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The first biography of William Pitt Fessenden in over forty years, Civil War Senator reveals a significant but often sidelined historical figure and explains the central role played by party politics and partisanship in the coming of the Civil War, northern military victory, and the ultimate failure of postwar Reconstruction.

Outdoors writer Jerald Horst spent one year riding on patrol with game wardens in the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. In riveting episodes, he chronicles their adventures, providing an up-close view of this demanding job and the band of men who take it on.

In Judging Maria de Macedo, Bryan Givens offers a microhistorical examination of Maria de Macedo's trial before the Inquisition in Lisbon in 1665-1666, providing an intriguing glimpse into Portuguese culture at the time.

Provides a groundbreaking and up-to-date overview of archaeology in the Bayou State, including a thorough analysis of the cultures, communities, and people of Louisiana from the Native Americans of 13,000 years ago to the modern historical archaeology of New Orleans.

During the Civil War, traditional history tells us, Afro-Christianity proved a strong force for slaves' perseverance and hope of deliverance. In this volume, however, Daniel Fountain raises the possibility that Afro-Christianity played a less significant role within the antebellum slave community than most scholars currently assert.

Through Dr Edgar Wiggin Francisco's vivid childhood recollections, Ledgers of History offers a compelling portrait of the future Nobel Laureate near the midpoint of his legendary career, and also charts a significant discovery that will inevitably lead to revisions in historical and critical scholarship on Faulkner and his writings.

The annual clash in New Orleans between the Grambling State University Tigers and the Southern University Jaguars represents the fiercest and most anticipated in-state football rivalry in Louisiana. Thomas Aiello chronicles the history of the game and explores the schools' broader significance to Louisiana, to sports, and to the black community.

Explores the spiritual autobiographies of five nineteenth-century female African American itinerant preachers to discover the ways in which they drew upon religion and the material conditions of their lives to fashion powerful personas that enabled them to pursue their missions as divinely appointed religious leaders.

With stunning clarity, these poems move from acute observation to an empathy, participation, and intimacy that continues Gibson's search to experience the "one body" of the world in direct encounter and to translate that encounter into words.

Reveals the difficulties that President Abraham Lincoln, military officials, and state authorities faced in trying to curb traitorous activity while upholding the spirit of the United States Constitution. Dennis Boman explains that despite Lincoln's desire to disentangle himself from Missouri policy matters, he was never able to do so.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who later achieved fame as the writer Mark Twain, served as second lieutenant in a Confederate militia, but only for two weeks, leading many to describe his loyalty to the Confederate cause as halfhearted at best. In The Reconstruction of Mark Twain, Joe B. Fulton challenges these long-held assumptions about Twain's advocacy of the Union cause, arguing that Clemens traveled a long and arduous path, moving from pro-slavery, secession, and the Confederacy to pro-union, and racially enlightened. A deft blend of biography, history, and literary studies, this book offers a bold new assessment of the work of one of America's most celebrated writers.

Traces how the production and marketing of the BuzanAais riot story served political commentators, publishers, authors, illustrators, and local enthusiasts, enabling them to draw upon key points from the 1847 uprising to negotiate issues relevant to their own times.

Historians have long believed that the "frontier" shaped Texas plantation society, but in this detailed examination of Texas's most important plantation region, Sean Kelley asserts that the dominant influence was not the frontier but the Mexican Republic.

Examines important avant-garde writings by three American women authors and shows that during World Wars I and II a new kind of war literature emerged - one in which feminist investigation of war and trauma effectively counters the paradigmatic war experience long narrated by men.

Provides a lively history of French provincial citizens after the Franco-Prussian War as they came to terms with defeat and began to prepare themselves for a seemingly inevitable future conflict.

"From these pages flows a warm and breathy voice that sings up the Tuscan countryside but also traffics in the quiddities of hardscrabble Americana: beers drunk, cars wrecked, guns fired, songs sung, lovers kissed and missed. It's as though there's nothing this voice can't say; it's personal, provocative." - David Kirby.

Once, history and "the South" dwelt in close proximity. Representations of the South in writing and on film assumed "everybody knew" what had happened in place and time to create the South. Today, our vision of the South varies, and there is less "there there" than ever before. In The South That Wasn't There, Michael Kreyling explores a series of literary situations in which memory and history seem to work in odd and problematic ways. Lively and frequently confrontational, The South That Wasn't There offers a thought provoking reexamination of our literary conceptions about the South.

One of the most critically acclaimed and prolific yet least-recognized contemporary writers, African American author John Edgar Wideman creates work that has a reputation for being difficult, even unfathomable. In Writing Blackness, James Coleman examines Wideman's work with the goal of making sense of his often elusive imagery and dense style and broadening his readership.

Political scientist Glenn Antizzo identifies fifteen factors critical to the success of contemporary US military intervention and evaluates the likely efficacy of direct US military involvement today - when it will work, when it will not, and how to undertake such action in a manner that will bring rapid victory at an acceptable political cost.

In this intriguing study, Robert Nowatzki reveals the unexpected relationships between blackface entertainment and antislavery sentiment in the United States and Britain. He contends that the ideological ambiguity of both phenomena enabled the similarities between early minstrelsy and abolitionism in their depictions of African Americans.

Collects nineteenth-century stories, sketches, and book excerpts by a gallery of authors to create a comprehensive collection of writings about the riverboat gambler. Thomas Ruys Smith puts the twenty-eight selections in perspective with an introduction that explores the history and myth surrounding this fascinating American cultural icon.

While numerous accounts exist of President Abraham Lincoln's often-troubled dealings with either his cabinet or his generals, Chester G. Hearn's illuminating history provides the first broad synthesis of Lincoln's complex relationship with both groups.

The Diary of a Public Man, published anonymously in 1879, claimed to offer accounts of secret conversations with Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward, and Stephen A. Douglas in the weeks before the start of the Civil War. Historians have never been able to pinpoint its author or determine its authenticity until now.

Presents the first book-length study of the sexually violent African American man, or "black beast", as a composite literary phenomenon. According to Andrew Leiter, the black beast theme served as a link between the Harlem and Southern Renaissances, with writers from both movements exploring its psychological, cultural, and social ramifications.

Traces the shocking history of police corruption in the Crescent City from World War II to Hurricane Katrina and the concurrent rise of a large and energized black opposition to it. Leonard Moore explores a staggering array of NOPD abuses and the increasingly vociferous calls for reform by the city's black community.

In this ground-breaking medical history, Andrew McIlwaine Bell explores the impact of malaria nad yellow fever on the major political and military events of the 1860s, revealing how deadly microorganisms carried by a tiny insect helped shape the course of the Civil War.

Examines the West Indian immigrant community in Honduras through the development of the country's fruit industry, revealing that West Indians fought to maintain their identities as workers, Protestants, blacks, and English speakers in the midst of popular Latin American nationalistic notions of mestizaje, or mixed-race identity.

In 1737, Englishman William Stephens sailed to Georgia to serve as colonial secretary to its British Board of Trustees. His reports on the condition of Georgia impressed the board, and they appointed him president of the colony. Julie Anne Sweet uses the story of Stephens's life to illuminate vital details in the history of early Georgia.

Hailed as one of the great defenders of democratic liberalism in postwar Europe, French philosopher, sociologist, and political commentator Raymond Aron left behind a staggering amount of published work on a wide range of topics both scholarly and popular. In this volume, Reed Davis assesses the originality and consistency of Aron's body of work.