932-1949: The Supreme Court’s Use of a Constitutional Tool.

1951. Woodward, C. Vann. Origins of the New South, 1877-1913.

1952. Appleby, Paul H. Morality and Administration in Democratic Government.

1952. Binkley, William C. The Texas Revolution.

1952. Bridenbaugh, Carl. Myths and Realities: Societies of the Colonial South.

1952. Dearing, Mary R. Veterans in Politics: The Story of the G. A. R.

1952. Hammer, Carl. Goethe After Two Centuries.

1952. Hammer, Carl. Longfellow’s Golden Legend and Goethe’s Faust.

1952. Harrington, Mildred P. The Southwest in Children’s Books: A Bibliography.

1952. Kendall, John S. The Golden Age of the New Orleans Theater.

1952. Phares, Ross. Cavalier in the Wilderness: The Story of the Explorer and Trader Louis Juchereau De St. Denis.

1952. Richardson, Walter Cecil. Tudor Chamber Administration, 1485-1547.

1952. Sanger, Donald Bridgman. James Longstreet.

1952. Smith, T. Lynn. The People of Louisiana.

1952. West, Robert Cooper. Colonial Placer Mining in Colombia.

1953. Brooks, Cleanth; Robert Penn Warren. An Anthology of Stories From the Southern Review.

1953. Clark, William Bell. The First Saratoga: Being the Saga of John Young and His Sloop-of-War.

1953. Cochran, Fred Derward. Cytogenetic Studies of the Species Hybrid Allium Fistulosum X Allium Ascalonicum and Its Backcross Progenies.

1953. Craven, Avery. The Growth of Southern Nationalism, 1848-1861.

1953. Dalquest, Walter Woelber. Mammals of the Mexican State of San Luis Potosí.

1953. Duffy, John. Epidemics in Colonial America.

1953. Krumpelmann, John T. Mark Twain and the German Language.

1953. Lambert, John R. Arthur Pue Gorman.

1953. Merrill, Horace Samuel. Bourbon Democracy of the Middle West, 1865-1896.

1953. Richardson, Walter Cecil. Stephen Vaughan, Financial Agent of Henry VIII: A Study of Financial Relations With the Low Countries.

1953. White, Leonard Dupee. The States and the Nation.

1954. Davis, Edwin Adams. The Barber of Natchez.

1954. Emerson, Everett H. Contributions to the Humanities, 1954.

1954. Falconer, A. F., ed. The Percy Letters v. 4, The Correspondence of Thomas Percy and David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.

1954. Land, Mary. Louisiana Cookery.

1954. Markham, James Walter. Bovard of the Post-Dispatch.

1954. Masterson, William H. William Blount.

1954. Parks, Joseph Howard. General Edmund Kirby Smith, C.S.A.

1954. Prothro, James Warren. The Dollar Decade: Business Ideas in the 1920’s.

1954. Smith, T. Lynn. Brazil: People and Institutions.

1954. Uhler, John Earle. Morley’s Canzonets for Two Voices.

1954. Williams, T. Harry. P.G.T. Beauregard: Napoleon in Gray.

Notes

My sources:
- Louisiana State University Press, 1935-1985: A Tradition of Excellence
- Parnassus on the Mississippi, the Southern Review and the Baton Rouge Literary Community, 1935-1942. LSU Press, 1984.
- A History of Book Publishing in the United States 3, The Golden Age Between Two Wars, 1920-1940 & A History of Book Publishing in the United States 4, The Great Change 1940-1980.
- “Louisiana State University Press, Publisher in the Deep South” Publishers Weekly 163.18, 1953-05-02.

Misc:
”The Press and the Spanish-American War” by Marcus M. Wilkerson. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 09.2, 1932.

Marcus M. Wilkerson papers, 1923-1958 at LSU.

Marcus M. Wilkerson Obituaries

Various newspaper clippings about Louisiana State University during the “political years” and about LSU Press.