We seldom get a full sense of Louisiana's landscape from the ground. The horizon can elude us, as...

This ground breaking study is the first to comprehensively examine the history of yellow fever in...

James Nolan describes this collection of his New Orleans poems as an 'autobiography of place,' fo...

New Iberia was founded by a handful of Spaniards in the spring of 1779. In the more than two hund...

The Bringiers were among Louisiana's most prominent families during most of the 19th century. Tho...

A history of the South Louisiana, German community of Roberts Cove from 1880 to 2007, including a...

Whenever outlanders think of Louisiana, many automatically call to mind images of trappers in the...

The history of Louisiana is replete with many prominent personalities who were instrumental in gu...

A study of William Claiborne's eventful career is infinitely more than the mere chronicle of a re...

Louisiana almost defies logic when it comes to sports. Its native sons, daughters, and teams have...

Arrete Pas La Musique!: Portraits of South Louisiana

The social dichotomy in Louisiana between Protestantism and Catholicism, already statistically ap...

'The fifteen stories in Make Some Wretched Fool to Pay focus on the fraught relationship between ...

'In 1804, James Workman published Liberty in Louisiana, a play celebrating the Louisiana Purchase...

Monster of the Deep: The Louisiana State Museum's Civil War-Era Submarine

In Ordinary Light: New and Selected Poems is a compilation of poems written by Darrell Bourque, L...

As the French and Indian war ended, Spain acquired the huge and undefined French province of Loui...

The Windmill Chaser: Triumphs and Less in American Politics

That Was Then: Memories of Cane River

The passage of the fiftieth anniversary of the Great Depression sparked a flurry of publications ...

Story of two Acadian lovers separated during the Grand Derangement with a happier fate.

Features the period from the 1920s to the present with topics such as geography, politics, econom...

Show & Tell

The Good Times Rolled comes from the French phrase laissez les bons temps rouler, which symbolize...

Ghosts of Good Times: South Louisiana Dance Halls Past and Present examines a world of Cajun danc...

The Land South of the Clouds

Grand Coteau

Bout It 'bout It: The Political Power of Just Being

Spirits of the Gods: Poems

Preventing Lethal Violence in New Orleans: A Great American City

Louisiana Trail Riders

The Land Baron's Sun: The Story of Lay Loc and His Seven Wives

Lincoln in New Orleans: The 1828 1831 Flatboat Voyages and Their Place in History reconstructs, t...

Audubon: A Retrospective, a collection of essays written to mark the bicentennial of the artist's...

Last Days of Last Island is the most comprehensive account of the great 1856 Isle Derniere hurric...

For persons lacking an emotional attachment to the region, it is easy to see how South Louisiana'...

Martha Ambrose: The Rediscovery of a Southern Regional Artist

'Winner of the William Faulkner-Wisdom Gold Medal in the Novel.'

Essays on social and technological expansion in Louisiana.

Creoles established themselves in South Louisiana long before Acadian exiles reached the shores o...

David Langlinais weaves textured, evocative tales of family and outdoorsmanship, of the human str...

Known to many as 'The Godfather of Swamp Pop,' Warren 'Storm' Schexnider is a Louisiana music leg...

Features the period between the early 1770s and the late 1850s with topics such as geography, pol...

On May 10, 1785, the Bon Papa, a modest three-master of 280 tons, hoisted its sails at Paimboeuf,...

Dickie Landry's New York: 1969-1979

Anthologie de la Littrature Louisianaise d'Expression Francaise de 1682 Nos Jours

A Tip Tap Tale

Essays include: 'The Expulsion of the Acadians in a Broader Context' by John Mack Faragher (Yale ...