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The Limits of the Lost Cause
LSU Press 出版The Limits of the Lost Cause challenges prevailing ways of thinking about the impact of the Civil W
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A Hound Dog Tale
LSU Press 出版The release of the song "Hound Dog" in 1953 marked a turning point in American popular culture, and
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James Salter
LSU Press 出版Biographer and critic Jeffrey Meyers knew the novelist James Salter (1925-2015) during the last dec
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A More Noble Cause
LSU Press 出版Throughout the decades-long legal battle to end segregation, discrimination, and disfranchisement,
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Newly Not Eternal
LSU Press 出版Equal parts elegy and ode, Newly Not Eternal explores the startling suffering and sentiment implici
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The Elephant of Silence
LSU Press 出版"A poem is an act of faith because the poet believes in it," contends John Wall Barger in The Eleph
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Going to Hell to Get the Devil
LSU Press 出版The 1968 burning of the Lazy B Stables in Charlotte, North Carolina, attracted little notice beyond
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The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism
LSU Press 出版While historians have acknowledged that the issues of race, slavery, and emancipation were not uniq
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The Iron Dice of Battle
LSU Press 出版Killed in action at the bloody Battle of Shiloh, Confederate general Albert Sidney Johnston stands
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The Next Elvis
LSU Press 出版An American institution, Sun Records has a history with many chapters -- its Memphis origins with v
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The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy
LSU Press 出版Now back in print, Vereen M. Bell's The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy was the first critical book
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Conflict of Command
LSU Press 出版Winner of the Barondess/Lincoln AwardWinner of the Austin Civil War Round Table Book PrizeFinalist
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Kingfish U
LSU Press 出版No political leader is more closely identified with Louisiana State University than the flamboyant
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A Girl’s Life in New Orleans
LSU Press 出版A Girl's Life in New Orleans presents the diary of Ella Grunewald, an upper-middle-class teenager i
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That Beauty in the Trees
LSU Press 出版Moving effortlessly from Virginia to Italy and beyond, Ron Smith's new volume responds with a range
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The Absinthe Frapp矇
LSU Press 出版The Absinthe Frapp矇 examines the history of absinthe, its origins, and its influences, culminating
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Looking Up
LSU Press 出版Looking Up collects more than a decade of new poems by Dave Smith. These include reflections upon e
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Interrogating Travel
LSU Press 出版Never in human history has travel been so accessible to so many. But--amid an escalating climate cr
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Draining New Orleans
LSU Press 出版In Draining New Orleans, the first full-length book devoted to "the world's toughest drainage prob
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The Wild Woman of Cincinnati
LSU Press 出版Popular entertainment in antebellum Cincinnati ran the gamut from high culture to shows barely abov
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Knights of the Golden Circle
LSU Press 出版Based on years of exhaustive and meticulous research, David C. Keehn's study provides the first com
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River of Dreams
LSU Press 出版Even in the decades before Mark Twain enthralled the world with his evocative representations of th
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Adventures of a Louisiana Birder
LSU Press 出版This candid and humorous chronicle shows how one woman goes from casual observer to obsessive bird
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Normans and Saxons
LSU Press 出版When Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina savagely caned Senator Charles Sumner Massachu
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Mad with Freedom
LSU Press 出版The use of race in studies of insanity in the 1840s and 1850s gave rise to politically charged theo
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Letters from the Southern Home Front
LSU Press 出版Joseph A. Fry's Letters from the Southern Home Front explores the diversity of public opinion on th
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Soldiers from Experience
LSU Press 出版Winner of the Albert Castel Book AwardWinner of the Colonel Richard W. Ulbrich Memorial Book AwardW
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Drumsville!
LSU Press 出版Drumsville! The Evolution of the New Orleans Beat traces the history of drums and drumming in the C
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Brown Pelican
LSU Press 出版In this compelling book, Rien Fertel tells the story of humanity's complicated and often brutal rel
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Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas
LSU Press 出版Winner of the Phi Alpha Theta Best First Book AwardWinner of the Southern Indiana Civil War Roundta
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Bayou d’Arbonne Swamp
LSU Press 出版Winner of the John Burroughs MedalBayou D'Arbonne Swamp addresses the vibrant natural, cultural, an
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How the Court Became Supreme
LSU Press 出版Over the course of its history, the United States Supreme Court has emerged as the most powerful ju
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The Roots of Violent Crime in America
LSU Press 出版The Roots of Violent Crime in America is criminologist Barry Latzer's comprehensive analysis of cri
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Hood’s Texas Brigade
LSU Press 出版One of the most effective units to fight on either side of the Civil War, the Texas Brigade of the
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Come Kingdom
LSU Press 出版Derrick Harriell's new book, Come Kingdom, chronicles a Black man's journey toward an ever-elusive
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Doll Apollo
LSU Press 出版Winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Award With lush imagery and surprisi
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Herbert Corey’s Great War
LSU Press 出版In 1914, the Associated Newspapers sent correspondent Herbert Corey to Europe on the day Great Brit
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Herbert Corey’s Great War
LSU Press 出版In 1914, the Associated Newspapers sent correspondent Herbert Corey to Europe on the day Great Brit
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The New View from Cane River
LSU Press 出版The New View from Cane River features ten in-depth essays that provide fresh, diverse perspectives
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The Tacky South
LSU Press 出版As a way to comment on a person's style or taste, the word "tacky" has distinctly southern origins,
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Lincoln’s Unfinished Work
LSU Press 出版In his Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln promised that the nation's sacrifices during the Civil W
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The Last Fire-Eater
LSU Press 出版In The Last Fire-Eater, renowned historian of the American South William A. Link examines the life
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Civil War Field Artillery
LSU Press 出版The American Civil War saw the creation of the largest, most potent artillery force ever deployed i
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Imaginary Empires
LSU Press 出版In Imaginary Empires, Maria O'Malley examines early American texts published between 1767 and 1867
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Cather and Opera
LSU Press 出版Throughout her fiction, Willa Cather mentioned forty-seven operas. References to opera appear in al