Lsu Press imprint: 854 books
Rewiring Politics
Presidential Nominating Conventions in the Media Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
A century ago, national political parties' nominating conventions for U.S. presidential candidates often resembled wide-open brawls, filled with front-stage conflicts and back-room deals. Today, leagues of advisors precisely plan and carefully script these events even though their outcomes are largely...
Working Congress
A Guide for Senators, Representatives, and Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
In 1964, as the polarizing Civil Rights Act made its way through the House and Senate, and Congress navigated one of the most tumultuous eras in American history, a Harris Poll put the institution's approval rating at 60 percent. Why then, fifty years later, has the public's approval of Congress eroded...
If We Must Die
Shipboard Insurrections in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
If We Must Die examines nearly five hundred shipboard rebellions that occurred over the course of the entire slave trade, directly challenging the prevailing thesis that such resistance was infrequent or insignificant. As Eric Robert Taylor shows, though most revolts were crushed quickly, others raged...
Inside the Confederate Nation
Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
In The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience (1970) and The Confederate Nation (1979), Emory Thomas redefined the field of Civil War history and reconceptualized the Confederacy as a unique entity fighting a war for survival. Inside the Confederate Nation honors his enormous contributions to the...
No Taint of Compromise
Crusaders in Antislavery Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
No Taint of Compromise highlights the motives and actions of those who played instrumental if not central roles in antislavery politics -- those who undertook the yeoman's work of organizing parties, holding conventions, editing newspapers, and generally animating and agitating the discussion of issues...
Keeping the Beat on the Street
The New Orleans Brass Band Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Told in the words of the musicians themselves, Keeping the Beat on the Street celebrates the renewed passion and pageantry among black brass bands in New Orleans. Mick Burns introduces the people who play the music and shares their insights, showing why New Orleans is the place where jazz continues...
by Jill Bergman
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Well known in her day as a singer, playwright, author, and editor of the Colored American Magazine, Pauline Hopkins (1859--1930) has been the subject of considerable scholarly attention over the last twenty years. Academic review of her many accomplishments, however, largely overlooks Hopkins's contributions...
Concert Life in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
A Comprehensive Reference
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
During the nineteenth century, New Orleans thrived as the epicenter of classical music in America, outshining New York, Boston, and San Francisco before the Civil War and rivaling them thereafter. While other cities offered few if any operatic productions, New Orleans gained renown for its glorious...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
The meanings and practices of American citizenship were as contested during the Civil War era as they are today. By examining a variety of perspectives—from prominent lawmakers in Washington, D.C., to enslaved women, from black firemen in southern cities to Confederate émigrés in Latin America—The...
Traditional New Orleans Jazz
Conversations with the Men Who Make the Music
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
About a century after its beginnings, traditional jazz remains the definitive music of New Orleans and an international hallmark of the city. The enduring sound and boundless energy of this American art form have produced a long list of jazz legends. From Lionel Ferbos -- the city's oldest working...
The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000
A Personal Retrospective
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
In 1966, journalist Charles Suhor wrote that New Orleans jazz was "ready for its new Golden Age." Thomas W. Jacobsen's The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000 chronicles the resurgence of jazz music in the Crescent City in the years following Suhor's prophetic claim. Jacobsen, a New Orleans resident...
Walking with Legends
Barry Martyn's New Orleans Jazz Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Drummer, record producer, bandleader, jazz researcher, and cigar-chomping raconteur Barry Martyn is a New Orleans original who happens to have been born in England. Implausible though this may seem, it makes perfect sense to members of the New Orleans traditional jazz community, who view themselves...
Familiars
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Solitary, graceful, and contemplative, cats have inspired poets from Charles Baudelaire to Margaret Atwood to serve as their chroniclers and celebrants. They have appeared, wrapped in their inscrutability, in verse both sensual and spiritual, weary and whimsical. With Familiars, Fred Chappell proves...
Lovers and Beloveds
Sexual Otherness in Southern Fiction, 1936--1961
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
A challenge to traditional criticism, this engaging study demonstrates that issues of sexuality-and same-sex desire in particular-were of central importance in the literary production of the Southern Renaissance. Especially during the end of that period-approximately the 1940s and 1950s-the national...