Lsu Press: 854 books
Confederate General William Dorsey Pender
The Hope of Glory
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
During the Civil War, North Carolinian William Dorsey Pender established himself as one of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia's best young generals. He served in most of the significant engagements of the war in the eastern theater while under the command of Joseph E. Johnston at Seven Pines...
The Contest for the Delaware Valley
Allegiance, Identity, and Empire in the Seventeenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
In the first major examination of the diverse European efforts to colonize the Delaware Valley, Mark L. Thompson offers a bold new interpretation of ethnic and national identities in colonial America. For most of the seventeenth century, the lower Delaware Valley remained a marginal area under no...
Treating the Public
Charitable Theater and Civic Health in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
In Treating the Public, Rachael Ball presents a comparative history of commercial theater, public opinion, and charitable organizations in eight cities across the Spanish and Anglo-Atlantic worlds during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This innovative study uncovers the rapid expansion of...
Campbell Brown's Civil War
With Ewell in the Army of Northern Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
The Civil War writings of G. Campbell Brown—cousin, stepson, and staff officer of famed Confederate General Richard S. Ewell—provide a comprehensive account of the major campaigns in the north Virginia theater. Terry L. Jones has performed an invaluable service by gathering these widely scattered...
by U.S. War Department, Jeffrey Ethell
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1995
In 1944 the U.S. Army published this manual for its officers in the Pacific Theater an expanded version of the original 1942 manual of the same name—and ever since, it has been the best single reference source on the wartime Japanese military available in the English language. By 1944, the army...
Granbury's Texas Brigade
Diehard Western Confederates
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
John R. Lundberg's compelling new military history chronicles the evolution of Granbury's Texas Brigade, perhaps the most distinguished combat unit in the Confederate Army of Tennessee. Named for its commanding officer, Brigadier General Hiram B. Granbury, the brigade fought tenaciously in the western...
by Glenn A. Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2010
At the turn of the twentieth century, Honduras witnessed the expansion of its banana industry and the development of the United Fruit Company and Standard Fruit into multinational corporations with significant political and economic influence in Latin America and the Caribbean. These companies relied...
Breaking the Chains, Forging the Nation
The Afro-Cuban Fight for Freedom and Equality, 1812-1912
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
Breaking the Chains, Forging the Nation offers a new perspective on black political life in Cuba by analyzing the time between two hallmark Cuban events, the Aponte Rebellion of 1812 and the Race War of 1912. In so doing, this anthology provides fresh insight into the ways in which Cubans practiced...
by W. Craig Gaines
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
On the evening of February 2, 1864, Confederate Commander John Taylor Wood led 250 sailors in two launches and twelve boats to capture the USS Underwriter, a side-wheel steam gunboat anchored on the Neuse River near New Bern, North Carolina. During the ensuing fifteen-minute battle, nine Union crewmen...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
The Battle of New Orleans proved a critical victory for the United States, a young nation defending its nascent borders, but over the past two hundred years, myths have obscured the facts about the conflict. In The Battle of New Orleans in History and Memory, distinguished experts in military, social,...
Designing Gotham
West Point Engineers and the Rise of Modern New York, 1817-1898
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Between 1817 and 1898, New York City evolved from a vital Atlantic port of trade to the center of American commerce and culture. With this rapid commercial growth and cultural development, New York came to epitomize a nineteenth-century metropolis. Although this important urban transformation is well...
Surveying the Early Republic
The Journal of Andrew Ellicott, U.S. Boundary Commissioner in the Old Southwest, 1796-1800
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
In Surveying the Early Republic, Robert D. Bush contextualizes the firsthand account of Andrew Ellicott, the United States Boundary Commissioner appointed by President George Washington in 1796. Ellicott and his Spanish counterparts established the boundary line between the United States and Spanish...
by E. Fuller Torrey
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
During his brief yet remarkable career, abolitionist Charles Torrey -- called the "father of the Underground Railroad" by his peers -- assisted almost four hundred slaves in gaining their freedom. A Yale graduate and an ordained minister, Torrey set up a well-organized route for escaped slaves traveling...
Marc-Antoine Caillot and the Company of the Indies in Louisiana
Trade in the French Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Between 1717 and 1731, the French Company of the Indies (Compagnie des Indes) held a virtual monopoly over Louisiana culture and trade. Among numerous controls, its administrators oversaw the slave trade, the immigration of free and indentured whites, negotiations with Native American peoples, and...