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Winner of the George C. Rogers Jr. Book Award A Brief Moment in the Sun is the first scholarly biography of Francis Lewis Cardozo, one of the most talented and influential African Americans to hold...

The release of the song ?Hound Dog? in 1953 marked a turning point in American popular culture, and throughout its history, the hit ballad bridged divides of race, gender, and generational conflict...

Throughout the decades-long legal battle to end segregation, discrimination, and disfranchisement, attorney Alexander Pierre Tureaud was one of the most influential figures in Louisiana's courts. A...

In 1685, the revocation of the Edict of Nantes made Catholicism the only recognized religion in France and criminalized the practice of Calvinism, throwing the minority Protestant population into...

Charles Cowlam? career as a convict, spy, detective, congressional candidate, adventurer, and con artist spanned the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Gilded Age. His life touched many of the most...

Frank J. Wetta and Martin A. Novelli?s Abraham Lincoln and Women in Film investigates how depictions of women in Hollywood motion pictures helped forge the myth of Lincoln. Exploring female...

Alabama focuses on a boy from a rural, fundamentalist community who becomes a pacifist, feminist, and existentialist poet. Labyrinth, meditation, fable, and peasant poem, formed from interleaved...

America?s Imagined Revolution explores the Reconstruction period after the Civil War to ask narratological, historiographical, and theoretical questions about how slave emancipation has (and has not)...

Extraordinarily wealthy and influential, Stephen Duncan (1787?1867) was a landowner, slaveholder, and financier with a remarkable array of social, economic, and political contacts in pre-Civil War...

Author: Craig E. ColtenPublisher: Lsu PressPublication Date: Sep 01, 2006Number of Pages: 264 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0807132004ISBN-13: 9780807132005

Elegiac and fierce, solemn and celebratory, the poems in Chanda Feldman? Approaching the Fields consider family and history. From black sharecroppers and subsistence farmers along the Mississippi...

Floyd Skloot's eighth poetry collection, Approaching Winter, evokes the fluid and dynamic nature of memory as it ebbs and floods through our daily lives. Here the real and the imagined intermingle...

In Atomic Testing in Mississippi, David Allen Burke illuminates the nearly forgotten history of America's only nuclear detonations east of the Mississippi River. The atomic tests, conducted in the...

Author: Elizabeth A. I. PowellPublisher: LSU PressPublication Date: Sep 09, 2020Number of Pages: 108 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0807173908ISBN-13: 9780807173909

Author: William C. DavisPublisher: Lsu PressPublication Date: Apr 01, 1981Number of Pages: 298 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0807108677ISBN-13: 9780807108673

What should we do with the things we inherit? In ten intimate essays as vivid as fiction and as varied as music, Melora Wolff?s Bequeath presents a flawed, funny, impressionable narrator who tries to...

In dark, lyrical verse, Black Flowers follows a speaker from childhood into adulthood, as he navigates the animistic world of crows, conjurings, and winter snows. Doug Ramspeck guides readers through...

Blood Weather, Alice Friman?s sharply etched new collection of poetry, reminds readers that times of reckoning are marked by blood: the knife, the sword, the cutting word. Blood runs through our...

Over the past thirty years, forensic anthropologist Mary H. Manhein has helped authorities to identify hundreds of deceased persons throughout Louisiana and beyond. In Bone Remains, she offers...

Purporting to be a "lost" seventeenth book of the 16-volume Anthologia Graeca, Book Seventeen uses the themes and images of ancient mythology to conjure a new way of looking at our modern world. Gods...

New Orleans is a city of many storied streets, but only one conjures up as much unbridled passion as it does fervent hatred, simultaneously polarizing the public while drawing millions of visitors a...

In her beguiling new collection, Bright Stranger, Katherine Soniat invites the reader to celebrate the unfinished and unsure. The poems in this volume do not demand or offer certainty, existing...

Could the shlock-rock ?70s band Kiss in any way affect the outcome of a death-dealing twenty-first-century virus? Is Bob Ross?that permed, inimitable painter of Edenic nostalgia on PBS?actually an...

Dan Albergotti?s Candy is a book steeped in sound and silence. Sound in the form of song, of chaotic cacophony, and of the drone (sometimes natural, sometimes manufactured) that creates the ambient...

Derrick Harriell?s new book, Come Kingdom, chronicles a Black man?s journey toward an ever-elusive American Dream with poems anchored in the trenches of personal crossroads ranging from child...

In Cove, the compulsive intensity with which James Brasfield seeks to capture a fleeting moment?s imagery, ?to choose a song sown / for the moment,? imbues his poems with a sense of urgency and...

Dangerous Innocence investigates how prevailing constructions of white masculinity in the U.S. South help feed and reinforce systems of racial inequity. Tracing the rise of the ?southern outsider? in...

Daniel Boone?s Window, a new book of poetry by Matthew Wimberley, meditates on the past and future of contemporary Appalachia through explorations of both mythologized and actual landscapes. In poems...

dark // thing is a multifaceted work that explores the darkness/otherness by which the world sees Black people. Ashley M. Jones stares directly into the face of the racism that allows people to be...