Lsu Press: 854 books
The Ongoing Burden of Southern History
Politics and Identity in the Twenty-First-Century South
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
More than fifty years after its initial publication, C. Vann Woodward's landmark work, The Burden of Southern History, remains an essential text on the southern past. Today, a "southern burden" still exists, but its shape and impact on southerners and the world varies dramatically from the one envisioned...
by Robin C. Sager
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
In Marital Cruelty in Antebellum America, Robin C. Sager probes the struggles of aggrieved spouses shedding light on the nature of marriage and violence in the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War. Analyzing over 1,500 divorce records that reveal intimate details of marriages in conflict...
U.S. Military Intervention in the Post-Cold War Era
How to Win America's Wars in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
During the post--World War II era, American foreign policy prominently featured direct U.S. military intervention in the Third World. Yet the cold war placed restraints on where and how Washington could intervene until the collapse of the former Soviet Union removed many of the barriers to -- and...
Abraham Lincoln and Treason in the Civil War
The Trials of John Merryman
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
In the spring of 1861, Union military authorities arrested Maryland farmer John Merryman on charges of treason against the United States for burning railroad bridges around Baltimore in an effort to prevent northern soldiers from reaching the capital. From his prison cell at Fort McHenry, Merryman...
American Narratives
Multiethnic Writing in the Age of Realism
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
American Narratives takes readers back to the turn of the twentieth century to reintroduce four writers of varying ethnic backgrounds whose works were mostly ignored by critics of their day. With the skill of a literary detective, Molly Crumpton Winter recovers an early multicultural discourse on...
Robert Penn Warren after Audubon
The Work of Aging and the Quest for Transcendence in His Later Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Despite nearly universal critical acclaim for Robert Penn Warren's later poetry, much about this large body of work remains unexplored, especially the psychological sources of these poems' remarkable energy. In this groundbreaking work, Warren scholar Joseph R. Millichap takes advantage of current...
Civil War Infantry Tactics
Training, Combat, and Small-Unit Effectiveness
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
For decades, military historians have argued that the introduction of the rifle musket-with a range five times longer than that of the smoothbore musket-made the shoulder-to-shoulder formations of linear tactics obsolete. Author Earl J. Hess challenges this deeply entrenched assumption. He contends...
Gentle Tiger
The Gallant Life of Roberdeau Wheat
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
Chatham Roberdeau Wheat has rightly been called the grandest of Civil War heroes. Born a Virginia gentleman, this handsome giant was by turns lawyer, politician, filibusterer, wit, bon vivant, and soldier of fortune. Perhaps the most experienced soldier on either side at the outbreak of the Civil...
A Broken Regiment
The 16th Connecticut's Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
A Broken Regiment recounts the tragic history of one of the Civil War's most ill-fated Union military units. Organized in the late summer of 1862, the 16th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry was unprepared for battle a month later, when it entered the fight at Antietam. The results were catastrophic:...
Jim Crow’s Last Stand
Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2019
A remnant of the racist post-Reconstruction Redeemer sociopolitical agenda, Louisiana’s nonunanimous jury-verdict law permitted juries to convict criminal defendants with only nine, and later ten, out of twelve votes: a legal oddity. On the surface, it was meant to speed convictions. In practice,...
The Complete Antislavery Writings of Anthony Benezet, 1754-1783
An Annotated Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Pennsylvanian Quaker Anthony Benezet was one of the most important and prolific abolitionists of the eighteenth century. The first to combine religious and philosophical arguments with extensive documentation of the slave trade based on eyewitness reports from Africa and the colonies, Benezet's antislavery...
The Ideology of Slavery
Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South, 1830–1860
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1981
In one volume, these essentially unabridged selections from the works of the proslavery apologists are now conveniently accessible to scholars and students of the antebellum South. The Ideology of Slavery includes excerpts by Thomas R. Dew, founder of a new phase of proslavery militancy; William Harper...
Upon the Fields of Battle
Essays on the Military History of America's Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
New developments in Civil War scholarship owe much to removal of artificial divides by historians seeking to explore the connections between the home front and the battlefield. Indeed, scholars taking a holistic view of the war have contributed to our understanding of the social complexities of emancipation—of...
Senator James Eastland
Mississippi's Jim Crow Democrat
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
In the years following World War II, the national Democratic Party aligned its agenda more and more with the goals of the civil rights movement. By contrast, a majority of southern Democrats remained as committed as ever to a traditional, segregationist ideology. Through the career of Senator James...