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Throughout the Civil War, irregular warfare, including the use of hit-and-run assaults, ambushes, and raiding tactics, thrived in localized guerrilla fights. The Guerrilla Hunters offers a comprehensive overview of the tactics, motives, and actors in these conflicts.

Records in poetry the life and times of one of America's best-known scientists, the father of the atomic bomb who later lobbied for containment of nuclear weaponry. In brief, elegant stanzas, Kelly Cherry examines Oppenheimer's inspirations, dreams, and values, visiting the events, places, and people that inspired him or led him to despair.

The Battle of New Orleans proved a critical victory for the US, but over the past two hundred years, myths have obscured the facts about the conflict. In this book, experts in military, social, art, and music history sift the real from the remembered, illuminating the battle's lasting significance across multiple disciplines.

Slim Harpo established Baton Rouge as a base for the blues. In the only complete biography of this internationally renowned blues singer and musician, Martin Hawkins traces Harpo's rural upbringing near Louisiana's capital, his professional development fostered by the local music scene, and his national success.

Scholar Catherine Clinton reflects on the roles of women as historical actors within the field of Civil War studies and examines the ways in which historians have redefined female wartime participation.

James Lee Burke developed the character of Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux through twenty mystery novels published over three decades. In Robicheaux's Roots, Patricia Gaitely explores the music, food, language, and folklore of southwest Louisiana and illuminates the cultural sources that Burke incorporated into this gripping series.

In July 1862, Union Lieutenant Stephen Spalding wrote a long letter from his post in Algiers, Louisiana, to his former college roommate. Equally fascinating and unsettling for modern readers, the comic cynicism of the young soldier's correspondence offers a candid and intimate account of military life and social change on the southern front.

Frank Morris's death in 1964 was one of several Klan murders that terrorized residents of northeast Louisiana and Mississippi. In Devils Walking: Klan Murders along the Mississippi in the 1960s, Stanley Nelson details his investigation - alongside renewed FBI attention - into these cold cases.

By the close of the twentieth century the Gulf South had fostered critical advances in pilot training, producing many of the most acclaimed military personnel to take to the skies. Vincent Caire's authoritative and inspiring photographic survey recognises Gulf South aviation heroes and honours the role of key southern military air facilities.

Christopher Ferguson examines the life and ideas of English tailor and writer James Carter, one of countless and largely anonymous citizens whose lives dramatically transformed during Britain's long march to modernity.

Explores the themes and ideas that animated the activist Wendell Phillips and his colleagues. These essays shed new light on the reform movement after the Civil War, especially regarding Phillips's sustained role in Native American rights and the labour movement, subjects largely neglected by contemporary historical literature.

Between 1817 and 1898, New York City evolved from a vital Atlantic port of trade to the centre of American commerce and culture. Although this important urban transformation is well documented, the critical role of select Union soldiers turned New York engineers has, until now, remained largely unexplored.

Shares more than 150 of Cassandra Harrell's personal and family recipes, from Big Mama's Neck Bone Soup to Harrell's own low-cholesterol, low-sodium Country Black-eyed Peas and Okra. Recipes range from modern favourites like hush puppies, barbecue, and Tennessee-style coleslaw, to lesser-known dishes such as hoecakes and mayonnaise drop rolls.

Beautiful mutants, vagabond scuba divers, lovers with disordered gorilla hearts: These poetry comics place the lyric and the grotesque, the elegant and the despondent, side by side in one emotionally intense panel after another.

In his latest collection, Random Exorcisms, Adrian Louis writes poems with the rough-edged wit and heart-wrenching sincerity that make him one of the seminal voices in contemporary American poetry.

During the American Civil War the western Trans-Mississippi frontier was host to harsh environmental conditions, irregular warfare, and intense racial tensions. Matthew Stith focuses on Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Indian Territory to examine the physical and cultural frontiers that challenged Confederate and Union forces alike.

Maria Isabel Medina's chronicle of Loyola University New Orleans College of Law examines the prominent Jesuit institution across its hundred-year history, from its founding in 1914 through the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Probes the struggles of aggrieved spouses shedding light on the nature of marriage and violence in the US in the decades prior to the Civil War. Analysing over 1,500 divorce records that reveal intimate details of marriages in conflict, Robin Sager offers a rare glimpse into the private lives of ordinary Americans shaken by accusations of cruelty.

Five times each week over the past several decades, sports fans in New Orleans began their mornings by reading local sportswriter Peter Finney. Finney's columns connected New Orleans readers to the world of sports, for nearly 70 years. From a career total of 15,000 articles, this book offers a prime selection of the very best of his writing.

Examines the rise and fall of South Carolina's state-run liquor dispensary system from its emergence in the 1890s until prohibition in 1915. In this study, Michael Lewis offers a complete rendering of South Carolina's path to universal prohibition and sharpens our understanding of historical southern attitudes towards race, religion, and alcohol.

Celebrates and interprets the complementary expressions of photography and literature in the South. Focusing on the 1930s, and including significant works both before and after this preeminent decade, Joseph Millichap uncovers fascinating convergences between mediums, particularly in the interplay of documentary realism and subjective modernism.

Between 1717 and 1731, the French Company of the Indies held a virtual monopoly over Louisiana culture and trade. Focusing on the travels and travails of Marc-Antoine Caillot, a company clerk who set sail for Louisiana in 1729, Greenwald deftly examines the company's role as colonizer, developer, slaveholder, commercial entity, and deal maker.

More than fifty years after its publication, Walker Percy's National Book Award Winner, The Moviegoer, still confronts, comforts, and enlightens generations of readers. This collection of twelve essays emphasize the evolving significance of this seminal, New Orleans novel.

Challenges the premises that elevate William Faulkner and diminish Rita Mae Brown, that esteem Walker Percy yet marginalize David Sedaris, by arguing for the inclusion of gay comic authors as defining voices in the field.

From the infamous pirate Jean Laffite and the storied couple Bonnie and Clyde, to less familiar bandits like train-robber Eugene Bunch and suspected murderer Leather Britches Smith, Legendary Louisiana Outlaws explores Louisiana's most fascinating fugitives.

In the 1980s, Willis McGlascoe Carter's handwritten memoir turned up unexpectedly in the hands of an antiques dealer. Its pages told a story of a man born into slavery who, at the onset of freedom, gained an education, became a teacher, and edited a newspaper. From Slave to Statesman tells this extraordinary story.

Louisiana can be a complicated place, but the state's good food and friendly people are simple facts. Pairing these two indisputable truths, author Alex Cook takes readers to the many unsung diners, quirky low-fuss restaurants, and family-run establishments that serve up the very best of true Louisiana cuisine.

Genevieve Trimble's remarkable story of Afton Villa began with a tragedy. In 1963, fire ravaged the forty-room Victorian Gothic plantation home on the historic estate, bringing to ashes over 170 years of history. This book documents Trimble's decades-long restoration project while providing a history of the original owners.

Of the many consequences advanced by the rise of the eugenics movement in the early twentieth century, North Carolina forcibly sterilized more than 2,000 women and girls in between 1929 and 1950. Karin Zipf dissects a dark episode in North Carolina's eugenics campaign through a study of the State Home and Industrial School in Eagle Springs.

Billy Cannon's name, his image, and his remarkable athletic career serve as emblems for Louisiana State University and college football. But like many stories of lionized athletes who rise to the status of legend, there was a fall. For the first time, Charles deGravelles reveals in full the thrilling highs and unexpected lows of Cannon's life.