Lsu Press: 854 books
by Ray Neyland
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Any appreciation of Louisiana's beautiful outdoors must include the lush variety of the state's ferns and lycophytes. Their striking diversity in form, color, and size makes identifying the array of species in the region enjoyable for hobbyists and professionals alike.
With illustrations and full-color...
American Energy, Imperiled Coast
Oil and Gas Development in Louisiana's Wetlands
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
In the post--World War II era, Louisiana's coastal wetlands underwent an industrial transformation that placed the region at the center of America's energy-producing corridor. By the twenty-first century the Louisiana Gulf Coast supplied nearly one-third of America's oil and gas, accounted for half...
Fair Labor Lawyer
The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Through a life that spanned every decade of the twentieth century, Supreme Court advocate Bessie Margolin shaped modern American labor policy while creating a place for female lawyers in the nation's highest courts. Despite her beginnings in an orphanage and her rare position as a southern, Jewish...
Tempest
Hurricane Naming and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Liz Skilton’s innovative study tracks the naming of hurricanes over six decades, exploring the interplay between naming practice and wider American culture. In 1953, the U.S. Weather Bureau adopted female names to identify hurricanes and other tropical storms. Within two years, that convention came...
Modern Baptists
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Universally and repeatedly praised ever since it first appeared in 1983, Modern Baptists is the book that launched novelist James Wilcox's career and debuted the endearingly daft community of Tula Springs, Louisiana. It's the tale of Bobby Pickens, assistant manager of Sonny Boy Bargain Store, who...
by Arthur W. Bergeron Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
“Bergeron has produced a book. . . essential to the serious Confederate scholar.”—Journal of American History
In Guide to Louisiana Confederate Military Units, Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr., examines the 111 artillery, cavalry, and infantry units that Louisiana furnished to the Confederate...
Bone Remains
Cold Cases in Forensic Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Over the past thirty years, forensic anthropologist Mary H. Manhein has helped authorities to identify hundreds of deceased persons throughout Louisiana and beyond. In Bone Remains, she offers details of twenty riveting cases from her files -- many of them involving facial reconstructions where only...
Slavery, Civil War, and Salvation
African American Slaves and Christianity, 1830-1870
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
During the Civil War, traditional history tells us, Afro-Christianity proved a strong force for slaves' perseverance and hope of deliverance. In Slavery, Civil War, and Salvation, however, Daniel Fountain raises the possibility that Afro-Christianity played a less significant role within the antebellum...
Radical Spiritual Motherhood
Autobiography and Empowerment in Nineteenth-Century African American Women
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
In this cutting-edge work, Rosetta R. Haynes explores the spiritual autobiographies of five nineteenth-century female African American itinerant preachers to discover the ways in which they drew upon religion and the material conditions of their lives to fashion powerful personas that enabled them...
Judging Maria de Macedo
A Female Visionary and the Inquisition in Early Modern Portugal
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
On February 20, 1665, the Inquisition of Lisbon arrested Maria de Macedo, the wife of a midlevel official of the Portuguese Treasury, after she revealed during a deposition that, since she was ten years old, an enchanted Moor had frequently "taken" her to a magical castle in the legendary land of...
Splendors of Faith
New Orleans Catholic Churches, 1727-1930
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
A gumbo of French, Spanish, and American influences, the architecture of New Orleans has always reflected the city's strong Catholic roots. Indeed, St. Louis Cathedral across from Jackson Square stands as perhaps the most widely recognized face of New Orleans. The cathedral, though, is just one of...
Lottie Moon
A Southern Baptist Missionary to China in History and Legend
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Legendary Southern Baptist missionary Charlotte "Lottie" Moon played a pivotal role in revolutionizing southern civil society. Her involvement in the establishment of the Women's Missionary Union provided white Baptist women with an alternate means of gaining and asserting power within the denomination's...
A Jackson Man
Amos Kendall and the Rise of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
"Well researched... and well written, this work gives us Kendall, warts and all. We see the avarice, the ambition, and the contradictions of his subject.... This is biography at its best." -- Journal of American History
A rare, fascinating personality emerges in Donald B. Cole's biography of Amos...
Small Mothers of Fright
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
In Small Mothers of Fright, Tara Bray draws on her experiences as a mother struggling to strike a balance between protecting her daughter from the world’s perils and dazzling her with its many wonders. The birds that fill these pages convey a sense of fragility and uncertainty, while the rhythm...