LSU Press
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You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis and the Biography of a Song
$29.95 Add to cartIn You Are My Sunshine, Robert Mann weaves together the birth of country music, Louisiana political history, World War II, and the American civil rights movement to produce a compelling biography of o
- Author: Mann, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0807183504
- Language: English
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Civil War Cavalry: Waging Mounted Warfare in Nineteenth-Century America
$49.95 Add to cartThe Civil War produced the largest cavalry force ever raised in American history. In Civil War Cavalry, Earl J. Hess examines that force comprehensively and from new perspectives, challenging standar… [more below]
- Author: Hess, Earl J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0807184446
- Language: English
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The Appalachian Sea: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartSteve Scafidi’s The Appalachian Sea explores the eponymous place of mountains and story, of rivers and magic, as well as of mortality, where people work and live and die. What began as an homage to th… [more below]
- Series: Southern Messenger Poets
- Author: Scafidi, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: July 03 2025
- ISBN10: 0807184713
- Language: English
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Mother Water Ash: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartMother Water Ash, a wrenching new collection of poems by Nicole Cooley, explores the personal grief of a mother’s sudden death alongside the environmental crises of the storms, fires, and floods that… [more below]
- Author: Cooley, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: July 25 2024
- ISBN10: 080718246X
- Language: English
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The Winter Dance Party: Poems, 1983-2023
$34.95 Add to cartThe Winter Dance Party lays out, not someone’s entire life, but that person’s life as a poet. This enthralling, career-spanning book by the National Book Award finalist David Kirby is made up mainly o… [more below]
- Author: Kirby, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: July 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0807182443
- Language: English
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Reckoning with the Devil: Nathan Bedford Forrest in Myth and Memory
$44.95 Add to cartCourt Carney’s Reckoning with the Devil grapples with the troubled, complex legacy of Nathan Bedford Forrest–a slave trader, Confederate general, and prominent Klansman. More than a century after his
- Author: Carney, Court
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0807171530
- Language: English
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Melted Away: A Memoir of Climate Change and Caregiving in Peru
$29.95 Add to cartA prolific poet as a child, Barbara Drake-Vera loved writing almost as much as she adored her father, a moody postal employee with an elaborate comb-over and a fondness for Mahler. But when her succes
- Author: Drake-Vera, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: March 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0807181528
- Language: English
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A Hound Dog Tale: Big Mama, Elvis, and the Song That Changed Everything
$34.95 Add to cartThe 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. B
- Author: Wynne, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: February 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0807181145
- Language: English
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The French 75
$24.95 Add to cartIn The French 75, John Maxwell Hamilton tracks down the many lives of this protean cocktail. The drink, named by French propagandists during World War I, was said to pack a punch as powerful as that n… [more below]
- Series: Iconic New Orleans Cocktails
- Author: Hamilton, John Maxwell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: April 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0807181765
- Language: English
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Crossroads, Cutoffs, and Confluences: Origins of Louisiana Cities, Towns, and Villages
$34.95 Add to cartRichard Campanella’s Crossroads, Cutoffs, and Confluences tells the epic story of human settlement in Louisiana, unearthing the original geographical rationales for the formation of hundreds of cities
- Author: Campanella, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0807185108
- Language: English
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Frank Zappa’s America
$39.95 Add to cartFrom his early albums with the Mothers of Invention, Frank Zappa established a reputation as a musical genius who pushed the limits of culture throughout the 1960s and 1970s, experimenting with a blen
- Author: Morgan, Bradley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 02 2025
- ISBN10: 080718392X
- Language: English
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Celebrating with St. Joseph Altars: The History, Recipes, and Symbols of a New Orleans Tradition
$34.95 Add to cartEvery year on March 19, Roman Catholic churches and households in and around New Orleans celebrate St. Joseph’s Day. As centerpieces of these celebrations, the elaborate tiered displays of foods, pray
- Series: Southern Table
- Author: Juneau, Sandra Scalise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 10 2021
- ISBN10: 807174769
- Language: English
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The Pool Is Closed: Segregation, Summertime, and the Search for a Place to Swim
$34.95 Add to cartIn 2018, while teaching her kids to swim and working on urban river restoration projects, Hannah S. Palmer began a journal of social encounters with water. As she found herself dangling her feet in a
- Author: Palmer, Hannah S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0807181897
- Language: English
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The Beechers: America’s Most Influential Family
$39.95 Add to cartThe Reverend Lyman Beecher was once called “the father of more brains than any other man in America.” Among his eleven living children were a celebrity novelist, a college president, the most well-kno
- Author: Todd, Obbie Tyler
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0807182753
- Language: English
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An Arm Fixed to a Wing: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartOlivia Clare Friedman’s An Arm Fixed to a Wing seeks out the spiritual elements that haunt the everyday, the divine wing fastened to an earthly arm. Elegies and poems of nostalgia appear alongside pie
- Author: Friedman, Olivia Clare
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: February 10 2025
- ISBN10: 0807183733
- Language: English
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Invisible Blackness: A Louisiana Family in the Age of Racial Passing
$29.95 Add to cartInvisible Blackness explores the complex lives of Creoles of mixed race born in Louisiana to enslaved women and the white men who enslaved them. Individuals such as Alice Thomasson Grice forged their
- Author: Shannon, Katy Morlas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0807183822
- Language: English
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Seamus Heaney’s Gifts
$39.95 Add to cart“The fact of the matter,” Seamus Heaney said in a 1997 interview with the Paris Review, “is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry.” Throughout his c
- Author: Hart, Henry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: December 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0807182567
- Language: English
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Novice: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartHow close can a person come to home when their family has deserted it? Guided by this question, the poems in Nida Sophasarun’s Novice traverse natural, animal, and dream worlds, seeking intimacy in a … [more below]
- Series: Sewanee Poetry
- Author: Sophasarun, Nida
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: April 03 2025
- ISBN10: 0807183903
- Language: English
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Candy: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartDan 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 so… [more below]
- Series: Sewanee Poetry
- Author: Albergotti, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: July 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0807182540
- Language: English
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American Populist: Huey Long of Louisiana
$49.95 Add to cartThomas E. Patterson’s monumental biography of Huey Long is a profound reevaluation of his life and legacy, recognizing him as an inspirational progressive thinker, populist hero, and radical influence
- Author: Patterson, Thomas E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: February 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0807182990
- Language: English
