Bøger udgivet af Louisiana State University Press

At once a meditation on this poetic city, its many languages and cultures, and a history of its forgotten poetry. Using Sappho's fragments as a guide, Ruth Salvaggio roams the streets of the city as she explores the migrations of lyric poetry from ancient Greece through the African slave trade to indigenous America and ultimately to New Orleans.

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 spent fifteen years transcribing and annotating the original manuscript, making it accessible to twenty-first-century gardening enthusiasts. The resulting dialogue between Turnbull's diary entries and Turner's illuminating notes demonstrates the pivotal role that kitchen and pleasure gardens held in the lives of planter families. In addition, the diary documents the relationship between the mistress and the enslaved whose labor made her vast gardens possible. Turner's exquisite interpretation reveals not only an energetic gardener but also a well-read one, eager to experiment with the newest gardening trends. Illustrated with engravings from period books, journals, and nursery catalogs, Turner's annotations provide the reader with a deeper understanding of American horticultural history.The diary, spanning the years 1836 through 1894, reveals the portrait of a courageous and resilient woman. After the tragic loss of her two sons and husband prior to the Civil War, Martha assumed full responsibility for her family and the plantation. She endured living under siege during the war and persevered during Reconstruction by growing and selling food as a truck farmer. By working daily in her ornamental garden and faithfully maintaining her diary for nearly sixty years, she found the solace and peace to look forward to the future.

At the height of World War I one of the Progressive era's most successful muckracking journalists, Ray Stannard Baker set out on a special mission to Europe on behalf of the Wilson administration. While posing as a foreign correspondent, Baker assessed public opinion in Europe about the war and postwar settlement.

Presents an innovative and provocative study of the most notorious campaigns of the Civil War - Sherman's devastating 1864 "March to the Sea" and the 1865 Carolinas Campaign. The book follows the 154th New York regiment through three states and chronicles 150 years, from the start of the campaigns to their impact today.

The name Suzanne Perron is synonymous with exquisite detail. Her expertly tailored gowns draw from the legacy of couture design. Designing in Ivory and White captures the rise of this talented designer, from her first Singer sewing machine to her success on Seventh Avenue to her post-Katrina move to a city in need of "something beautiful".

Explores a tragic part of America's history though the lenses of race, gender, leadership, politics, and memory. The essays in this strong collection shed new light on the defining issues of the Civil War era.

During the Secession Winter session of Congress, twenty-two-year-old Henry Adams wrote four accounts of these crucial months in Washington, including twenty-one unsigned letters for the Boston Daily Advertiser. This volume presents the Advertiser letters for the first time since their original publication between 1860 and 1861.

Chronicles the evolution of Granbury's Texas Brigade, perhaps the most distinguished combat unit in the Confederate Army of Tennessee. Named for its commanding officer, Brigadier General Hiram B. Granbury, the brigade fought tenaciously in the western theatre even after Confederate defeat seemed certain.

The Great African Slave Revolt of 1825 offers a detailed examination of the sociopolitical and economic background of the Matanzas rebellion, both locally and colonially. Based on extensive primary sources, particularly court records, the study provides a microhistorical analysis of the days that preceded this event, the uprising itself, and the days and months that followed. Barcia gives the Great African Revolt of 1825 its rightful place in the history of slavery in Cuba, the Caribbean, and the Americas.

In 1886, Josephine Louise Newcomb donated funds to Tulane University for the founding of the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College. Her contribution created the nation's first degree-granting coordinate college for women. This volume explores the rich history and tradition of the college through a multidisciplinary collection of essays.

Offers a remarkably compelling and significant study of the Civil War South's highly contested and bloodiest border states: Kentucky and Missouri. By far the most complex examination to date, the book sharply focuses on the "borderland" between the free North and the Confederate South.

