Books from Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana
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The African American Experience in Louisiana: From Jim Crow to civil rights
By Charles VincentThe essays recount the many changes which have occurred in black life in Louisiana during the last fifty years, especially in the political and educational arenas, but they also point...
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The Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Series in Louisiana History: Arts and enterinment in Louisiana
By Patricia BradyThe Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Series in Louisiana History: Arts and enterinment in Louisiana
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Tales from the Levee: The Folklore of St. John the Baptist Parish
By Marcia G. GaudetTales from the Levee: The Folklore of St. John the Baptist Parish
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Louisiana Architecture: A Handbook on Styles
By Jonathan Fricker, Donna Fricker, Patricia L. DuncanIntroduction to architectural styles that have shaped Louisiana's landscapes.
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"Scattered to the Wind": Dispersal and Wanderings of the Acadians, 1755-1809
By Carl A. Brasseaux, University of Southwestern Louisiana. Center for Louisiana StudiesOverview and accounts of the dispersal, life during exile, the ensuing migrations, and the ultimate transplantation.
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Flore Louisiane: An Ethno-botanical Study of French-speaking Louisiana
By Walter C. HolmesA catalog of the plants within the Cajan areas of Southern Louisiana and focuses on native plants within Cajun culture. Includes the French name with entomology and notes, the common...
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A Bibliography of Scholarly Literature on Colonial Louisiana and New France
By Carl A. Brasseaux, Glenn R. ConradA Bibliography of Scholarly Literature on Colonial Louisiana and New France
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The African American Experience in Louisiana: From the Civil War to Jim Crow
By Charles VincentThe work's component essays are presented in chronological order, and they detail events from the Civil War to the end of the nineteenth century.
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New Iberia: Essays on the Town and Its People
New Iberia: Essays on the Town and Its People
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The Saffron Scourge: A History of Yellow Fever in Louisiana, 1796-1905
By Jo Ann CarriganThe Saffron Scourge: A History of Yellow Fever in Louisiana, 1796-1905
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French Louisiana: A Commemoration of the French Revolution Bicentennial
By Glenn R. Conrad, Robert B. HoltmanFrench Louisiana: A Commemoration of the French Revolution Bicentennial
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The Road to Louisiana: The Saint-Domingue Refugees, 1792-1809
By Carl A. Brasseaux, Glenn R. ConradThis anthology constitutes the first attempt to fill comprehensively one of the most enduring lacunae in Louisiana historiography--the French-Antillian migration to the lower Mississippi Valley. Generations of Louisiana historians have...
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White Gold: A Brief History of the Louisiana Sugar Industry, 1795-1995
By Glenn R. Conrad, Ray F. LucasWhite Gold: A Brief History of the Louisiana Sugar Industry, 1795-1995
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Word and Icon, Saying and Seeing
By Lewis Pyenson, Center for Louisiana StudiesWord and Icon, Saying and Seeing
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Louisiana Architecture, 1714-1830
By Fred DaspitLouisiana Architecture, 1714-1830
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The African American Experience in Louisiana: From Africa to the Civil War
By Charles VincentThe African American Experience in Louisiana: From Africa to the Civil War
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The New Orleans Riot of 1866: Anatomy of a Tragedy
By Gilles VandalExamines the social, political, and economic forces that interacted to produce the most notable of the South's Reconstruction riots.
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Uptown/downtown: Growing Up in New Orleans
By Elsie MartinezUptown/downtown: Growing Up in New Orleans
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Acadiana Flora: Native and Naturalized Woody Plants of South-central Louisiana
By William Dean Reese, Garrie Paul LandryAcadiana Flora: Native and Naturalized Woody Plants of South-central Louisiana
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An Uncommon Experience: Law and Judicial Institutions in Louisiana, 1803-2003
By Warren M. Billings, Judith Kelleher SchaferExplores the resulting mixed jurisprudence that is similar, but also different from that of other Southern states or the nation.