This is not an exhaustive list, but a suggested starting point for understanding campaigns and elections in Louisiana. See Notes & Tips tab for suggested sources of articles and books online.
Adams, William. “Louisiana and the Presidential Election of 1848.” Louisiana History 4 no. 2 (Spring 1963): 131-143.
Adams, William H. “The Louisiana Whigs.” Louisiana History 15 no. 3 (Summer 1974): 213-228.
Carriere, Marius M., Jr. "Anti-Catholicism, Nativism and Louisiana Politics in the 1850s.” Louisiana History 35 no. 4 (Autumn 1994): 455-474.
Carwardine, Richard. “Lincoln and Emancipation: Black Enfranchisement in 1863 Louisiana.” OAH Magazine of History 21, no. 1 (January 2007): 45-50.
Corrales, Barbara Smith. “Parlors, Politics, and Privilege: Clubwomen and the Failure of Woman Suffrage in Lafayette, Louisiana, 1897-1922.” Louisiana History 38 no.4 (Autumn 1997): 453-471.
Danesh, Yousef. “The Unsuccessful Struggles of a Black Community to Incorporate: A Case Study, Scotlandville.” Journal of Black Studies 3 no. 2 (November 1999): 184-203.
Dauphine, James G. “The Knights of the White Camelia and the Election of 1868: Louisiana's White Terrorists; A Benighting Legacy.” Louisiana History 30 no. 2 (Spring 1989): 173-190.
De, Jong G. A Different Day: African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900-1970. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Faulkenbury, Evan. "Monroe is Hell": Voter Purges, Registration Drives, and the Civil Rights Movement in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. Louisiana History 59 no. 1 (Winter 2018): 40-66.
Fenton and Vines, “Negro Registration in Louisiana.” American Political Science Review 51 no. 3 (September 1957): 704-713.
Gilley, B. H. “Kate Gordon and Louisiana Woman Suffrage.” Louisiana History 24 no. 3 (Summer 1983): 289-306.
Gilley, B.H. “A Woman for Women: Eliza Nicholson, Publisher of the New Orleans Daily Picayune.” Louisiana History 30 no. 3 (Summer 1989): 233-248.
Green, Elna C. “The Rest of the Story: Kate Gordon and the Opposition to the Nineteenth Amendment in the South.” Louisiana History 33 no. 2 (Spring 1992): 171-189.
Hebert, Mary Jacqueline. Beyond Black and White: The Civil Rights Movement in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1945-1972. PhD diss., Louisiana State University, 1999.
Heisterman, Carl A. and Paris F. Keener. “Further Poor Law Notes.” Social Service Review 8 no. 1 (March 1934): 43-49.
Hyde, Samuel C. Pistols and Politics: The Dilemma of Democracy in Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1810-1899. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996.
Jeansonne, Glen. “Racism and Longism in Louisiana: The 1959-60 Gubernatorial Elections.” Louisiana History 11 no. 3 (Summer 1970): 259-270.
Jones, Howard T. “Biographical Sketches of Members of the 1868 Louisiana State Senate.” Louisiana History 19 no.1 (Winter 1978): 65-110.
Kazee, Thomas. “The Impact of Electoral Reform.” Publius 13 no. 1 (1983): 131-139.
Keyssar, Alexander. The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States. New York: Basic Books, 2000.
Mann, Robert. Legacy to Power: Senator Russell Long of Louisiana. New York: Paragon House, 1992.
Mann, Robert. When Freedom Would Triumph: The Civil Rights Struggle in Congress, 1954-1968. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007.
Martin, Boyd A. “The Service Vote in the Elections of 1944.” The American Political Science Review 39 no. 4 (August 1945): 720-732.
McCrary, Peyton. Abraham Lincoln and Reconstruction: The Louisiana Experiment. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978.
Moran, Robert E. “Local Black Elected Officials in Ascension Parish (1868-1878).” Louisiana History: 27 no. 3 (Summer 1986): 273-280.
Pellegrin, Charles J. “Louisiana Progressivism and the American Reform Experience: Administrative Reorganization, 1920–48.” Louisiana History 37, no. 2 (Spring 1996): 201–15.
Ray, P. Orman. “Military Absent-Voting Laws.” The American Political Science Review 12 no. 3 (August 1918): 461-469.
Rayback, Joseph G. Free Soil: The Election of 1848. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1971.
