Lsu Press: 854 books
by Mark R. Cheathem
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Many Americans view Andrew Jackson as a frontiersman who fought duels, killed Indians, and stole another man's wife. Historians have traditionally presented Jackson as a man who struggled to overcome the obstacles of his backwoods upbringing and helped create a more democratic United States. In his...
Scottsboro
A Tragedy of the American South
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Scottsboro tells the riveting story of one of this country's most famous and controversial court cases and a tragic and revealing chapter in the history of the American South. In 1931, two white girls claimed they were savagely raped by nine young black men aboard a freight train moving across northeastern...
From Slave to Statesman
The Life of Educator, Editor, and Civil Rights Activist Willis M. Carter of Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
In the 1980s, Willis McGlascoe Carter’s handwritten memoir turned up unexpectedly in the hands of a midwestern antiques dealer. Its twenty-two pages told a fascinating story of a man born into slavery in Virginia who, at the onset of freedom, gained an education, became a teacher, started a family,...
Albert Taylor Bledsoe
Defender of the Old South and Architect of the Lost Cause
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Albert Taylor Bledsoe (1809--1877), a principal architect of the South's "Lost Cause" mythology, remains one of the Civil War generation's most controversial intellectuals. In Albert Taylor Bledsoe: Defender of the Old South and Architect of the Lost Cause, Terry A. Barnhart sheds new light on this...
We Were Merchants
The Sternberg Family and the Story of Goudchaux's and Maison Blanche Department Stores
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
The words "Goudchaux's/Maison Blanche" conjure up a wealth of fond memories for local shoppers. At this landmark Louisiana department store, clerks greeted you by name; children received a nickel to buy a Coke and for every report-card A; families anticipated the holiday arrival of the beloved puppet...
Quest West
American Intellectual and Cultural Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Few spaces remain as central to American consciousness as the western frontier. The vast territory, which for generations fueled the desires and conquests of artists, philosophers, and politicians alike, now offers new discoveries in Richard Lehan's Quest West. Through an intellectual and cultural...
Becoming Cajun, Becoming American
The Acadian in American Literature from Longfellow to James Lee Burke
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
From antebellum times, Louisiana's unique multipartite society included a legal and social space for intermediary racial groups such as Acadians, Creoles, and Creoles of Color. In Becoming Cajun, Becoming American, Maria Hebert-Leiter explores how American writers have portrayed Acadian culture over...
Rationing Justice
Poverty Lawyers and Poor People in the Deep South
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Established in 1964, the federal Legal Services Program (later, Corporation) served a vast group of Americans desperately in need of legal counsel: the poor. In Rationing Justice, Kris Shepard looks at this pioneering program's effect on the Deep South, as the poor made tangible gains in cases involving...
Staff Picks
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
It’s Father’s Day 1972 and a young boy’s dad takes him to visit a string of unimpressive ex-girlfriends that could have been his mother; the unconventional detective work of a koan-speaking, Kung Fu–loving uncle solves a case of arson during a pancake breakfast; and a former geology professor,...
by Steve Scafidi
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
"Dying never / ends for us. It only slowly rearranges us," writes Steve Scafidi in his poignant new collection. Inspired by his own work as a cabinetmaker -- defined by the peppery dust from the woodworker planing a walnut board, turning an oak spindle at the lathe, or honing chisels while gazing...
by Jane Gentry
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
These rich, lyrical poems, written by Jane Gentry over ten years, register the resonance between the poet's inner being and the outer world's everyday events. Moments of insight -- gained while watching a roofer at work next door, napping with the cat, reading on the porch, carrying the laundry, or...
by Michael Perman
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
In The Southern Political Tradition, the distinguished southern historian Michael Perman explores the region's distinctive political practices and behaviors, primarily resulting from the South's perception of itself as a minority under attack from the 1820s to the 1960s. Drawing on his extensive research...
by William J. Cooper Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Initially published between 1970 and 2012, the essays in Approaching Civil War and Southern History span almost the entirety of William J. Cooper’s illustrious scholarly career and range widely across a broad spectrum of subjects in Civil War and southern history. Together, they illustrate the broad...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
“There are few people in the world who have more opportunity for getting close to the hot interesting things of one’s time than the special correspondent of a great paper,” George Lynch, a veteran British correspondent, wrote in Impressions of a War Correspondent, published in 1903. He made...