Lsu Press: 854 books
Delaying the Dream
Southern Senators and the Fight against Civil Rights, 1938-1965
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Few historical events lend themselves to such a sharp delineation between right and wrong as does the civil rights struggle. Consequently, many historical accounts of white resistance to civil rights legislation emphasize the ferocity of the opposition, from the Ole Miss riots to the depredations...
Democracy's Lawyer
Felix Grundy of the Old Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
A central political figure in the first post-Revolutionary generation, Felix Grundy (1775--1840) epitomized the "American democrat" who so famously fascinated Alexis de Tocqueville. Born and reared on the isolated frontier, Grundy rose largely by his own ability to become the Old Southwest's greatest...
Displaced Person
A Girl's Life in Russia, Germany, and America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
In her moving and deeply personal memoir, Ella E. Schneider Hilton chronicles her remarkable childhood -- one that took her from the purges of Stalinist Russia to the refugee camps of Nazi and postwar Germany to the cotton fields of Jim Crow Mississippi before granting her access to the American dream....
Uncivil War
Five New Orleans Street Battles and the Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
No other Reconstruction state government was as chaotic or violent as Louisiana's, located in New Orleans, the largest southern city at the time. James K. Hogue explains the unique confluence of demographics, geography, and wartime events that made New Orleans an epicenter in the upheaval of Reconstruction...
by Kirstin L. Squint
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
With the publication of her first novel, Shell Shaker (2001), Choctaw writer LeAnne Howe quickly emerged as a crucial voice in twenty-first-century American literature. Her innovative, award-winning works of fiction, poetry, drama, and criticism capture the complexities of Native American life and...
Elusive Utopia
The Struggle for Racial Equality in Oberlin, Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
Before the Civil War, Oberlin, Ohio, stood in the vanguard of the abolition and black freedom movements. The community, including co-founded Oberlin College, strove to end slavery and establish full equality for all. Yet, in the half-century after the Union victory, Oberlin’s resolute stand for...
Railroads in the Civil War
The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
By the time of the Civil War, the railroads had advanced to allow the movement of large numbers of troops even though railways had not yet matured into a truly integrated transportation system. Gaps between lines, incompatible track gauges, and other vexing impediments remained in both the North and...
by Gary W. Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
In this collection, Civil War historian Gary W. Gallagher examines Robert E. Lee, his principal subordinates, the treatment they have received in the literature on Confederate military history, and the continuing influence of Lost Cause arguments in the late-twentieth-century United States. Historical...
Greyhound Commander
Confederate General John G. Walker's History of the Civil War West of the Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
While a political refugee in London, former Confederate general John G. Walker wrote a history of the Civil War west of the Mississippi River. Walker's account, composed shortly after the war and unpublished until now, remains one of only two memoirs by high-ranking Confederate officials who fought...
by Bruce S. Allardice
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
In this masterpiece of research, a splendid supplement to Ezra J. Warner's Generals in Gray, Bruce S. Allardice brings to light a neglected class of officers: the Confederacy's "other" generals -- men who attained their rank outside the usual avenue of appointment by President Jefferson Davis and...
by Arthur W. Bergeron Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
"In most standard texts on the Civil War, Mobile appears only in reference to the famous Battle of Mobile Bay. It is thus refreshing to find a work that illuminates the complete war years of this major southern city.... Confederate Mobile is an indispensable and thoroughly researched volume on Mobile's...
Thank God My Regiment an African One
The Civil War Diary of Colonel Nathan W. Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
"Incredible!... Anyone interested in the hardship, frustration, and courage of soldiers at war will be enthralled by this book." -- James G. Hollandsworth, author of The Louisiana Native Guards
Until now, Union army colonel Nathan W. Daniels has been a forgotten man with a forgotten regiment. The...
by Jonathan W. White
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
The Union army's overwhelming vote for Abraham Lincoln's reelection in 1864 has led many Civil War scholars to conclude that the soldiers supported the Republican Party and its effort to abolish slavery. In Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln Jonathan W. White challenges...
Confederate Outlaw
Champ Ferguson and the Civil War in Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
In the fall of 1865, the United States Army executed Confederate guerrilla Champ Ferguson for his role in murdering fifty-three loyal citizens of Kentucky and Tennessee during the Civil War. Long remembered as the most unforgiving and inglorious warrior of the Confederacy, Ferguson has often been...