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A Black Patriot and a White Priest: André Caillou...
$24.39
Stephen J. Ochs chronicles the intersecting lives of the first black military Civil War hero, Captain André Cailloux of the 1st Louisiana Native Guards, and the lone Catholic clerical voice of abolition in New Orleans, the Reverend Claude Paschal Maistre. Their paths converged in July 1863, when Mai..
A Cold War Turning Point: Nixon and China, 1969-19...
$10.68
In February 1972, President Nixon arrived in Beijing for what Chairman Mao Zedong called the "week that changed the world." Using recently declassified sources from American, Chinese, European, and Soviet archives, Chris Tudda's A Cold War Turning Point reveals new details about the relationship for..
A Louisiana Coastal Atlas: Resources, Economies, a...
$28.69
Author: Humphrey, William Publisher: LSU Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0807120677 ISBN-13: 9780807120675..
A Walk in Victoria's Secret: Poems (Southern Messe...
$20.91
With A Walk in Victoria's Secret, Kate Daniels crafts a bold, brassy, yet delicate vision of a woman's growth. Imbued with a unique poetic voice that is utterly feminist, these poems possess a fiery intensity for those abuses no woman can ever quite recover from, but also reveal the loving, forgivin..
A Writer's Companion
$8.45
In A Writer’s Companion, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., has drawn on his years of accumulated wisdom as well as the advice of some fifty prominent writers from various fields to put together in a single volume a vast array of information. Organized in such a way as to make it exceptionally easy to use, and en..
Africans In Colonial Louisiana: The Development of...
$23.44
Although a number of important studies of American slavery have explored the formation of slave cultures in the English colonies, no book until now has undertaken a comprehensive assessment of the development of the distinctive Afro-Creole culture of colonial Louisiana. This culture, based upon a se..
Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia: A Biography
$15.68
WINNER OF THE JEFFERSON DAVIS AWARDRising from humble origins in the middle Georgia cotton belt, Alexander H. Stephens (1812-1883) became one of the South’s leading politicians and lawyers. Thomas E. Schott has written the first scholarly biography that analyzes the interplay between the public and ..
American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Em...
$18.07
Originally published in 1918, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips’s American Negro Slavery was widely hailed upon publication as the most comprehensive and accurate examination of enslaved Africans in the South by an academic historian. In the 1950s, however, a new generation of historians led by Kenneth Stamp ..
An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of...
$38.84
In the summer of 1866, racial tensions ran high in Louisiana as a constitutional convention considered disenfranchising former Confederates and enfranchising blacks. On July 30, a procession of black suffrage supporters pushed through an angry throng of hostile whites. Words were exchanged, shots ra..
Antebellum Homes of Georgia
$12.21
From the stately Gothic Revival and Regency-style houses of Savannah to the majestic, multicolumned plantation homes that punctuate rolling farmlands throughout the state, David King Gleason presents a splendid pictorial record of Georgia's fines pre-Civil War residences.The book begins with the tow..
Atchafalaya Houseboat: My Years in the Louisiana S...
$15.95
In the early 1970s, two idealistic young people -- Gwen Carpenter Roland and Calvin Voisin -- decided to leave civilization and re-create the vanished simple life of their great-grandparents in the heart of Louisiana's million-acre Atchafalaya River Basin Swamp. Armed with a box of crayons and a boo..
Band of Angels: A Novel (Voices of the South)
$10.10
Amantha Starr, born and raised by a doting father on a Kentucky plantation in the years before the Civil War, is the heroine of this powerfully dramatic novel. At her father's death Amantha learns that her mother was a slave and that she, too, is to be sold into servitude. What follows is a vast pan..
Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Martin Luther King Jr...
$8.96
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" is arguably the most important written document of the civil rights protest era and a widely read modern literary classic. Personally addressed to eight white Birmingham clergymen who sought to avoid violence by publicly discouraging King's civi..
Captives and Voyagers: Black Migrants across the E...
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Captives and Voyagers traces the departures, voyages, and landings of enslaved and free blacks who left their homelands in the eighteenth century for British colonies and examines how displacement and resettlement shaped migrant society and, in turn, Britain's Atlantic empire. Alexander X. Byrd focu..
Captives and Voyagers: Black Migrants across the E...
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Jamestown and Plymouth serve as iconic images of British migration to the New World. A century later, however, when British migration was at its peak, the vast majority of men, women, and children crisscrossing the Atlantic on English ships were of African, not English, descent. Captives and Voyager..
Carnival of Fury: Robert Charles and the New Orlea...
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One July week in 1900 an obscure black laborer named Robert Charles drew national headlines when he shot twenty-seven whites including seven policemen in a series of encounters with the New Orleans police. An avid supporter of black emigration, Charles believed it foolish to rely on southern whites ..
Contested Territory: Whites, Native Americans, and...
$23.10
The late nineteenth century was a period of tremendous upheaval in American race relations. But while studies abound documenting the changes in relations between whites and African Americans in the northern and southern states during this time, few historians have tackled this topic in the lands of ..
Counterfeit Justice: The Judicial Odyssey of Texas...
$59.33
For many of the forty years of her life as a slave, Azeline Hearne cohabitated with her wealthy, unmarried master, Samuel R. Hearne. She bore him four children, only one of whom survived past early childhood. When Sam died shortly after the Civil War ended, he publicly acknowledged his relationship ..
Dangerous Hoops: A Forensic Marketing Action Adven...
$11.03
Part crime novel, part textbook, Dangerous Hoops combines the principles of marketing and forensic accounting into a lively narrative to educate and entertain.Set in the world of professional sports, Dangerous Hoops introduces FBI agent Bill Douglass as he pursues a deadly extortionist in order to s..
Delaying the Dream: Southern Senators and the Figh...
$21.64
Few historical events lend themselves to such a sharp delineation between right and wrong as does the civil rights struggle. Consequently, many historical accounts of white resistance to civil rights legislation emphasize the ferocity of the opposition, from the Ole Miss riots to the depredations of..
Earl K. Long: The Saga of Uncle Earl and Louisiana...
$8.90
In a region famous for its flamboyant politicians, Earl K. Long was one of the most flamboyant of them all. This first full-scale biography of the former Louisiana governor explores his controversial life-style and his strong family ties, his raw humor and his political savvy, his abuse of power and..
Ed Kennedy's War: V-E Day, Censorship, and the Ass...
$10.72
On May 7, 1945, Associated Press reporter Ed Kennedy became the most famous -- or infamous -- American correspondent of World War II. On that day in France, General Alfred Jodl signed the official documents as the Germans surrendered to the Allies. Army officials allowed a select number of reporters..
Edge of the Sword: The Ordeal of Carpetbagger Mars...
$9.48
Ted Tunnell's superbly researched biography of Marshall H. Twitchell is a major addition to Reconstruction literature. New England native, Union soldier, Freedmen's Bureau agent, and Louisiana planter, Twitchell became the radical political boss of Red River Parish in the 1870s. He forged an economi..
Flight: A Novel (Voices of the South)
$11.01
Published amid controversy in 1926, Flight focuses on the dilemma of Mimi Daquin, a light-complexioned African American woman who passes, for a time, as white. In the New Orleans of her birth, Mimi never encountered the hierarchies of skin color that existed elsewhere. But when her family moves to A..
Forgotten Prophet: The Life of Randolph Bourne
$10.54
Clayton, Bruce Author: Clayton, Bruce Publisher: LSU Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0807111694 ISBN-13: 9780807111697..