The first comprehensive history of Spanish colonial Louisiana. It emphasizes the Lower Mississippi valley's status as a borderland contested by empires and the region's diverse inhabitants in the era of volatility that followed the Seven Years' War.
Between 1861 and 1865, northern voters fortified Abraham Lincoln's administration as it oversaw the end of the institution of slavery... Læs mere
Charles Cowlam's career as a convict, spy, detective, congressional candidate, adventurer, and con artist... Læs mere
Questions about the meaning of womanhood and femininity loomed large in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French... Læs mere
The 1968 burning of the Lazy B Stables in Charlotte, North Carolina, attracted little notice... Læs mere
A groundbreaking study focusing on the political debates over the size and use of military forces in the United States during the... Læs mere
Military uniforms, badges, flags, and other material objects have been used to represent the identity of Americans throughout history.... Læs mere
Historians have long considered the diary of William Johnson to be among the most significant sources on... Læs mere
Presents the diary of Ella Grunewald, an upper-middle-class teenager in New Orleans at the end of the nineteenth century. Grunewald, the... Læs mere
Phrased as a reaction to the rising temperatures and swelling sea levels in the South, Ruin and Resilience conceptualizes an environmental,... Læs mere
Charts the ways that poets have responded to the cliches of public speech from the start of the Second World War to the present. This innovative study blends close readings with historical context as it traces the development of echo and critique in the work of seven poets.