Lsu Press imprint: 854 books
by Stephen E. Ambrose
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1993
Emory Upton (1839–1881) was “the epitome of a professional soldier,” according to Stephen E. Ambrose. Indeed, his entire adult life was devoted to the single-minded pursuit of a military career. Upton was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Fifth United States Artillery on May 6, 1861, the...
The Papers of Jefferson Davis
October 1863–August 1864
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1999
Kenneth H. Williams, Associate Editor
Peggy L. Dillard, Editorial Associate The autumn of 1863 was a trying time for Jefferson Davis. Even as he expressed unwavering confidence about the eventual success of the Confederate movement, he had to realize that mounting economic problems, low morale, and...
The Papers of Jefferson Davis
July 1846–December 1848
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1982
Lynda L. Crist, Associate Editor
Mary S. Dix, Assistant EditorAt the end of Volume 2 Jefferson Davis had left Congress to become a colonel in the First Mississippi Regiment. The first item in this volume is a speech as he prepares to leave on a riverboat to serve in the Mexican War. The years 1846...
The Papers of Jefferson Davis
January–September 1863
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1997
“The New Year . . . comes in auspiciously for us,” Jefferson Davis proclaimed in January, 1863, and indeed there were grounds for optimism within the Confederacy. By September, however, various hopes for ending the conflict with the North had given way to the harsh realities of a prolonged war,...
by Jefferson Davis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
Volume 8 of The Papers of Jefferson Davis brings the Confederate president to the second year of the War Between the States and shows that during 1862 Davis was almost completely overwhelmed by military matters. Indeed, early that year, in an address to the Confederate Congress, he admitted that in...
The Papers of Jefferson Davis
1849–1852
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1983
May Seaton Dix, Associate Editor
Richard E. Beringer, Visiting CoeditorIn Volume 4 of The Papers of Jefferson Davis, which covers the years 1849 to 1852, Davis had clearly chosen politics ar his life's work. He relished in his role as Mississippi's senior senator and willingly assumed the responsibility...
Freedom's Seekers
Essays on Comparative Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie's Freedom's Seekers offers a bold and innovative intervention into the study of emancipation as a transnational phe-nomenon and serves as an important contribution to our understanding of the remaking of the nineteenth-century Atlantic Americas.
Drawing on decades of research...
Los Brazos de Dios
A Plantation Society in the Texas Borderlands, 1821--1865
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Historians have long believed that the "frontier" shaped Texas plantation society, but in this detailed examination of Texas's most important plantation region, Sean M. Kelley asserts that the dominant influence was not the frontier but the Mexican Republic. The Lower Brazos River Valley -- the only...
Black Labor, White Sugar
Caribbean Braceros and Their Struggle for Power in the Cuban Sugar Industry
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Early in the twentieth century, the Cuban sugarcane industry faced a labor crisis when Cuban and European workers balked at the inhumane conditions they endured in the cane fields. Rather than reforming their practices, sugar companies gained permission from the Cuban government to import thousands...
John Washington's Civil War
A Slave Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
In 1872, just seven years after his emancipation, a thirty-four-year-old former slave named John Washington penned the story of his life, calling it "Memorys of the Past." One hundred and twenty years later, in the early 1990s, historian Crandall Shifflett stumbled upon Washington's forgotten manuscript...
Writing History with Lightning
Cinematic Representations of Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Films possess virtually unlimited power for crafting broad interpretations of American history. Nineteenth-century America has proven especially conducive to Hollywood imaginations, producing indelible images like the plight of Davy Crockett and the defenders of the Alamo, Pickett’s doomed charge...
by
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
The Civil War experiences of Albert C. Ellithorpe, a Caucasian Union Army officer commanding the tri-racial First Indian Home Guards, illuminate remarkable and understudied facets of campaigning west of the Mississippi River. Major Ellithorpe’s unit—comprised primarily of refugee Muscogee Creek...
Rebels on the Border
Civil War, Emancipation, and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Rebels on the Border offers a remarkably compelling and significant study of the Civil War South's highly contested and bloodiest border states: Kentucky and Missouri. By far the most complex examination to date, the book sharply focuses on the "borderland" between the free North and the Confederate...
Civil War Writing
New Perspectives on Iconic Texts
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
Civil War Writing is a collection of new essays that focus on the most significant writing about the American Civil War by participants who lived through it, whether as civilians or combatants, southerners or northerners, women or men, blacks or whites. Collectively, as contributors show, these writings...