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In this collection, historians and literary scholars explore an enduring dynamic between history, literature, and power in the American South. Blending analysis with storytelling, and professional insights with personal experiences, they "deconstruct Dixie", insisting that writing the South's history means harnessing the power of narrative.

Based on years of exhaustive and meticulous research, David Keehn's study provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Knights of the Golden Circle, a secret southern society that initially sought to establish a slave-holding empire in the "Golden Circle" region of Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America.

From 1897 to 1917 the red-light district of Storyville hosted a diverse cast of characters who reflected the cultural milieu and complex social structure of turn-of-the-century New Orleans. Emily Epstein Landau examines the social history of this famed district by looking at prostitution through the lens of patriarchy.

Examines the engagement of both northern and southern preachers in politics during the American Civil War, revealing an era of denominational, governmental, and public scrutiny of religious leaders.

At Milliken's Bend, Louisiana, a Union force composed predominantly of former slaves met their Confederate adversaries in one of the bloodiest small engagements of the war. In Milliken's Bend, Linda Barnickel uncovers the story of this long-forgotten and highly controversial battle.

Emphasizes the major impact people have when they work together for the common good - whether by building playgrounds, establishing neighbourhood gardens, or participating in honest, respectful conversations. To this end, the book includes an appendix with practical advice for local engagement.

Author, professor, and architect J. Michael Desmond traces LSU's development from its pre-Civil War origins in Pineville, Louisiana, through its two downtown Baton Rouge locations, to its move to the Williams "Gartness" Plantation south of the city in the 1920s.

Analyses the "new sexism" found in the agenda of the budding neoconservatism movement of the 1990s. Keira Williams argues a distinct code of gender discrimination developed that sought to reassert a traditional form of white male power.

Clementine Hunter (1887-1988) painted every day from the 1930s until several days before her death at age 101. Drawing on archival research, interviews, personal files, and a close relationship with the artist, Art Shiver and Tom Whitehead offer the first comprehensive biography of this self-taught painter who attracted the attention of the world.

More than fifty years after its initial publication, C. Vann Woodward s landmark work, The Burden of Southern History, remains an essential text on the southern past. Today, a southern burden still exists, but its shape and impact on southerners and the world varies dramatically from the one envisioned by Woodward. Recasting Woodward s ideas on the contemporary South, the contributors to The Ongoing Burden of Southern History highlight the relevance of his scholarship for the twenty-first-century reader and student.

Identifying a line of writing from Emerson's Conduct of Life to Hawthorne's posthumously published Elixir of Life manuscript to Melville's Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land, Martin Kevorkian demonstrates how these authors wrestled with their vocational calling.

From Aansel to Zwolle, with Mamou in between, researcher Clare D'Artois Leeper offers an alphabet of Louisiana place names, both past and present. Leeper includes 893 entries that reveal a distinct view of the state's history. Her unique blend of documented fact and traditional wisdom results in an entertaining guide to Louisiana's place name lore.

Derided as opportunists, uneducated "poor white trash," Union sympathizers, and race traitors, scalawags remain largely misunderstood even today. In The Louisiana Scalawags, Frank J. Wetta offers the first in-depth analysis of these men and their struggle over the future of Louisiana.

Well known in her day as a singer, playwright, novelist, and editor of the Colored American Magazine, Pauline Hopkins (1859 1930) has been the subject of considerable scholarly attention over the last twenty years. Nevertheless, her novels have not received their critical due. The Motherless Child, the first book-length study of Hopkins s major fictions, fills this critical gap, offering a sustained analysis of motherlessness in Contending Forces, Hagar s Daughter, Winona, and Of One Blood.

Conjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries, Faster Than Light explores widely disparate experiences through the lens of traditional poetic forms. This volume contains a selection of Marilyn Nelson's new and uncollected poems as well as work from each of her lyric histories of African American individuals and communities.

A champion of the underprivileged, John U. Monro embodied both the virtues of the Greatest Generation and the idealism of the civil rights era. His teaching career spanned more than four decades, and, as biographer Toni-Lee Capossela demonstrates, his influence reached well beyond his lifetime.

A father and son shovel snow; a boy accidentally sets himself on fire; two boys fish for bluegill; a young drag queen returns home to die. At the centre of it all, a teenage boy's suicide resonates through the lives of those closest to him. The poems in this collection describe a place where mundane events neighbour the most harrowing.

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. Chester Hearn explores this troubled relationship, revealing its complexity.

The world's last authentic overnight wooden steamboat, the Delta Queen cruised America's inland waters from 1927 to 2008. The Delta Queen Cookbook brings the Delta Queen's story to life with an engaging historical narrative and over 125 recipes prepared by the steamboat's former chefs during their tenures in the cookhouse.

Captures the natural and cultural vitality of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, as seen in the stunning photographs of Richard Sexton, with text by Randy Harelson and Brian Costello. This arresting portrait of Old Louisiana honors Pointe Coupee generations, past and present.

Though historians have largely overlooked Robert Horton, his public relations campaigns remain fixed in popular memory of the home front during World War II. Promoting the War Effort traces the career of Horton - the first book-length study to do so - and delves into the controversies surrounding federal public relations.

Tracing the transformation of culinary trades in France during the Revolutionary era, Jennifer Davis argues that the work of cultivating sensibility in food was not simply an elite matter; it was essential to the livelihood of thousands of men and women.

As the epicenters of style and innovation, the cities of Paris and Versailles dominate studies of consumerism in seventeenth-century France, but little scholarship exists on the material culture, fashion, and consumption patterns in the provinces. Donna Bohanan's Fashion beyond Versailles fills this historiographical gap.

In this absorbing and previously unpublished personal account, Ed Kennedy recounts his career as a newspaperman from his early days as a stringer in Paris to the aftermath of his dismissal from the AP. In his narrative, Kennedy emerges both as a reporter with an eye for a good story and an unwavering foe of censorship.

Renowned New South booster Henry Grady proposed industrialization as a basis of economic recovery for the former Confederacy. Born in 1850 in Athens, Georgia, to a family involved in the city s thriving manufacturing industries, Grady saw firsthand the potential of industrialization for the region. In Transition to an Industrial South, Michael J. Gagnon explores the creation of an industrial network in the antebellum South by focusing on the creation and expansion of cotton textile manufacture in Athens.

Overturns long-standing beliefs about slave labour in the antebellum South. In the first in-depth examination of slave hiring in Virginia, Zaborney suggests that this endemic practice bolstered the institution of slavery in the decades leading up to the Civil War, all but assuring Virginia's secession from the Union to protect slavery.

Three days of savage and bloody fighting between Confederate and Union troops at Stones River in Middle Tennessee ended with nearly 25,000 casualties but no clear victor. Using previously neglected sources, Larry Daniel rescues this important campaign from obscurity.

Although he was one of the most important African American political leaders during the last decade of the nineteenth century, George Henry White has been one of the least remembered. In this exhaustively researched biography, Benjamin Justesen rescues from obscurity the fascinating story of this compelling figure's life and accomplishments.

Examines how converging political and cultural movements helped to create dualistic images of southern poor white female characters in Depression-era literature. Lancaster focuses on how the evolving eugenics movement reinforced the dichotomy of altruistic maternal figures and destructive sexual deviants.

From backwoods bars and small-town dives to swampside dance halls and converted clapboard barns, Louisiana Saturday Night offers an anecdotal history and experiential guidebook to some of the Gumbo State's most unique blues, Cajun, and zydeco clubs.