Lsu Press: 854 books
Parallel Histories
Muslims and Jews in Inquisitorial Spain
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
The distinct religious culture of early modern Spain -- characterized by religious unity at a time when fierce civil wars between Catholics and Protestants fractured northern Europe -- is further understood through examining the expulsion of the Jews and suspected Muslims. While these two groups had...
by William J. Cooper, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1980
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1980
The politics of slavery consumed the political world of the antebellum South. Although local economic, ethnic, and religious issues tended to dominate northern antebellum politics, The South and the Politics of Slavery convincingly argues that national and slavery-related issues were the overriding...
Chickasaw, a Mississippi Scout for the Union
The Civil War Memoir of Levi H. Naron, as Recounted by R. W. Surby
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
A well-to-do planter and slave owner in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, Levi Holloway Naron was an unlikely supporter of the Union. And yet, at the outbreak of war in 1861, his agitation against the Confederacy so outraged his fellow Mississippians that they drove him from his home. Bent on retaliation,...
A Wisconsin Yankee in Confederate Bayou Country
The Civil War Reminiscences of a Union General
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
General Halbert Eleazer Paine, commanding officer of the 4th Wisconsin Regiment of Volunteers, took part in most of the significant military actions in the lower Mississippi Valley during the Civil War. Nearly forty years after the conflict's end, Paine -- a former schoolteacher and attorney who would...
The War of 1812, Conflict and Deception
The British Attempt to Seize New Orleans and Nullify the Louisiana Purchase
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Perhaps no conflict in American history is more important yet more overlooked and misunderstood than the War of 1812. Begun by President James Madison after decades of humiliating British trade interference and impressment of American sailors, the war in many ways was the second battle for United...
Halleck
Lincoln's Chief of Staff
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1996
“Halleck originates nothing, anticipates nothing, to assist others; takes no responsibility, plans nothing, suggests nothing, is good for nothing.” Lincoln’s secretary of the navy Gideon Welles’s harsh words constitute the stereotype into which Union General-in-Chief Henry Wager Halleck has...
Gateway to the Confederacy
New Perspectives on the Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns, 1862-1863
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
A collection of ten new essays from some of our finest Civil War historians working today, Gateway to the Confederacy offers a reexamination of the campaigns fought to gain possession of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Each essay addresses how Americans have misconstrued the legacy of these struggles and...
Civil War Logistics
A Study of Military Transportation
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
During the Civil War, neither the Union nor the Confederate army could have operated without effective transportation systems. Moving men, supplies, and equipment required coordination on a massive scale, and Earl J. Hess’s Civil War Logistics offers the first comprehensive analysis of this vital...
In the Wake of War
Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War America
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
The Civil War era marked the dawn of American wars of military occupation, inaugurating a tradition that persisted through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and that continues to the present. In the Wake of War traces how volunteer and even professional soldiers found themselves tasked...
Citizen-Officers
The Union and Confederate Volunteer Junior Officer Corps in the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
From the time of the American Revolution, most junior officers in the American military attained their positions through election by the volunteer soldiers in their company, a tradition that reflected commitment to democracy even in times of war. By the outset of the Civil War, citizen-officers had...
Lincoln and McClellan at War
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
At the beginning of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln and his highest-ranking general, George B. McClellan, agreed that the United States must preserve the Union. Their differing strategies for accomplishing that goal, however, created constant conflict. In Lincoln and McClellan at War, Chester...
Executing Daniel Bright
Race, Loyalty, and Guerrilla Violence in a Coastal Carolina Community, 1861-1865
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
On December 18, 1863, just north of Elizabeth City in rural northeastern North Carolina, a large group of white Union officers and black enlisted troops under the command of Brigadier General Edward Augustus Wild executed a local citizen for his involvement in an irregular resistance to Union army...
Across the Bloody Chasm
The Culture of Commemoration among Civil War Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Long after the Civil War ended, one conflict raged on: the battle to define and shape the war's legacy. Across the Bloody Chasm deftly examines Civil War veterans' commemorative efforts and the concomitant -- and sometimes conflicting -- movement for reconciliation.
Though former soldiers from...
Fort Pillow, a Civil War Massacre, and Public Memory
Civil War Battlefields and Historic Sites Recaptured
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
At the now-peaceful spot of Tennessee's Fort Pillow State Historic Area, a horrific incident in the nation's bloodiest war occurred on April 12, 1864. Just as a high bluff in the park offers visitors a panoramic view of the Mississippi River, John Cimprich's absorbing book affords readers a new vantage...