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A long-overdue collection of the great fiction writers who have been associated with Louisiana State University. Beginning with three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Penn Warren, this anthology records the journey of LSU's prestigious literary tradition.
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Gathers together, evaluates, and sets down the stories, legends, facts, and circumstances of the founding of Baton Rouge; its troubled history under the colonial governments of France, England, and Spain; and its eventual entry into the Union in 1812.
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Some historians extol Major General Benjamin Butler as a great humanitarian, whereas others vilify him as a brazen opportunist. In this... Læs mere
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My Passage at the New Orleans Tribune, first published in Belgium in 1872, is Belgian scientist Jean-Charles Houzeau’s memoir of the four years he spent as both observer and participant in the drama of American Reconstruction.
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Examines emancipation and the difficult transition from slavery to free labour in one enclave of the... Læs mere
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Originally published in French in 1911 and translated into English in 1973, Our People and Our History records the lives of fifty prominent Creoles who lived in New Orleans at the end of the nineteenth century.
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More than 140 years after Judah Benjamin first appeared on the Confederate scene, historians still debate his place in the history of the Lost Cause. Robert... Læs mere
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Sometimes called the “wharf rats from New Orleans” and the “lowest scrapings of the Mississippi,” Lee's Tigers were the approximately... Læs mere
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Pierre Cleiament de Laussat was the last representative of a foreign power to exercise authority in Louisiana. Appointed colonial prefect, these memoirs, covering the period from... Læs mere
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Louisiana state law was unique in allowing slaves to contract for their freedom and to initiate a lawsuit for liberty.... Læs mere
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In the summer of 1866, racial tensions ran high in Louisiana as a constitutional convention considered disenfranchising former Confederates... Læs mere
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