Lsu Press: 854 books
by Hank Trent
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Historians have long discussed the interracial families of prominent slave dealers in Richmond, Virginia, and elsewhere, yet, until now, the story of slave trader Bacon Tait remained untold. Among the most prominent and wealthy citizens of Richmond, Bacon Tait embarked upon a striking and unexpected...
A New Andalucia and a Way to the Orient
The American Southeast During the Sixteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Paul E. Hoffman's groundbreaking book focuses on a neglected area of colonial history -- southeastern North America during the sixteenth-century. Hoffman describes expeditions to the region, efforts at colonization, and rivalries between the French, Spanish, and English. He reveals the ways in which...
by David Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
One of the most eccentric and accomplished politicians in all of American history, John Randolph (1773--1833) led a life marked by controversy. The long-serving Virginia congressman and architect of southern conservatism grabbed headlines with his prescient comments, public brawls, and clashes with...
Generals in Gray
Lives of the Confederate Commanders
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2006
When Generals in Gray was published in 1959, scholars and critics immediately hailed it as one of the few indispensable books on the American Civil War. Historian Stanley Horn, for example, wrote, "It is difficult for a reviewer to restrain his enthusiasm in recommending a monumental book of this...
by Albert Castel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1993
Indeed, the story of General Price -- as this account by Albert Castle shows -- is the story, in large part, of the Confederacy's struggle in the West. The author draws a fascinating portrait of Price the man -- vain, courageous, addicted to secrecy -- and produces insightful interpretations and much pertinent information about the Civil War in the West.
Damn Yankees!
Demonization and Defiance in the Confederate South
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
During the Civil War, southerners produced a vast body of writing about their northern foes, painting a picture of a money-grubbing, puritanical, and infidel enemy. Damn Yankees! explores the proliferation of this rhetoric and demonstrates how the perpetual vilification of northerners became a weapon...
When the Devil Came Down to Dixie
Ben Butler in New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
Much controversy exists concerning Major General Benjamin F. Butler's administration in New Orleans during the second year of the Civil War. Some historians have extolled the general as a great humanitarian, while others have vilified him as a brazen opportunist, agreeing with the wealthy of occupied...
by Belle Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
First published in 1865, Belle Boyd's memoir of her experiences as a Confederate spy has stood the test of time and interest. Belle first gained notoriety when she killed a Union soldier in her home in 1861. During the Federal occupations of the Shenandoah Valley, she mingled with the servicemen and,...
John Bankhead Magruder
A Military Reappraisal
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Of all the major figures of the Civil War era, Confederate general John Bankhead Magruder is perhaps the least understood. The third-ranking officer in Virginia's forces behind Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston, Magruder left no diary, no completed memoirs, no will, not even a family Bible. There...
Programming National Identity
The Culture of Radio in 1930s France
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Radio provided a new and powerful medium in 1930s France. Devoted audiences responded avidly to their stations' programming and relied on radio as a source of daily entertainment, news, and other information. Within the comfortable, secure space of the home, audio culture reigned supreme. In Programming...
Blacklegs, Card Sharps, and Confidence Men
Nineteenth-Century Mississippi River Gambling Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
In 1836 Benjamin Drake, a midwestern writer of popular sketches for newspapers of the day, introduced his readers to a new and distinctly American rascal who rode the steamboats up and down the Mississippi and other western waterways -- the riverboat gambler. These men, he recorded, "dress with taste...
Look Away Dixieland
A Carpetbagger's Great-Grandson Travels Highway 84 in Search of the Shack-up-on-Cinder-Blocks, Confederate-Flag-Waving, Squirrel-Hunting, Boiled-Peanuts, Deep-Drawl, Don't-Stop-the-Car-Here South
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
As a boy, James Twitchell heard stories about his ancestors in Louisiana and even played with his great-grandfather's Civil War sword, but he never appreciated the state and the events that influenced a pivotal chapter in his family history. His great-grandfather, Marshall Harvey Twitchell, a carpetbagger...
Values in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design
Finding Center in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
The successful realization of diversity, resilience, usefulness, profitability, or beauty in landscape design requires a firm understanding of the stakeholders’ values. This collection, which incorporates a wide variety of geographic locations and cultural perspectives, reinforces the necessity...
A Southern Moderate in Radical Times
Henry Washington Hilliard, 1808-1892
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
In A Southern Moderate in Radical Times, David I. Durham offers a comprehensive and critical appraisal of one of the South's famous dissenters. Against the backdrop of one of the most turbulent periods in American history, he explores the ideological and political journey of Henry Washington Hilliard...