Lsu Press: 854 books
Counterfeit Justice
The Judicial Odyssey of Texas Freedwoman Azeline Hearne
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
For many of the forty years of her life as a slave, Azeline Hearne cohabitated with her wealthy, unmarried master, Samuel R. Hearne. She bore him four children, only one of whom survived past early childhood. When Sam died shortly after the Civil War ended, he publicly acknowledged his relationship...
From Bauhaus to Ecohouse
A History of Ecological Design
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Global warming and concerns about sustainability recently have pushed ecological design to the forefront of architectural study and debate. As Peder Anker explains in From Bauhaus to Ecohouse, despite claims of novelty, debates about environmentally sensitive architecture have been ongoing for nearly...
No More Heroes
Narrative Perspective and Morality in Cormac McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Critics often trace the prevailing mood of despair and purported nihilism in the works of Cormac McCarthy to the striking absence of interior thought in his seemingly amoral characters. In No More Heroes, however, Lydia Cooper reveals that though McCarthy limits inner revelations, he never eliminates...
John Brown Gordon
Soldier, Southerner, American
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
John Brown Gordon’s career of prominent public service spanned four of America’s most turbulent decades. Born in Upson County, Georgia, in 1832, Gordon practiced law in Atlanta and, in the years immediately preceding the Civil War, developed coal mines in northwest Georgia. In 1861, he responded...
by Martha Turnbull
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
Recovered in the mid-1990s from the attic of a Turnbull family descendant, Martha Turnbull's garden diary offers the most extensive surviving first-hand account of nineteenth-century plantation life and gardening in the Deep South.
Landscape architecture professor and preservationist Suzanne Turner...
George Mason
Reluctant Statesman
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1980
George Mason of Gunston Hall was a scholarly craftsman of government during America's crucial formative years. His Virginia Declaration of Rights provided a sense of purpose and direction to the rebellious colonies, and his vigorous insistence on the protection of personal liberties in the Constitution...
A Politics of Understanding
The International Thought of Raymond Aron
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Frequently hailed as one of the greatest defenders of democratic liberalism in postwar Europe, French philosopher, sociologist, and political commentator Raymond Aron (1905--1983) left behind a staggering amount of published work on a remarkably wide range of topics both scholarly and popular. In...
by Eve Abrams
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Preservation Hall, located in the French Quarter just three blocks from the Mississippi River, remains an icon of New Orleans and an essential stop for all fans of traditional jazz. Since the early 1960s "The Hall" has served as a sanctuary for the Crescent City's rich and illustrious jazz heritage,...
Revenge of the Teacher's Pet
A Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Fifty-year-old science teacher Dale Portwit believes that the peak of his life has come and gone. A failed suicide, a food fetishist, so isolated that the Best Man at his wedding is a framed photograph of his former mailman, Mr. Portwit resolves to live entirely for the moment, to speak his mind at...
These Extremes
Poems and Prose
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
In his first collection of poetry and prose, award-winning fiction writer Richard Bausch proves that he is also an accomplished poet. Penned over a span of many years, the poems in These Extremes deal with a wide variety of subjects. Many focus on Bausch’s own family and relationships. In one long,...
Cruise of the Pintail
A Journal
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
In 1932 a young Fonville Winans (1911--1992) left his home in Fort Worth and set out on the waterways of south Louisiana searching for adventure and fortune. This journal recounts, in his own words, how the now-renowned photographer and his two friends -- first mate Bob Owen and second mate Don Horridge...
Gendered Politics in the Modern South
The Susan Smith Case and the Rise of a New Sexism
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
In the fall of 1994 Susan Smith, a young mother from Union, South Carolina, reported that an African American male carjacker had kidnapped her two children. The news sparked a multi-state investigation and evoked nationwide sympathy. Nine days later, she confessed to drowning the boys in a nearby...
China Mission
A Personal History from the Last Imperial Dynasty to the People's Republic
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
When the Reverend Halvor Ronning, his sister Thea, and fellow missionary Hannah Rorem set out in 1891 to found a Lutheran mission and school in the interior of China, they could not have foreseen the ways in which that decision would ripple across generations of the Ronning family. Halvor and Hannah...
Christina Rossetti
Faith, Gender and Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1999
Since Arthur Symons’s declaration in 1895 in the Saturday Review that Christina Rossetti was “among the great poets of the nineteenth century,” Rossetti’s image among critics has undergone permutations as divergent as Victorian culture is from postmodern. Now Diane D’Amico redeems Rossetti...