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These two unusual personal journals, linked by curious happenstance in a single notebook, open up intriguing, provocative, and surprisingly complementary new vistas on antebellum Baton Rouge and the Civil War on the Mississippi.

In the first book-length study of Valerie Martin's fiction, Veronica Makowsky explores the work of this lauded, but often overlooked, contemporary novelist. Despite her successes, Martin's critically acclaimed novels and stories have yet to attain a broad readership. Makowsky addresses this disconnect through a critical study of Martin's oeuvre.

Through a life that spanned every decade of the twentieth century, Supreme Court advocate Bessie Margolin shaped modern American labour policy while creating a place for female lawyers in the America's highest courts. In this biography, Marlene Trestman reveals the forces that propelled and the obstacles that impeded Margolin's remarkable journey.

Argues that the Confederate nation was an expedient corporatist state - a society that required all sectors of the economy to work for the national interest, as defined by a partnership of industrial leaders and a dominant government.

Historians have long known that German immigrants provided much of the support for emancipation in southern Border States. Kristen Layne Anderson's Abolitionizing Missouri, however, is the first analysis of the reasons behind that opposition.

In John Kennedy Toole's iconic novel, Ignatius J. Reilly is never short of opinions about food or far away from his next bite. For the novel's millions of fans, Cynthia LeJeune Nobles's A Confederacy of Dunces Cookbook offers recipes inspired by the delightfully commonplace and always delicious fare of Ignatius and his cohorts.

Examines the work of the Wiener brothers from the 1920s to the 1960s, detailing the evolutionary process of their designs. Throughout, architectural descriptions of the buildings, archival images, photographs and discussion of social and economic culture inform a deeper appreciation for the Wieners' role in establishing modernism in the US.

Gwen Roland's debut novel, set in 1907 in a secluded part of Louisiana, follows young adults Loyce Snellgrove, her cousin Lafayette "Fate" Landry, and his friend Valzine Broussard as they navigate between revelations about the past and tensions in the present.

Examines the prominent cultural figures who taught the country how to embrace new values and ideas of citizenship in the aftermath of this groundbreaking "Brown v. Board" decision.

By the end of the 1970s, North Carolina operated the most thoroughly desegregated school system in the US. John Batchelor, a former North Carolina school superintendent, offers a robust analysis of this change and the initiatives that comprised the gradual, and often reluctant, desegregation of the state's public schools.

The Nature Conservancy in Louisiana has served as a steward of the state's ecological riches, protecting and maintaining more than 285,000 acres of the state's land. Now, for the first time, readers can observe the vast array of flora and fauna found in these complex habitats in Louisiana Wild.

Based on voluminous primary source material, The Butlers of Iberville Parish, Louisiana offers an intimate picture of a wealthy nineteenth-century family and the turmoil they faced as a system based on the enslavement of others unraveled.

In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence between slaves in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret challenges persistent notions of slave communities as sites of unwavering harmony and solidarity.

Reveals the untold story of thirteen American journalists in Cuba whose stories about Fidel Castro's revolution changed the way Americans viewed the conflict and altered US foreign policy in Castro's favour. The book is both a masterwork of narrative nonfiction and a deft analysis of the tension between propaganda and objectivity.

The realisation of diversity, resilience, usefulness, profitability, or beauty in landscape design requires a firm understanding of the stakeholders' values. This collection, which incorporates a wide variety of geographic locations and cultural perspectives, reinforces the necessity for clear and articulate comprehension of the design process.

Explores the role of the volunteer officer corps during the Civil War and the unique leadership challenges they faced when military necessity clashed with the antebellum democratic values of volunteer soldiers.

In this bold study of cinematic depictions of violence in the south, Deborah Barker explores the ongoing legacy of the "southern rape complex" in American film. Barker demonstrates how the tropes and imagery of the southern rape complex continue to assert themselves across a multitude of genres, time periods, and stylistic modes.

Del Hall stands as one of the few journalists able to chart their careers through the milestones and icons of the late twentieth century. This captivating biography follows Hall as he is chased by the Ku Klux Klan, shot at by the Viet Cong, journeys to Moscow to cover President Nixon's historic visit, and almost dies in a helicopter crash.

The racialized and exoticized cult of Voodoo occupies a central place in the popular image of the Crescent City. But as Kodi Roberts argues in Voodoo and Power, the religion was not a monolithic tradition handed down from African ancestors to their American-born descendants.

During the second half of the twentieth century, partnerships between public and private entities improved the inventory, health, and productivity of the forestry industry. This book explores the remarkable commercial and environmental gains made possible through the collaboration of industry, universities, and other agencies.

Katie Bickham's poems, set on a Louisiana plantation from 1811 to 2005, speak through the imagined voices of slaves, masters, mistresses, servants, and children. Focused on events that take place in a single room within the plantation home, she offers an unflinching portrayal of the atrocities that form an undeniable part of Louisiana's history.

In this first book to examine both William Faulkner and the music of the south, Tim Ryan identifies provocative parallels of theme and subject in diverse regional genres and texts. Placing Faulkner's literary texts and prewar country blues song lyrics on equal footing, Ryan illuminates the meanings of both in new and unexpected ways.

From the earliest days of Jim Crow, African Americans in New Orleans rallied around the belief that the new system of racially biased laws was neither legitimate nor permanent. Defying Jim Crow tells the story of this community's decades-long struggle against segregation, disenfranchisement, and racial violence.

Deceptively straightforward and subtly pyrotechnic, the poems in Hannah Sanghee Park's debut collection captivate with their wordplay at first glance, then give rise to opportunities for extended reflection.

The settlement of Poverty Point, occupied from about 1700 to 1100 BC and once the largest city in North America, stretches across 345 acres in northeastern Louisiana. Poverty Point: Revealing the Forgotten City delves into this enduring piece of Louisiana's cultural heritage through personal introspection and scientific exploration.

Through the career of Senator James Eastland, one of the mid-century's most prominent politicians, author Maarten Zwiers explores the uneasy, yet mutually beneficial relationship between conservative southerners and the increasingly liberal party to which they belonged.

Employing recent theories of memory from multiple areas of study, Possessing the Past illuminates the tangled relationships among trauma, fantasy, and the public sphere, and their impact on the "South" in imagination and in reality.

Bringing to life the fiction of flappers with tastes beyond bathtub gin, Shaking Up Prohibition in New Orleans serves up recipes from the era of the speakeasy. Originally assembled around 1929, this delightful compendium applauds the city's irrepressible love for cocktails in the format of a classic alphabet book.