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Originally published in 1969, General Lee's College offers the early history of the institution that became Washington and Lee University. Emerging from obscure eighteenth-century origins on the Virginia frontier as Liberty Hall Academy, it struggled for survival against what at times appeared to be overwhelming odds.

Hurricanes, floods, oil spills, disease, and disappearing wetlands are some of the many environmental disasters that impact the Gulf South. The contributors to Environmental Disaster in the Gulf South explore the threat, frequency, and management of this region's disasters from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

As the first collection dedicated to the relationship between television and the US South, Small-Screen Souths addresses the growing interest in how mass culture represents the region and influences popular perceptions of it.

Taking an archaeological perspective on the past, Jeffrey S. Girard traces native human habitation in northwest Louisiana from the end of the last Ice Age, through the formation of the Caddo culture in the tenth century BCE, to the early nineteenth century.

The Civil War era marked the dawn of American wars of military occupation. In the Wake of War traces how volunteer and professional soldiers found themselves tasked with the unprecedented project of wartime and peacetime military occupation, initiating a national debate about the changing nature of American military practice.

Tells the history of one of the US's oldest colleges as it evolved to face changes in higher education and in American society. The alma mater of three US Supreme Court justices, over a hundred members of congress, and winners of the Pulitzer, Nobel, Tony, and Emmy awards, Washington and Lee University receives a full depiction in this history.

Whether your garden consists of large raised beds or a few pots on the patio, Kathryn Fontenot's The Louisiana Urban Gardener offers easy guidelines and useful tools to jump-start and maintain small yet bountiful gardens.

The poems in Girl after Girl after Girl celebrate the connections between mothers and daughters from generation to generation. Through an acknowledgment of mothers' unconditional love, the memories evoked by physical objects, and the stories mothers pass down, these poems explore the common thread that stretches backward and forward.

Offers the first book-length critical evaluation of Howard Chaykin's work and confronts the blind spots in comics scholarship that consign this seminal artist to the margins. Brannon Costello argues that Chaykin's contributions are often overlooked because his comics eschew any pretensions to serious literature.

In poems inspired by and sometimes borrowing their forms from the novena, a nine-day Catholic prayer addressing and seeking intercession from the Virgin Mary, Jacques Rancourt explores the complexities of faith, desire, beauty, and justice.

Offers a remarkably compelling and significant study of the Civil War South's highly contested and bloodiest border states: Kentucky and Missouri. By far the most complex examination to date, the book sharply focuses on the "borderland" between the free North and the Confederate South.

Offers Mardi Gras fans an insider's look at the customs associated with this popular holiday and travels across the state to explore each area's festivities. Brian Costello brings together the stories behind the tradition, gleaned from his research and personal involvement in Carnival.

Reveals the origins and evolution of the Crescent City's world-famous necropolises, exploring both their distinctive architecture and their cultural impact. Spanning centuries, this fascinating body of research takes readers from muddy fields of crude burial markers to extravagantly designed cities of the dead.

Emphasizing the role of erotic entertainment as an outlet and agent of modern sensibilities, Uncovering Paris: Scandals and Nude Spectacles in the Belle Epoque offers a fresh approach to important topics of the period - Bohemian artists, the New Woman, and press censorship - and reinterprets them through the lens of la femme nue.

Advances and broadens our perceptions of the complex revisions in America's collective memory. Notably, the authors uncover the impetus behind the creation of black counter-memories of Reconstruction and the narrative of the "tragic era" that dominated white memory of the period.

While there have been modern scholarly revisions of individual states, most are decades old, and Michael Fitzgerald's Reconstruction in Alabama is the first comprehensive reinterpretation of that state's history in over a century.

Provides an indispensable reference work on Confederate forces over the entire course of the Civil War. Armies in Gray details the development and organisation of the southern armies, their evolution over the course of the conflict, their command structure, and their geographic assignment and placement.

In a collection of poems that moves from meditations on emotions to struggles with a cancer diagnosis, from the comfortable world of sun and sand to the jarring dark corners of the so, R.M. Ryan offers us insights into the experience of living.

Through a wide range of demographic, economic, social, and environmental data, A Louisiana Coastal Atlas shows cartographically how the inherent resilience of coastal communities manifests itself over time.

Provides in-depth case studies of four major writers of the post-World War II era - Paul Bowles, Mary McCarthy, Eudora Welty, and Tennessee Williams - examining how they used the contained aesthetics of short fiction to map out an oppositional stance to the dominant narratives, both political and literary, of mid-twentieth century US culture.

In the series of poems that underpins this collection, David Romtvedt imagines the daily lives of angels as well as other, more earthly, concerns. Whether he is considering the work of raising a child or imagining the work of the divine, Romtvedt displays an appreciation for all that surrounds us.

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The final year of the Civil War witnessed a profound transformation in the practice of modern warfare. In this book, Steven Sodergren examines the transition to trench warfare, the lengthy campaigns of attrition that resulted, and how these seemingly grim new realities affected the mindset and morale of Union soldiers.

Explores how black and white children in the early twentieth-century South learned about segregation in their homes, schools, and churches. As public displays of racial violence declined in the 1920s, a culture of silence developed around segregation, serving to forestall, absorb, and deflect individual challenges to the racial hierarchy.

Explores the experiences of becoming and being a mother through the lens of dark fairy tales. Describing the book as "a surreal survival guide," Jennifer Givhan draws from the southwestern desert, incorporating Latin American fine art and folkloric influences.

Provides a means of identifying the 147 amphibian and reptile species currently known in Louisiana, as well as information on their natural histories (behavior, geographic range, populations, food and feeding habits, reproduction, and habitat).

As usual, it starts with love. I had my heart set on the door-to-door encyclopedia salesboy. So begins Nance Van Winckel's latest collection of poetically altered encyclopaedia entries that feature a mixture of quirky social satire and absurdist wit.

Historians have long discussed the interracial families of prominent slave dealers in Richmond, Virginia, and elsewhere, yet, until now, the story of slave trader Bacon Tait remained untold. Hank Trent tells Tait's complete story for the first time, reconstructing the hidden aspects of his strange and often paradoxical life.

This dazzling collection of landscapes and portraits drawn from the lifework of photographer Fonville Winans (1911-1992) grants readers the opportunity to see his memorable photographs of the people - from oystermen to beauty queens - and the places - from salt mines to cane fields - that exemplify the Pelican State's culture and ecology.

Presents a comparative history of commercial theatre, public opinion, and charitable organisations in eight cities across the Spanish and Anglo-Atlantic worlds during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This innovative study uncovers the rapid expansion of public drama into urban daily life in the Spanish Atlantic.