Louisiana State University Press

Reducere. Taking an archaeological perspective on the past, Jeffrey S. Girard traces native human habitation in northwest Louisiana from the end of the last ...

Reducere. The initial confrontation between Union general Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate general Robert E. Lee in Virginia during the Overland Campaign has...

In Surprised by Sound, Roi Tartakovsky uncovers the mechanics of rhyme, revealing how and why it remains a vital part of poetry with connections to...

Reducere. DescriptionEvery basketball team has its star player. From 1967 to 1970, Louisiana State University saw the rise of a legend: "Pistol Pete" Maravic...

DescriptionThe civil rights revolutions of the 1950s and 1960s transformed the literature on Reconstruction in America by emphasizing the social hi...

Reducere. AwardsPROSEDescriptionThe grainy black-and-white television ad shows a young girl in a flower-filled meadow, holding a daisy and plucking its petal...

Reducere. DescriptionSoaring images, rhythmic language, and wry humor come together in these three narrative poems that explore travel from an African Americ...

Reducere. DescriptionA National Historic Landmark with a complex and remarkable two-hundred-year history, Melrose Plantation near Natchitoches, Louisiana, wa...

Reducere. IndieFab awardsIn her debut poetry collection The Glacier s Wake, Katy Didden attends to the large-scale tectonics of the natural world as she cons...

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. DescriptionIn this remarkable collection, ten premier scholars of nineteenth-century America address the epochal impact of the Civil War by examini...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this powerful collection, Chelsea Rathburn seeks to voice matters once deemed unspeakable, from collisions between children and preda...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Introduction by: Susan V. DonaldsonFirst published in 1930, the essays in this manifesto constitute one of the outstanding cultural...

While most people are aware of the World War II internment of thousands of Japanese citizens and residents of the US, few know that Germans, Austri...

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

Reducere. In comical and complex poems, David Kirby examines our extraordinarily human condition through the lens of our ordinary daily lives. These keenly o...

In the summer of 1965, several Ku Klux Klan members riding in a pickup truck shot two Black deputies on patrol in Washington Parish, Louisiana. Kla...

Reducere. The percussive poems of Stripper in Wonderland move from birth to death, funk to hip-hop, and racism to religion as Derrick Harriell explores the l...

Neon Revelations tracks the groundbreaking career of comics innovator and iconoclastic auteur Howard Chaykin and the impact of his work on the tran...

Reducere. Mardi Gras festivities don't end after the parades roll through the streets; rather, a large part of the celebration continues unseen by the genera...

Reducere. A quiet tour de force, Chris Bachelder's Abbott Awaits transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary, startlingly depicting the intense and poigna...

Reducere. Over the past thirty years, forensic anthropologist Mary H. Manhein has helped authorities to identify hundreds of deceased persons throughout Loui...

David Johnson uses Spencer Roane's conflict with John Marshall as ballast for the first-ever biography of this highly influential but largely forgo...

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

Reducere. New Roads and Old Rivers captures the natural and cultural vitality of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, as seen in the stunning photographs of Rich...

Reducere. In this debut collection, Chanda Feldman's stunning poems unveil her childhood as well as that of her parents. Memories of desegregation, the days ...

Billy Cannon's name, his image, and his remarkable athletic career serve as emblems for Louisiana State University, the Southeastern Conference, an...

Reducere. When Generals in Gray was published in 1959, scholars and critics immediately hailed it as one of the few indispensable books on the American Civil...

Reducere. Fought in a tangled forest fringing the south bank of the Rapidan River, the Battle of the Wilderness marked the initial engagement in the climacti...

Reducere. Gordon Rhea's gripping fourth volume on the spring 1864 campaign-which pitted Ulysses S. Grant against Robert E. Lee for the first time in the Civi...

Reducere. Whether your garden consists of large raised beds or a few pots on the patio, Kathryn K. Fontenot's The Louisiana Urban Gardener offers easy guidel...

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...

Reducere. A prominent Louisiana political scientist makes plain the reasons for the state's political peculiarities. In the popular American imagination, Lou...

Reducere. In March of 1972, civil rights activists and black power leaders met for three days in Gary, Indiana, looking to end their intense four-year feud t...

Reducere. After midnight on December 10, 1964, in Ferriday, Louisiana, African American Frank Morris awoke to the sound of breaking glass. Outside his home a...

Reducere. New Orleans is a city of many storied streets, but only one conjures up as much unbridled passion as it does fervent hatred, simultaneously polariz...

Reducere. Based on years of exhaustive and meticulous research, David C. Keehn's study provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Knights of the Golden...

Reducere. M m re's Country Creole Cookbook showcases regional dishes and cooking styles associated with the "German Coast, " a part of southeastern Louisiana...

Reducere. A father and son shovel snow from a driveway; a boy accidentally sets himself on fire; two boys fish for bluegill; a young drag queen returns home ...

Reducere. Notes from a Divided Country, Kim's first collection of poetry, confronts a number of difficult subjects - colonialism, the Korean War, emigration,...

Reducere. One of the first women s organizations to mask in a Mardi Gras parade, the Million Dollar Baby Dolls redefined the New Orleans carnival tradition. ...

Reducere. The battle at Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862 involved hundreds of thousands of men; produced staggering, unequal casualties (13, 000 Fe...

Reducere. A. Hays Town changed the face of the Louisiana house. In a career that includes designing more than five hundred homes, he led architects, builders...

With publication of Herbert Corey's Great War, coeditors Peter Finn and John Maxwell Hamilton reestablish Corey's name in the annals of American wa...

Reducere. Preservation Hall, located in the French Quarter just three blocks from the Mississippi River, remains an icon of New Orleans and an essential stop...

Reducere. In the early 1970s, two idealistic young people -- Gwen Carpenter Roland and Calvin Voisin -- decided to leave civilization and re-create the vanis...

Reducere. In John Kennedy Toole's iconic novel, Ignatius J. Reilly is never short of opinions about food or far away from his next bite. Whether issuing gibe...

Gathers one hundred poems by Henry Taylor, drawing on over fifty years of published work by this witty, adept, and vital literary voice. The book o...

Reducere. Description"Slavery and American Economic Development is a small book with a big interpretative punch. It is one of those rare books about a famili...

Drawing on his adulthood in academe, Richard Katrovas's memoir in essays chronicles a quest to locate surrogate fathers among older poets and other...

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

The only comprehensive account of the Battle of Fort Fisher and the basis for the television documentary Confederate Goliath, Rod Gragg's award-win...