A Haunted History of Louisiana Plantations, Paperback

Reducere. A City with a Violent Past: The predominant hue of the city's colorful past is blood red, and restless souls are rumored to inhabit the night. The ...

Reducere. One of the finest architectural photographers in America, Robert W. Tebbs produced the first photographic survey of Louisiana's plantations in 1926...

Reducere. This ground breaking study is the first to comprehensively examine the history of yellow fever in Louisiana. As the state's largest city and princi...

Reducere. Once the center of agricultural prosperity in Alabama, the rich soil of the Black Belt still features beautiful homes that stand as a testimony to ...

Reducere. Delaware's long history has created many ghostly echoes in the present day, places where the souls of the dead have not yet found rest. Experience ...

Reducere. This study encompasses a complete history of Louisiana's isleno community from the Spanish era to the late 20th century.

Reducere. Buried deep in the Wisconsin Northwoods, the ruined splendor of the Summerwind Mansion bares the bones of its legendary past. Robert Patterson Lamo...

Reducere. As the saying goes, "dead men tell no tales." Or do they? From its humble beginnings as a Spanish settlement in 1691 to the bloody battle at the Al...

Reducere. Once the center of agricultural prosperity in Alabama, the rich soil of the Black Belt still features beautiful homes that stand as a testimony to ...

Reducere. This anthology constitutes the first attempt to fill comprehensively one of the most enduring lacunae in Louisiana historiography--the French-Antil...

This comprehensive volume traces the history of Lafayette Parish, from its earliest beginnings and the struggle between the Attakapas Indians and t...

Reducere. What would compel an African-American man to spend ten years of his life tracing his family tree from the Pacific Northwest back to slavery times i...

Reducere. C. Vann Woodward's The Burden of Southern History remains one of the essential history texts of our time. In it Woodward brilliantly addresses the ...

Reducere. Madame Langlois Legacy: The Three Ingredients found in each chapter.HISTORICAL FICTION: VERIFIED EIGHTEENTH CENTURY RECIPES: RELEVANT HISTORICAL BA...

Reducere. In the summer of 1959, A. J. Liebling, veteran writer for the New Yorker, came to Louisiana to cover a series of bizarre events that began with Gov...

The hunt for red crawfish is the thing, the raison d'etre, of Acadian spring. Introduced to Louisiana by the swamp dwellers of the Atchafalaya Basi...

Reducere. DescriptionAfrican Americans, both enslaved and free, were vital to the economy of the Eastern Shore of Maryland before the Civil War. Maryland bec...

Reducere. Many of Cleveland's dearly departed haunt the Forest City to this day. A spirit lingers in the ballroom, and a little girl cries on the third floor...

Reducere. DescriptionAs the saying goes, "dead men tell no tales." Or do they? From its humble beginnings as a Spanish settlement in 1691 to the bloody battl...

Reducere. Built on the site of a Civil War camp ravaged by disease, the Ohio State Reformatory first opened in 1896 to reform young offenders but eventually ...

Reducere. Healing Haunted Histories tackles the oldest and deepest injustices on the North American continent. Violations which inhabit every intersection of...

A history of the South Louisiana, German community of Roberts Cove from 1880 to 2007, including an extensive genealogy of the original families tha...

"Antoine Simon Le Page Du Pratz was a Dutchman, as his birth in Holland about 1695 apparently proves. He died in 1775, just where available records...

Reducere. DescriptionBuilt on the site of a Civil War camp ravaged by disease, the Ohio State Reformatory first opened in 1896 to reform young offenders but ...

Reducere. Ghostly travelers are said to wander the lonely roads of western Pennsylvania. A creeping fog rises from Blue Mist Road, and stories of car crashes...

Reducere. There's nothing there now but a bunch of weeping willows, but in the nineteenth century, below the St. Francisville bluff was one of the most impor...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Earl J. HessDuring the Civil War, neither the Union nor the Confederate army could have operated without effective transpor...

Reducere. Ice-pick Lobotomies * Straight Jackets * Seclusion Cells * Ice Water Baths Sound like a scene from a horror movie? Welcome to the 19th century asyl...

Reducere. Originally published in 1931, Old Families of Louisiana was compiled in response to a demand for a comprehensive series of genealogical records of ...

Reducere. South Carolinians have long desired a route for water navigation from Columbia to Charleston. An early Santee Canal effort ended in failure by 1850...

Reducere. DescriptionLeaving the crowded, tourist-driven French Quarter by crossing Esplanade Avenue, visitors and residents entering the Faubourg Marigny tr...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Craig W. MarksButterflies abound in every region of the Bayou State, and with this authoritative resource in hand, both the...