Louisiana State University Press

In this highly original study of Confederate ideology and politics, Jeffrey Zvengrowski suggests that Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his...

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. 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...

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

Reducere. The Sazerac, the Hurricane, and the absinthe glass of Herbsaint are among the many well-known creations native to New Orleans's longstanding drinki...

Reducere. Before The Lost Get-Back Boogie appeared to wide acclaim in 1986, James Lee Burke had been out of print in cloth for thirteen years and his fifth n...

"We need poetry as we need love and company, " according to Miller Williams. Making a Poem speaks to us all -- those of us trying to write a first ...

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

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

Originally published in 1963, this powerful novel spools a rewarding, dramatic storyline while it probes the deeper philosophical search for self-d...

Reducere. One July week in 1900 an obscure black laborer named Robert Charles drew national headlines when he shot twenty-seven whites -- including seven pol...

Examines how the movement of people, ideas, and social practices contributed to the complex processes and negotiations involved in being and becomi...

Reducere. Two self-proclaimed "crotchety old horticulture professors, " Ed O'Rourke and Leon Standifer share an immense love of gardening, a vast knowledge o...

Reducere. Fresh herbs offer a healthy and delicious way to spice up any meal, but growing and cooking with these delectable plants are endeavors fraught with...

With On to Petersburg, Gordon Rhea completes his much-lauded history of the Overland Campaign, a series of Civil War battles fought between General...

A groundbreaking analysis of Confederate demobilization that examines the state of mind of Confederate soldiers in the immediate aftermath of war. ...

Explores the epistemological possibilities of the 'Black world' paradigm and traces a literary and cultural cartography of the monde noir and its c...

Features ten in-depth essays that provide fresh, diverse perspectives on Kate Chopin's first novel, At Fault. The essays in this volume provide mul...

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

Reducere. In the post--World War II era, Louisiana's coastal wetlands underwent an industrial transformation that placed the region at the center of America'...

Reducere. DescriptionToo often depicted as a region with a single, dominant history and a static culture, the American South actually comprises a wide range ...

Explores how southern writers of the 1930s and 1940s responded to Fascism, and most tellingly to the suggestion that the racial politics of Nazi Ge...

"A most persuasive work that repositions the American debates over emancipation where they clearly belong, in a broader Anglo-Atlantic context." --...

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

Reducere. With To the North Anna River, the third book in his outstanding five-book series, Gordon C. Rhea continues his spectacular narrative of the initial...

Reducere. William Kauffman Scarborough has produced a work of incomparable scope and depth, offering the challenge to see afresh one of the most powerful gro...

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...

Examines how the French left perceived and used the image of the United States against the backdrop of major historical developments in both countr...

Magnificent, maddening, thrilling, heartbreaking-- over the years, LSU football has been called many things; boring is not among them. But no perio...

Explores American reactions to hostile world opinion, as voiced in the United Nations by representatives of the Global South from 1970 to 1984. Sea...

Appointed by Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. Supreme Court during the Civil War, Samuel Freeman Miller (1816--1890) served on the nation's highest trib...

If We Must Die examines nearly five hundred shipboard rebellions that occurred over the course of the entire slave trade, directly challenging the ...

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

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

Reducere. In 1727, twelve nuns left France to establish a community of Ursuline nuns in New Orleans, the capital of the French colony of Louisiana. Notable f...

Reducere. On May 1, 1865, two weeks after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, recently inaugurated president Andrew Johnson appointed John Frederick Hartranft t...

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. 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. Focusing on the master-slave relationship in Louisiana's antebellum sugarcane country, The Sugar Masters explores how a modern, capitalist mind-set...

Reducere. DescriptionFirst published in 1978, Claude F. Oubre's Forty Acres and a Mule has since become a definitive study in the history of American Reconst...

Reducere. In Rituals of Resistance Jason R. Young explores the religious and ritual practices that linked West-Central Africa with the Lowcountry region of G...

Recovered in the mid-1990s from the attic of a Turnbull family descendant, Martha Turnbull's garden diary offers the most extensive surviving first...

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. 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. ...