Redard, Thomas E. “The Election of 1844 in Louisiana: A New Look at the Ethno-Cultural Approach.” Louisiana History 22 no. 4 (Autumn 1981): 419-433.
Rodrigue, John C. Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana's Sugar Parishes, 1862-1880. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.
Sacher, John. "'The Ladies are Moving Everywhere': Louisiana Women and Antebellum Politics.” Louisiana History 42 no. 4 (Autumn 2001): 439-457.
Sacher, John M. A Perfect War of Politics: Parties, Politicians, and Democracy in Louisiana, 1824-1861. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003.
Sacher, John M. “The Sudden Collapse of the Louisiana Whig Party.” Journal of Southern History 65 no. 2 (May 1999): 221-248.
Sanson, Jerry Purvis. “White Man's Failure: The Rapides Parish 1874 Election.” Louisiana History 31 no. 1 (Winter 1990): 39-58.
Schott, Matthew J. “Class Conflict in Louisiana Voting Since 1877: Some New Perspectives.” Louisiana History 12 no. 2 (Spring 1971): 149-165.
Shepherd, Samuel C., Jr. “In Pursuit of Louisiana Progressives.” Louisiana History 46 no. 4 (Autumn 2005): 389-406.
Shugg, Rogert W. Suffrage and Representation in Ante-bellum Louisiana. [New Orleans]: [Louisiana Historical Society], [1936].
Smith, Armantine M. "The History of the Woman's Suffrage Movement in Louisiana." Louisiana Law Review 62 no. 2 (Winter 2002): 509-560.
Spiers, Patricia Loraine. The Woman Suffrage Movement in New Orleans. M.A. thesis, Southeastern Louisiana College, 1965.
Summers, Mark W. “The Moderates' Last Chance: The Louisiana Election of 1865.” Louisiana History 24 no. 1 (Winter 1983): 49-69.
Tarver, Jerry L. “The Political Clubs of New Orleans in the Presidential Election of 1860.” Louisiana History 4 no. 2 (Spring 1963): 119-129.
Taylor, Joe G. Louisiana Reconstructed, 1863-1877. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1974.
Tunnel, T. B., Jr. “The Negro, The Republican Party and the Election of 1876 in Louisiana.” Louisiana History 7 no. 2 (Spring 1966): 101-116.
Uzee, Philip D. “The Beginnings of the Louisiana Republican Party.” Louisiana History 12 no. 3 (Summer 1971): 197-211.
Uzee, Philip D. “The Republican Party in the Louisiana Election of 1896.” Louisiana History 2 no. 3 (Summer 1961): 332-344.
Vandal, Gilles. “‘Bloody Caddo’: White Violence against Blacks in a Louisiana Parish, 1865-1876.” Journal of Social History 25 no. 2 (Winter 1991): 373-388.
Vandal, Gilles. “Politics and Violence in Bourbon Louisiana: Loreauville Riot of 1884 as a Case Study.” Louisiana History 30 no. 1 (Winter 1989): 23-42.
Vincent, Charles. The African American Experience in Louisiana. Lafayette, LA: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1999.
Vincent, Charles. “‘Of Such Historical Importance...’: The African American Experience in Louisiana.” Louisiana History 50 no. 2 (Spring 2009): 133-158.
Wall, Bennett H. and John C. Rodrigue. Louisiana: A History. Hoboken: Wiley, 2013.
Wang, Tova A. The Politics of Voter Suppression: Defending and Expanding Americans' Right to Vote. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012.
Webb, Allie Bayne Windham. A History of Negro Voting in Louisiana, 1877-1906. PhD diss., Louisiana State University, 1962.
White, Melvin Johnson. “Populism in Louisiana During the Nineties.” Mississippi Valley History Review 5 no. 1 (June 1918): 3-19.
Williams, Lou Falkner. “Federal Enforcement of African American Voting Rights in the Post-Redemption South: Louisiana and the Election of 1878.” Louisiana History 55 no. 3 (Summer 2014): 313-343.
Wilson, James D., Jr. “Donaldsonville Incident of 1870: A Study of Local Party Dissension and Republication Infighting during Reconstruction in Louisiana.” Louisiana History 38 no. 3 (Summer 1997): 329-345.
Wingo, Barbara C. “The 1928 Presidential Election in Louisiana.” Louisiana History 18 no. 4 (Autumn 1977): 405-435.
Zelizer, Julian E. and Gareth Davies. America at the Ballot Box: Elections and Political History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.