Lsu Press imprint: 854 books
Haiti's Influence on Antebellum America
Slumbering Volcano in the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
The Haitian Revolution began in 1791 as a slave revolt on the French colonial island of Saint Domingue and ended thirteen years later with the founding of an independent black republic. Waves of French West Indians -- slaves, white colonists, and free blacks -- fled the upheaval and flooded southern...
The Defeat of Black Power
Civil Rights and the National Black Political Convention of 1972
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
For three days in 1972 in Gary, Indiana, eight thousand American civil rights activists and Black Power leaders gathered at the National Black Political Convention, hoping to end a years-long feud that divided black America into two distinct camps: integrationists and separatists. While some form...
by Urmi Engineer Willoughby
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
Through the innovative perspective of environment and culture, Urmi Engineer Willoughby examines yellow fever in New Orleans from 1796 to 1905. Linking local epidemics to the city’s place in the Atlantic world, Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans analyzes how incidences...
Flora and Fauna of the Civil War
An Environmental Reference Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
During the Civil War, humans impacted plants and animals on an unprecedented scale as soldiers on both sides waged the most environmentally destructive war ever on American soil. Refugees and armies alike tramped across the landscape foraging for food, shelter, and fuel. Wild plants and animals formed...
The Crosby Arboretum
A Sustainable Regional Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Since its genesis in 1980, Crosby Arboretum in southern Mississippi has attracted international recognition for its contributions to architecture, biology, and landscape design. Now owned and operated by Mississippi State University, Crosby is the first fully realized ecologically designed arboretum...
Inside the Carnival
Unmasking Louisiana Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
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Black Rage in New Orleans
Police Brutality and African American Activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
In Black Rage in New Orleans, Leonard N. Moore traces the shocking history of police corruption in the Crescent City from World War II to Hurricane Katrina and the concurrent rise of a large and energized black opposition to it. In New Orleans, crime, drug abuse, and murder were commonplace, and an...
Money, Power, and Elections
How Campaign Finance Reform Subverts American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Have campaign finance reform laws actually worked? Is money less influential in electing candidates today than it was thirty years ago when legislation was first enacted? Absolutely not, argues Rodney A. Smith in this passionately written, fact-filled, and provocative book. According to Smith, the...
A Cold War Turning Point
Nixon and China, 1969-1972
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
In February 1972, President Nixon arrived in Beijing for what Chairman Mao Zedong called the "week that changed the world." Using recently declassified sources from American, Chinese, European, and Soviet archives, Chris Tudda's A Cold War Turning Point reveals new details about the relationship forged...
Lincoln's Resolute Unionist
Hamilton Gamble, Dred Scott Dissenter and Missouri's Civil War Governor
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
As provisional governor of Missouri during the Civil War, Hamilton Gamble (1798--1864) worked closely with the Lincoln administration to keep the state from seceding from the Union. Without Gamble and other loyal Unionist governors, the war in the West might have been lost. Dennis Boman's full-scale...
Civil War Senator
William Pitt Fessenden and the Fight to Save the American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
One of the most talented and influential American politicians of the nineteenth century, William Pitt Fessenden (1806--1869) helped devise Union grand strategy during the Civil War. A native of Maine and son of a fiery New England abolitionist, he served in the United States Senate as a member of...
From Pigeons to News Portals
Foreign Reporting and the Challenge of New Technology
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Ever since the invention of the telegraph, journalists have sought to remove the barriers of time and space. Today, we readily accept that reporters can jet quickly to a distant location and broadcast instantly from a satellite-connected, video-enabled cell phone hanging from their belts. But now...
by Robert Mann, Shaun Gabbidon, Jackelyn Hwang
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
How Public Policy Impacts Racial Inequality, edited by Josh Grimm and Jaime Loke, brings together scholars of political science, sociology, and mass communication to provide an in-depth analysis of race in the United States through the lens of public policy. This vital collection outlines how issues...
Atchafalaya Houseboat
My Years in the Louisiana Swamp
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2006
In the early 1970s, two idealistic young people -- Gwen Carpenter Roland and Calvin Voisin -- decided to leave civilization and re-create the vanished simple life of their great-grandparents in the heart of Louisiana's million-acre Atchafalaya River Basin Swamp. Armed with a box of crayons and a book...