Lsu Press imprint: 854 books
Mosquito Soldiers
Malaria, Yellow Fever, and the Course of the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Of the 620,000 soldiers who perished during the American Civil War, the overwhelming majority died not from gunshot wounds or saber cuts, but from disease. And of the various maladies that plagued both armies, few were more pervasive than malaria -- a mosquito-borne illness that afflicted over 1.1...
Ellet's Brigade
The Strangest Outfit of All
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Soon after the start of the Civil War, during the naval buildup on the central Mississippi River, celebrated civil engineer Charles Ellet, Jr., formed the Ram Fleet under U.S. secretary of war Edwin M. Stanton. Perhaps the most bizarre unit organized by the Union, the rams were shunned by both the...
Diplomacy at the Brink
Eisenhower, Churchill, and Eden in the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
A groundbreaking new study of Anglo-American relations during the Cold War, Diplomacy at the Brink argues for a reevaluation of Dwight D. Eisenhower's foreign policy toward allies and enemies alike. Contrary to his reputation as a level-headed moderate, the Eisenhower who emerges in David M. Watry's...
Sustaining Southern Identity
Douglas Southall Freeman and Memory in the Modern South
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Pulitzer Prize--winning historian Douglas Southall Freeman, perhaps more than any other writer in the first half of the twentieth century, helped shape and sustain a collective identity for white southerners. A journalist, lecturer, radio broadcaster, and teacher of renown, Freeman wrote and spoke...
Invisible Activists
Women of the Louisiana NAACP and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1915--1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Behind the historical accounts of the great men of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People lies the almost forgotten story of the black women who not only participated in the organization but actually helped it thrive in the early twentieth-century South. In Invisible Activists,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
French colonial Louisiana has failed to occupy a place in the historic consciousness of the United States, perhaps owing to its short duration (1699--1762) and its standing outside the dominant narrative of the British colonies in North America. This anthology seeks to locate early Louisiana in its...
Abolitionizing Missouri
German Immigrants and Racial Ideology in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Historians have long known that German immigrants provided much of the support for emancipation in southern Border States. Kristen Layne Anderson's Abolitionizing Missouri, however, is the first analysis of the reasons behind that opposition as well as the first exploration of the impact that the...
Being Ugly
Southern Women Writers and Social Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
In the South, one notion of “being ugly” implies inappropriate or coarse behavior that transgresses social norms of courtesy. While popular stereotypes of the region often highlight southern belles as the epitome of feminine power, women writers from the South frequently stray from this convention...
Notorious Woman
The Celebrated Case of Myra Clark Gaines
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
The legal crusade of Myra Clark Gaines (1804?--1885) has all the trappings of classic melodrama -- a lost heir, a missing will, an illicit relationship, a questionable marriage, a bigamous husband, and a murder. For a half century the daughter of New Orleans millionaire Daniel Clark struggled to justify...
City Adrift
New Orleans Before and After Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Hurricane Katrina was a stunning example of complete civic breakdown. Beginning on August 29, 2005, the world watched in horror as -- despite all the warnings and studies -- every system that might have protected New Orleans failed. Levees and canals buckled, pouring more than 100 billion gallons...
The Extreme Right in the French Resistance
Members of the Cagoule and Corvignolles in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
In the aftermath of World War II, historical accounts and public commentaries enshrined the French Resistance as an apolitical, unified movement committed to upholding human rights, equality, and republican values during the dark period of German occupation. Valerie Deacon complicates that conventional...
James Henry Hammond and the Old South
A Design for Mastery
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1985
From his birth in 1807 to his death in 1864 as Sherman's troops marched in triumph toward South Carolina, James Henry Hammond witnessed the rise and fall of the cotton kingdom of the Old South. Planter, politician, and partisan of slavery, Hammond built a career for himself that in its breadth and...
The Allstons of Chicora Wood
Wealth, Honor, and Gentility in the South Carolina Lowcountry
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
William Kauffman Scarborough's absorbing biography, The Allstons of Chicora Wood, chronicles the history of a South Carolina planter family from the opulent antebellum years through the trauma of the Civil War and postwar period. Scarborough's examination of this extraordinarily enterprising family...
The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1607--1689
A History of the South
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
This book is Volume I of A HISTORY OF THE SOUTH, a ten-volume series designed to present a balanced history of all the complex aspects of the South’s culture from 1607 to the present. Like its companion volumes, The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century was written by an outstanding student...