Lsu Press: 854 books
The Cemeteries of New Orleans
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
In The Cemeteries of New Orleans, Peter B. Dedek reveals the origins and evolution of the Crescent City’s world-famous necropolises, exploring both their distinctive architecture and their cultural impact. Spanning centuries, this fascinating body of research takes readers from muddy fields of crude...
Revolutionary Emancipation
Slavery and Abolitionism in the British West Indies
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Skillfully weaving an African worldview into the conventional historiography of British abolitionism, Claudius K. Fergus presents new insights into one of the most intriguing and momentous episodes of Atlantic history. In Revolutionary Emancipation, Fergus argues that the 1760 rebellion in Jamaica,...
Fenians, Freedmen, and Southern Whites
Race and Nationality in the Era of Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
After the American Civil War, several movements for ethnic separatism and political self-determination significantly shaped the course of Reconstruction. The Union Leagues mobilized African Americans to fight for their political rights and economic security while the Ku Klux Klan used intimidation...
The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and the Kennedy Administration, 1960-1964
A History in Documents
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2018
In the early 1960s, civil rights activists and the Kennedy administration engaged in parallel, though not always complementary, efforts to overcome Mississippi’s extreme opposition to racial desegregation. In The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and the Kennedy Administration, 1960–1964, James...
Desegregating Private Higher Education in the South
Duke, Emory, Rice, Tulane, and Vanderbilt
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
After World War II, elite private universities in the South faced growing calls for desegregation. Though, unlike their peer public institutions, no federal court ordered these schools to admit black students and no troops arrived to protect access to the schools, to suggest that desegregation at...
Race, Labor, and Civil Rights
Griggs versus Duke Power and the Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
In 1966, thirteen black employees of the Duke Power Company's Dan River Plant in Draper, North Carolina, filed a lawsuit against the company challenging its requirement of a high school diploma or a passing grade on an intelligence test for internal transfer or promotion. In the groundbreaking decision...
Normans and Saxons
Southern Race Mythology and the Intellectual History of the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
When Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina savagely caned Senator Charles Sumner Massachusetts on the floor of the U.S. Senate on May 21, 1856, southerners viewed the attack as a triumphant affirmation of southern chivalry, northerners as a confirmation of southern barbarity. Public opinion...
Halls of Honor
College Men in the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
A powerful confluence of youthful energies and entrenched codes of honor enlivens Robert F. Pace's look at the world of male student college life in the antebellum South. Through extensive research into records, letters, and diaries of students and faculty from more than twenty institutions, Pace...
A Secession Crisis Enigma
William Henry Hurlbert and "The Diary of a Public Man"
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
"The Diary of a Public Man," published anonymously in several installments in the North American Review in 1879, claimed to offer verbatim accounts of secret conversations with Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward, and Stephen A. Douglas -- among others -- in the desperate weeks just before the start...
Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana
Confederate General and New South Reformer
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana offers the first biography of one of Louisiana's most intriguing nineteenth-century politicians and a founder of Tulane University. Gibson (1832--1892) grew up on his family's sugar plantation in Terrebonne Parish and was educated at Yale University before studying...
Voices from an Early American Convent
Marie Madeleine Hachard and the New Orleans Ursulines, 1727–1760
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
In 1727, twelve nuns left France to establish a community of Ursuline nuns in New Orleans, the capital of the French colony of Louisiana. Notable for founding a school that educated all free girls, regardless of social rank, the Ursulines also ran an orphanage, administered the colony's military hospital,...
Race and Education in North Carolina
From Segregation to Desegregation
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
The separation of white and black schools remained largely unquestioned and unchallenged in North Carolina for the first half of the twentieth century, yet by the end of the 1970s, the Tar Heel State operated the most thoroughly desegregated school system in the nation. In Race and Education in North...
Defying Jim Crow
African American Community Development and the Struggle for Racial Equality in New Orleans, 1900-1960
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
From the earliest days of Jim Crow, African Americans in New Orleans rallied around the belief that the new system of racially biased laws, designed to relegate them to second-class citizenship, was neither legitimate nor permanent. Drawing on shared memories of fluid race relations and post-Civil...
by C. Vann Woodward
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
C. Vann Woodward's The Burden of Southern History remains one of the essential history texts of our time. In it Woodward brilliantly addresses the interrelated themes of southern identity, southern distinctiveness, and the strains of irony that characterize much of the South's historical experience....