Between the 1930s and 1960s, the spread of new transportation networks and the democratization of paid vacations struck many observers as a sign that tourism was growing into a folkway of modern American life. Easy mobility and free time lay at the heart of this idealized vision, and vacations were seen as a ritualized expression of the movement and egalitarianism that characterized midcentury modernity. The Holiday Makers tells the story of how advertisers sold tourist travel in popular magazines during this era, transforming consumer culture in the process.

In this thought-provoking and highly readable book, Robert Mann provides a concise, engaging study of the "Daisy Girl" ad, widely acknowledged as the most important and memorable political ad in American history.

Dave Smith's sixteenth poetry collection chronicles the arc of almost sixty years living in the American South. From dusty sawmills to the ubiquitous Waffle House, Hawks on Wires stages both mortal and comic dramas that speak to the poet's autumnal acceptance of himself and the South.

In the spring of 1861, Union military authorities arrested Maryland farmer John Merryman on charges of treason for burning railroad bridges around Baltimore to prevent northern soldiers from reaching the capital. Jonathan White reveals how the prosecution of this Baltimore farmer had a lasting impact on the Lincoln administration and Congress.

One of the finest architectural photographers in America, Robert W. Tebbs produced the first photographic survey of Louisiana's plantations in 1926. From those images, now housed in the Louisiana State Museum, and not widely available until now, 119 plates showcasing fifty-two homes are featured in this volume.

Sometimes wildly funny, yet often serious, jarringly uncanny yet realistic, the stories in Lori Baker's Crash & Tell seem to come from a different time and place. In her darkly whimsical world, Baker plays with a variety of narrative voices and styles, skilfully treading the line between traditional storytelling and the literary avant-garde.

A pilot and freelance writer with more than twenty years of experience in the aviation industry, Vincent P. Caire chronicles Louisiana's history of flight in 196 vintage and contemporary photographs, many never-before published.

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Douglas Southall Freeman, perhaps more than any other writer in the first half of the twentieth century, helped shape and sustain a collective identity for white southerners. Keith Dickson's Sustaining Southern Identity offers a masterful intellectual biography of Freeman.

Since the creation of the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus, the number of black lawmakers in Louisiana has increased; however, socioeconomic indicators show that the condition of their constituents has failed to improve. Jas Sullivan and Jonathan Winburn raise critical questions as to the effectiveness of this body of minority legislators.

Wildlife agents prepare themselves for anything. In the blink of an eye, a routine arrest for hunting rabbits at night can turn into a manhunt, with an officer's life suddenly at risk. In Louisiana Wildlife Agents, officers tell of the unimaginable dangers lurking in their supposedly mundane tasks as they police Louisiana's bayous and backroads.

Considers the cultural, political, and religious contexts shaping the long struggle against racial injustice in one of early America's most important cities. Comprised of nine scholarly essays, the volume recounts the antislavery movement in Philadelphia from its marginalised status during the colonial era to its rise during the Civil War.

Examines morale in the Civil War's western theatre, the region that witnessed the most consistent Union success and Confederate failure, and the battleground where many historians contend that the war was won and lost. The western focus provides a glimpse into the hearts and minds of Confederates who routinely witnessed the defeat.

Tackles the complex issue of nationalism in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Spanish Atlantic empire. Scott Eastman challenges the idea that nationalism arose from the ashes of confessional society. Rather, Roman Catholicism and the ideals of Enlightenment worked together to lay the basis for a "mixed modernity" within Spanish territories.

In 1932 a young Fonville Winans 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 ventured onto untamed Louisiana waters aboard a leaking, rudderless sailboat, the Pintail.

Part crime novel, part textbook, Dangerous Hoops combines the principles of marketing and forensic accounting into a lively narrative to educate and entertain. Set in the world of professional sports, the book introduces FBI agent Bill Douglass as he pursues a deadly extortionist in order to save lives - and spare the NBA from a PR nightmare.

Throughout his long and influential career, Michael Fellman has explored the tragic side of American history. Incorporating essays written over the past thirty years, Views from the Dark Side of American History reveals some of the major personal and scholarly concerns of his career and illuminates his approach to history.