LSU Press
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Waterlines: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartIn Waterlines, Louisiana native Alison Pelegrin gives us poems that describe the terrible power of nature even as they underscore the state’s beauty. The poet moves from the familiar gaudy delights of
- Author: Pelegrin, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: August 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0807164496
- Language: English
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The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union
$39.95 Add to cartIn this companion to The Life of Johnny Reb, Bell Irvin Wiley explores the daily lives of the men in blue who fought to save the Union. With the help of many soldiers’ letters and diaries, Wiley expla
- Series: Political Traditions in Foreign Policy
- Author: Wiley, Bell Irvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0807133752
- Language: English
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She Let Herself Go: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartFrom George Ella Lyon comes a dynamic and humorous collection examining the transformations of one woman’s life as she tries on, takes on, and peels off identities learned from family stories, gender,
- Author: Lyon, George Ella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 13 2012
- ISBN10: 080714276X
- Language: English
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Mardi Gras Beads
$22.95 Add to cartBeads are one of the great New Orleans symbols, as much a signifier of the city as a pot of scarlet crawfish or a jazzman’s trumpet. They are Louisiana’s version of the Hawaiian lei, strung around tou
- Series: Louisiana True
- Author: Maccash, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: February 09 2022
- ISBN10: 0807177091
- Language: English
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The Cemeteries of New Orleans: A Cultural History
$34.95 Add to cartIn The Cemeteries of New Orleans, Peter B. Dedek reveals the origins and evolution of the Crescent City’s world-famous necropolises, exploring both their distinctive architecture and their cultural i
- Author: Dedek, Peter B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: July 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180386
- Language: English
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Forgotten People: Cane River’s Creoles of Color (Revised)
$29.95 Add to cartOut of colonial Natchitoches, in northwestern Louisiana, emerged a sophisticated and affluent community founded by a family of freed slaves. Their plantations eventually encompassed 18,000 fertile acr
- Series: Library of Southern Civilization
- Author: Mills, Gary B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 13, 2013
- ISBN10: 0807137138
- Language: English
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In Search of Buddy Bolden: First Man of Jazz
$26.95 Add to cartThe beginnings of jazz and the story of Charles “Buddy” Bolden (1877-1931) are inextricably intertwined. Just after the turn of the century, New Orleanians could often hear Bolden’s powerful horn from
- Author: Marquis, Donald M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01, 2005
- ISBN10: 0807130931
- Language: English
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Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest (Revised)
$34.95 Add to cartConsidering the course his life took, one might wonder how Zachary Taylor ever came to be elected the twelfth president of the United States. According to K. Jack Bauer, Taylor “was and remains an eni
- Series: Southern Biography
- Author: Bauer, K. Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: August 01, 1993
- ISBN10: 0807118516
- Language: English
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Double Effect: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartMartha Serpas’s Double Effect reimagines a principle first outlined by St. Thomas Aquinas in Summa Theologica, which considers whether an action is morally permissible if it causes harm while bringin
- Series: Barataria Poetry
- Author: Serpas, Martha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: August 19 2020
- ISBN10: 0807172758
- Language: English
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A Scar Where Goodbyes Are Written: An Anthology of Venezuelan Poets in Chile
$39.95 Add to cartBronze medal winner of the International Latino Book Awards Best Poetry Anthology
A Scar Where Goodbyes Are Written is a bilingual anthology of poetry written by fifteen Venezuelan poets who are curre- Author: Brunson, David M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: February 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179191
- Language: English
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Inside the Carnival: Unmasking Louisiana Politics
$24.95 Add to cartWith both an entertainer’s eye and a social scientist’s rigor, Wayne Parent subjects Louisiana’s politics to rational and empirical analysis, seeking and finding coherent reasons for the state’s well-
- Author: Parent, Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 01, 2006
- ISBN10: 0807131989
- Language: English
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The Afflicted Girls
$19.95 Add to cartTwenty individuals were executed and more than 150 imprisoned. The historical body of evidence that remains from the Salem witch trials of 1692 touched the hands, mind, and imagination of poet Nicole … [more below]
- Author: Cooley, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 50
- Publish Date: April 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0807129461
- Language: English
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Passing Through Customs: New & Selected Poems
$21.95 Add to cart- Author: Ruark, Gibbons
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0807123625
- Language: English
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Lincoln’s Unfinished Work: The New Birth of Freedom from Generation to Generation
$49.95 Add to cartIn his Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln promised that the nation’s sacrifices during the Civil War would lead to a “new birth of freedom.” Lincoln’s Unfinished Work analyzes how the United States h
- Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
- Author: Burton, Orville Vernon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0807176761
- Language: English
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The Party Is Over: The New Louisiana Politics
$39.95 Add to cartFor decades, the Louisiana political scene has been a source of interest and intrigue for scholars and casual observers alike. In recent years, the state’s political, economic, and environmental chall
- Author: Maloyed, Christie L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 16, 2022
- ISBN10: 0807176583
- Language: English
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Saint Agnostica: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartSaint Agnostica is the final work of Anya Krugovoy Silver, a poet celebrated for her incisive writing about illness, motherhood, and Christian faith. The poems in this collection dance between opposit… [more below]
- Author: Silver, Anya Krugovoy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: September 01 2021
- ISBN10: 080717565X
- Language: English
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Glance: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartGlance, the second collection of poetry by Chanda Feldman, explores the experiences of a Black and white and Jewish American family that moves abroad to find respite from contemporary racial violence.
- Author: Feldman, Chanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 66
- Publish Date: August 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0807182478
- Language: English
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The Cachoeira Tales and Other Poems
$19.95 Add to cartSoaring images, rhythmic language, and wry humor come together in these three narrative poems that explore travel from an African American historical and social perspective. A cab ride turns into an a
- Author: Nelson, Marilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0807130648
- Language: English
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Invention of the Wilderness: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartIn Invention of the Wilderness, Bruce Bond explores the wilderness as a spiritual, psychological, and ecological realm–a territory that, depending on our tolerances and affections, calls out for ord… [more below]
- Author: Bond, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: October 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0807177962
- Language: English
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Knights of the Golden Circle: Secret Empire, Southern Secession, Civil War
$39.95 Add to cartBased on years of exhaustive and meticulous research, David C. Keehn’s study provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Knights of the Golden Circle, a secret southern society that initially sou
- Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
- Author: Keehn, David C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179531
- Language: English
