Böcker utgivna av Louisiana State University Press

After the US Civil War, Native Guard veterans took up the struggle for civil rights - in particular, voting rights - for Louisiana's black population. The Louisiana Native Guards is the first account to consider that struggle, placing the Native Guards' military service in the broader context of the civil rights movement.

On April 22, 1896, Martin Begnaud was brutally murdered in his general store in Scott Station, Louisiana. By intertwining a suspenseful account of this heinous crime with an exploration of the citizens it affected, No Spark of Malice provides insight into a fascinating people, place, and era.

Serves as a companion guide for readers who enjoy Walker Percy's novels but may be less familiar with the works of Sartre, Camus, Kierkegaard, and Dante. In addition to clarifying Percy's philosophies, Wilson highlights allusions to other writers within his narratives and addresses historical and political contexts.

With occupation, the home front and the battlefield merged to create an unanticipated second front where civilians - mainly women - resisted what they perceived as unjust domination. In this volume, historians consider how women's reactions to occupation affected both the strategies of military leaders and ultimately the outcome of the Civil War.

In February 1972, President Nixon arrived in Beijing for what Chairman Mao called the "week that changed the world." Using declassified sources from American, Chinese, European, and Soviet archives, Chris Tudda reveals how the relationship forged by the Nixon administration and the Chinese government that altered the trajectory of the Cold War.

An unprecedented window into the life of a Virginia bondsman, John Washington's Civil War communicates with real urgency what it meant to be a slave during a period of extreme crisis that sounded the notes of freedom for some and the end of a way of life for others.

With a well-earned reputation for tolerance of both prostitution and miscegenation, New Orleans became known as the Great Southern Babylon in antebellum times. Following the Civil War, a profound alteration in social and economic conditions gradually reshaped the city's sexual culture and erotic commerce. Historian Alecia P. Long traces sex in the Crescent City over fifty years, drawing from Louisiana Supreme Court case testimony to relate intriguing tales of people both obscure and famous whose relationships and actions exemplify the era. Long uncovers a connection between the geographical segregation of prostitution and the rising tide of racial segregation. She offers a compelling explanation of how New Orleans's lucrative sex trade drew tourists from the Bible Belt and beyond even as a nationwide trend toward the commercialization of sex emerged. And she dispels the romanticized smoke and perfume surrounding Storyville to reveal in the reasons for its rise and fall a fascinating corner of southern history. The Great Southern Babylon portrays the complex mosaic of race, gender, sexuality, social class, and commerce in turn-of-the-twentieth-century New Orleans.

Examines emancipation and the difficult transition from slavery to free labour in one enclave of the South - the cane sugar region of southern Louisiana. John Rodrigue demonstrates that the special geographical and environmental requirements of sugar production in Louisiana shaped new labour arrangements.

Husband and wife William and Ellen Craft's break from slavery in 1848 was perhaps the most extraordinary in American history. No account conveyed the ingenuity, daring, good fortune, and love that characterized their flight for freedom better than the couple's own version, published in 1860.

Explores the childbearing and -rearing responsibilities that consumed, often literally, the lives of women in the Old South. Sally McMillen explores the social, political, and medical influences of the time, and examines how a woman's maternal role ensured her value within the family and the greater society.

Provides the first comprehensive directory of the over 1,500 African Americans who held political office in the South during the Reconstruction era. The book presents an impressive amount of information about the antebellum status, occupations, property ownership, and military service of these officials.

An encyclopedia of the forms used by poets throughout the history of English, from blank verse to hymnal measure, from englyn penfyr to the double dactyl, from the clerihew to the sonnet. Each form is introduced with a brief discussion of its origin, which is followed by a graphic presentation of its scansion, metrics, and rhyme scheme.

A valuable and entertaining document that should find a place among the enduring books on the Civil War.

Located just north of Baton Rouge, Port Hudson, Louisiana, was the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River and the site of the longest genuine siege in American military history. This book offers a compelling account of the Confederate occupation of Port Hudson in August, 1862, and the Union's efforts to capture the stronghold.

This work returns the South's civil rights revolution of 1954-1965 to its historical context. It anchors the racial crises within other nonracial events of the postwar decade, and pursues its transforming and often paradoxical consequences through the quiet death of Jim Crow in the 1970s.

The contributions of more than 600 Catholic nuns to the care of Confederate and Union sick and wounded made a critical impact upon 19th-century America. This text covers this era in detail, describing the suspicion and prejudice, suffering and self-sacrifice, ingenuity, benificence, and gratitude.

Presents an iconoclastic interpretation of the political, military, and ethnic complexities of Andrew Jackson's involvement in the Creek War of 1813-1814 and the First Seminole War in 1818. Their exciting narrative shows how the general's unpredictable behaviour brought the US to the brink of an international crisis.

Taije Silverman's debut collection chronicles her family's devotion and dissolution through the death of her mother. Ranging in style from measured narratives to fragmented lyrics that convey the ambiguity of loss, these poems both arc into the past and question the possibility of the future.

The first-ever murder in the Paris Metro dominated the headlines for weeks during the summer of 1937, as the shocking truth about the victim was slowly revealed. Gayle Brunelle and Annette Finley-Croswhite unravel a complicated and mysterious life, assessing the victim's complex identity within the larger political context of the time.

No other Reconstruction state government was as chaotic or violent as Louisiana's, located in New Orleans, the largest southern city at the time. James Hogue explains the unique confluence of demographics, geography, and wartime events that made New Orleans an epicenter in the upheaval of Reconstruction politics.

In this groundbreaking work, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall studies Louisiana's creole slave community during the eighteenth century, focusing on the slaves' African origins, the evolution of their own language and culture, and the role they played in the formation of the broader society, economy, and culture of the region.

These 93 poems by Robert Morgan span 35 years.

Inthis text, Hilary Holladay offers the a full-length study of Lucille Clifton's poetry, drawing on a broad knowledge of the American poetic tradition and African American poetry in particula

Blending official documents and city council minutes with personal diaries and newspaper accounts, Emory Thomas vividly recounts the military, political, social, and economic experiences of the Confederate capital, providing a compelling drama of home-front war that, in Richmond's case, rivaled the spectacular events on the battlefield.

In her moving and deeply personal memoir, Ella Schneider Hilton chronicles her remarkable childhood - one that took her from the purges of Stalinist Russia to the refugee camps of Nazi and postwar Germany to the cotton fields of Jim Crow Mississippi before granting her access to the American dream.

Grounded in technical mastery, the poems in Out of Speech address issues both universal and timely. In this series of ekphrastic works, Adam Vines explores themes as varied as exile, family, disease, desire, and isolation through an array of twentieth- and twenty-first century painters.

Ten scholars of nineteenth-century America address the epochal impact of the Civil War by examining the conflict in terms of three Americas - antebellum, wartime, and postbellum nations. Moreover, they recognize the role in this transformative era of three groups of Americans - white northerners, white southerners, and African Americans.

Covering a broad geographic scope from Virginia to South Carolina between 1820 and 1860, Jeff Forret scrutinizes relations among rural poor whites and slaves, a subject previously unexplored and under-reported. Forret's findings challenge historians' long-held assumption that mutual violence and animosity characterized the two groups' interactions.

Explores gradations in the opposition to civil rights by examining how the American south's principal national spokesmen, its United States senators, addressed themselves to the civil rights question and developed a concerted plan of action to thwart legislation: the use of strategic delay.