Lsu Press imprint: 854 books
by Timothy L. Wesley
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In The Politics of Faith during the Civil War, Timothy L. Wesley examines the engagement of both northern and southern preachers in politics during the American Civil War, revealing an era of denominational, governmental, and public scrutiny of religious leaders. Controversial ministers risked ostracism...
Acadian Odyssey
Race and Americanization
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
First published in 1955, Oscar Winzerling's Acadian Odyssey has remained unsurpassed as a study of the exodus of 1755.
Following their eviction from Nova Scotia by the English, many hundreds of Acadians spent years in various seaport concentration camps in England before reuniting with their...
Defying Disfranchisement
Black Voting Rights Activism in the Jim Crow South, 1890-1908
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2010
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Jim Crow strengthened rapidly and several southern states adopted new constitutions designed primarily to strip African American men of their right to vote. Since the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibited eliminating voters...
University Builder
Edgar Odell Lovett and the Founding of the Rice Institute
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Rice University, one of America's preeminent institutions of higher education, grew out of the vision, direction, and leadership of one man: Edgar Odell Lovett (1871--1957). University Builder is the fascinating story of this extraordinary educator and the unique school he created. Widely acknowledged,...
An Absolute Massacre
The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
In the summer of 1866, racial tensions ran high in Louisiana as a constitutional convention considered disenfranchising former Confederates and enfranchising blacks. On July 30, a procession of black suffrage supporters pushed through an angry throng of hostile whites. Words were exchanged, shots...
by John L. Ward
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
This biography by John Ward, a former member of Rockefeller's staff and director of his 1968 reelection campaign, presents the story of the first Rockefeller ever to live south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Winthrop Rockefeller was a man whose determination to build a viable two-party system in Arkansas...
Lincoln, The South, and Slavery
The Political Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1993
Homegrown Yankees
Tennessee's Union Cavalry in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Of all the states in the Confederacy, Tennessee was the most sectionally divided. East Tennesseans opposed secession at the ballot box in 1861, petitioned unsuccessfully for separate statehood, resisted the Confederate government, enlisted in Union militias, elected U.S. congressmen, and fled as refugees...
Lee's Tigers Revisited
The Louisiana Infantry in the Army of Northern Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
In Lee’s Tigers Revisited, noted Civil War scholar Terry L. Jones dramatically expands and revises his acclaimed history of the approximately twelve thousand Louisiana infantrymen who fought in Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Sometimes derided as the “wharf rats from New Orleans”...
by R. Kent Newmyer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
John Marshall (1755--1835) was arguably the most important judicial figure in American history. As the fourth chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from 1801 to1835, he helped move the Court from the fringes of power to the epicenter of constitutional government. His great opinions...
Mencken on Mencken
A New Collection of Autobiographical Writings
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
"Mencken weighs 172 pounds, is 5 feet 10 inches in height and not beautiful. His chief amusement, after reading, is piano-playing, this he does very crudely. He takes no exercise except walking and is a moderate eater and drinker. He sometimes drinks as little as one bottle of beer a week, though...
Gather at the River
Notes from the Post-Millennial South
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
To read Hal Crowther is to find yourself agreeing with views on topics you never knew you cared so much about. In Gather at the River, Crowther extends the wide-angle vision of Southern life presented in his highly acclaimed collection Cathedrals of Kudzu. He cuts to the heart of recent political,...
Art Matters
Hemingway, Craft, and the Creation of the Modern Short Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
In Art Matters, Robert Paul Lamb provides the definitive study of Ernest Hemingway's short story aesthetics. Lamb locates Hemingway's art in literary historical contexts and explains what he learned from earlier artists, including Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Cézanne, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant, Anton...
Earth, Mercy
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
In her new collection, Earth, Mercy, Mary Rose O'Reilley sifts through the debris of human habitation -- pink thong sandals, curlers, broken televisions -- looking for a kind of junkyard grace: "Holiness enters again / turquoise fins, and the Cessna's carapace / lifts on its wind."
The first...