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Provides thoughtful, timely profiles of some of Louisiana's most highly regarded and popular contemporary authors. Readers interested in Louisiana's rich literary tradition will appreciate these evocative essays on writers whose works emanate from the cultures and landscapes of the Gulf South.

In this debut collection, Amy Meng meticulously strips a collapsing relationship for its parts. By dissecting the performativity and vulnerability of a person in love, with a singular precision, Meng's poems are marked by an unflinching drive to confront the most troubling parts of love.

In this pivotal book, the captivating and kinetic images of noted photographer Eric Waters are paired with a collection of insightful essays by preeminent authors and cultural leaders to offer the first complete look at the Social, Aid and Pleasure Club (SAPC) parade culture in New Orleans.

Follows four very different protagonists as they search for, and struggle with, connection. Pairing the emotional pursuit of connection with multiple forms of communication, Matthew Baker weaves the languages of HTML, maths, musical notations, and propositional logic into his storytelling in order to unveil nuances of experiences and emotions.

In this first monograph to consider Choctaw writer LeAnne Howe's entire body of work, Kirstin Squint expands contemporary scholarship on Howe by examining her nuanced portrayal of Choctaw history and culture as modes of expression.

In the early 1960s, civil rights activists and the Kennedy administration engaged in parallel, though not always complementary, efforts to overcome Mississippi's extreme opposition to racial desegregation. James Marshall uncovers this history through primary source documents.

Tells the comprehensive story of the integration of southern public libraries. As in other efforts to integrate civic institutions in the 1950s and 1960s, the determination of local activists won the battle against segregation in libraries.

Butterflies abound in every region of the Bayou State, and with this authoritative resource in hand, both the experienced and novice butterfly watcher can identify a frequent backyard visitor or pinpoint the haunts of a particular species.

The meanings and practices of American citizenship were as contested during the Civil War era as they are today. By examining a variety of perspectives, The Civil War and the Transformation of American Citizenship offers a wide-ranging exploration of citizenship's metamorphoses amid the extended crises of war and emancipation.

Uses letters, diaries, memoirs, newspaper articles, and muster rolls to provide a detailed account of the origins, enrollments, casualties, and desertion rates of the Army of Northern Virginia. Illustrations chart the Tigers' positions on key battlefields in the tumultuous campaigns throughout Virginia.

In an era during which the US Supreme Court handed down some of its most important decisions, three senators from South Carolina - Olin Johnston, Strom Thurmond, and Ernest Hollings - waged war on the court's progressive agenda. This book explores these senators' role in some of the most contentious confirmation battles in recent history.

Over the course of its history, the Catholic Church in Louisiana has witnessed a gradual shift from French to English, with some churches continuing to prepare marriage, baptism, and burial records in French as late as the mid-twentieth century. This book navigates this process, presenting a nuanced picture of language change within the Church.

Exploring the Crescent City from the ground up, Richard Campanella takes us on a winding journey toward explaining the city's distinct urbanism and eccentricities. Campanella - a historical geographer - reveals the why behind the where, delving into the historical and cultural forces that have shaped the spaces of New Orleans for three centuries.

Exploring the many complexities of transatlantic politics and culture, Peter O'Connor examines developing British ideas about US sectionalism, from the abolition of slavery in the British Empire and the Nullification Crisis in South Carolina to the Civil War.

In this latest collection from Lee Upton, characters navigate often bewildering situations, from the homeschooled girl trying to communicate telepathically with an injured man she finds on the beach to the experimental theater troupe (called the Community Playas) composed primarily of actors the story's narrator has wronged or been wronged by.

Offers a riveting collection of 150 photographs that capture this pivotal time in Louisiana's history. Organised by photographer, parish, and date, the revealing images reflect an era when extreme poverty exacerbated the divide between classes and races.

Using newspaper accounts and court records from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Joelle Biele's poems tell the personal stories of women who left their homes and families to tramp the roads and rails.

A haibun-patterned, book-length declamation in which no topic is off limits - Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, America, global warming, eros, mental illness, the natural world, technology, the aging body. Cushman's poetry shows us how to live in a world in which it is difficult to balance "the place where light and dark meet."

In her final collection, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Claudia Emerson quietly but fiercely explores the themes of mortality and time. This illuminating body of work displays a master poet at the height of her craft.

A book of love poems and elegies for those who have fumbled and stumbled and disappointed. These are poems of love and departure for romantic partners, family members, even countries and communities.

Mita Mahato is one of handful of artists and writers whose visionary work is defining the new genre of Poetry Comics. In Between is a collection of pieces that bring together simple, elegant expressions of thought and emotion with dreamlike mixed media artworks.

Through the innovative perspective of environment and culture, Urmi Engineer Willoughby examines yellow fever in New Orleans. Linking local epidemics to the city's place in the Atlantic world, Willoughby analyses how incidences of and responses to the disease grew out of an environment shaped by sugar, slavery, and urban development.

Uncovers how evangelical Christians in the border states influenced debates about slavery, morality, and politics from the 1830s to the 1890s. Using little-studied events and surprising incidents from the region, April Holm argues that evangelicals on the border powerfully shaped the regional structure of American religion in the Civil War era.

In the American imagination, the South is a place both sexually open and closed, outwardly chaste and inwardly sultry. This book demonstrates that there is no central theme that encompasses sex in the US South, but rather a rich variety of manifestations and embodiments influenced by race, gender, history, and social and political forces.

Fonville Winans achieved fame with his crisp black-and-white photographs of mid-century Louisiana life. But many locals also knew the renowned photographer as a passionate cook. The Fonville Winans Cookbook features over 100 recipes created by the world-famous photographer, often accompanied by his notes on his cooking trials.

Mardi Gras festivities don't end after the parades roll through the streets; rather, a large part of the celebration continues unseen by the general public. Retreating to theatres, convention centres, and banquet halls, krewes spend the post-parade evening at lavish balls. Jennifer Atkins draws back the curtain on the origin of these soirees.

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 process.

Lucy Wood Butler's diary provides a compelling account of one woman's struggle to come to terms with the realities of war on the Confederate home front. It brings to light a vital archival resource that reveals Lucy Butler's intimate observations on the attitudes and living conditions of many white middle-class women in the Civil War South.

With On to Petersburg, Gordon Rhea completes his much-lauded history of the Overland Campaign, a series of Civil War battles fought between Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in southeastern Virginia in the spring of 1864.