Lsu Press: 854 books
The Bone Lady
Life As a Forensic Anthropologist
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
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by Bryan Giemza
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
In this comprehensive study, Bryan Giemza retrieves a missing chapter of Irish Catholic heritage by canvassing the literature of American Irish writers from the U.S. South.
Beginning with the first Irish American novel, published in Winchester, Virginia, in 1817, Giemza investigates nineteenth-century...
Atomic Testing in Mississippi
Project Dribble and the Quest for Nuclear Weapons Treaty Verification in the Cold War Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
In Atomic Testing in Mississippi, David Allen Burke illuminates the nearly forgotten history of America's only nuclear detonations east of the Mississippi River. The atomic tests, conducted in the mid-1960s nearly 3,000 feet below ground in Mississippi's Tatum Salt Dome, posed a potential risk for...
Crooked Run
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
The poems in Crooked Run arise from the landscape, people, and history of a small patch of rural northern Virginia that was once Henry Taylor's home. Taylor moves back and forth over several centuries telling the stories of Loudoun County, part of which is watered by Crooked Run. The stream becomes...
Bayou Classic
The Grambling-Southern Football Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
The annual clash in New Orleans between the Grambling State University Tigers and the Southern University Jaguars represents the fiercest and most anticipated in-state football rivalry in Louisiana. The most significant national game to feature historically black colleges and universities is more...
Alabamians in Blue
Freedmen, Unionists, and the Civil War in the Cotton State
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
Alabamians in Blue offers an in-depth scholarly examination of Alabama’s black and white Union soldiers and their contributions to the eventual success of the Union army in the western theater. Christopher M. Rein contends that the state’s anti-Confederate residents tendered an important service...
The Cottoncrest Curse
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
The bodies of an elderly colonel and his comely young wife are discovered on the staircase of their stately plantation home, their blood still dripping down the wooden balustrades. Within the sheltered walls of Cottoncrest, Augustine and Rebecca Chastaine have met their deaths under the same shroud...
Writing beyond Prophecy
Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville after the American Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Writing beyond Prophecy offers a new interpretation of the American Renaissance by drawing attention to a cluster of later, rarely studied works by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. Identifying a line of writing from Emerson's Conduct of Life to Hawthorne's posthumously...
Second Nature
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
“Learn of the green world what can be thy place,” wrote Ezra Pound. In Second Nature, her tenth collection of poems, Margaret Gibson takes Pound’s stern counsel to heart. With stunning clarity, these poems move from acute observation to an empathy, participation, and intimacy that continues...
The Swing Girl
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
In the title poem of The Swing Girl, a Greek burial relic with an image of a small child on her swing suggests the ability to move between present culture and the ghosts of history, between modern metaphor and the rhetoric of myth. Katherine Soniat celebrates this fluidity and the detached yet vulnerable...
by Jeffrey E. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
From black sorcerers' client-based practices in the antebellum South to the postmodern revival of hoodoo and its tandem spiritual supply stores, the supernatural has long been a key component of the African American experience. What began as a mixture of African, European, and Native American influences...
by Anya Krugovoy Silver
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Anya Krugovoy Silver’s debut collection considers the flawed and gaudy flesh as it turns toward a beloved’s embrace, toward the surgeon’s knife. Her poems both celebrate the sensual world and seek to transcend the body’s limitations through encounters with art, memory, and the divine. At once...
The White House Looks South
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Perhaps not southerners in the usual sense, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and Lyndon B. Johnson each demonstrated a political style and philosophy that helped them influence the South and unite the country in ways that few other presidents have. Combining vivid biography and political insight,...
Rough Fugue
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Betty Adcock brings fierce insight to her seventh poetry collection, Rough Fugue. Her elegant stanzas evoke bygone moments of beauty, reflection, and rage. “Let things be spare,” she writes, “and words for things be thin / as the slice of moon / the loon’s cry snips.” Adcock’s poems are...