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Featured publications
You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis & the Biography of a Song
Mann, Robert. You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis & the Biography of a Song. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2025.
The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930
Bardes, John. K. The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2024.
Mad with Freedom: The Political Economy of Blackness, Insanity, and Civil Rights in the U.S. South, 1840–1940
Edwards-Grossi, Élodie. Mad with Freedom: The Political Economy of Blackness, Insanity, and Civil Rights in the U.S. South, 1840–1940. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2023.
Freedom's Crescent: The Civil War and the Destruction of Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley
Rodrigue, John C. Freedom's Crescent: The Civil War and the Destruction of Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights
Freeman, Samuel G. Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
Swarns, Rachel. The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church. New York: Random House, 2023.
Kingfish U: Huey Long and LSU
Mann, Robert. Kingfish U: Huey Long and LSU. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2023.
Lost Causes: Confederate Demobilization and the Making of Veteran Identity
Clampitt, Bradley R. Lost Causes: Confederate Demobilization and the Making of Veteran Identity. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2022.
The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920-1950
Karen Hunger Parshall, Karen. The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920-1950. Princeton University Press; 2022.
Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South
Müller, Viola Franziska. Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2022.
Rough Tactics: Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877–1932
Johnson, Mark A. Rough Tactics: Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877–1932. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2021.
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
Rothman, Joshua D. The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America. New York: Basic Books, 2021.
Carville's Cure: leprosy, stigma, and the fight for justice
Fessler, Pam. Carville's cure : leprosy, stigma, and the fight for justice. Liveright Publishing Corporation; 2020
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1860-1919
Hoffman, Paul E. Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1860-1919: a history. Louisiana State University Press, 2020.
A Kingdom of Water
D'Oney, J. Daniel. A kingdom of water : adaptation and survival in the Houma Nation. University of Nebraska Press, 2020.
Reconstruction: America after the Civil War
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. Reconstruction: America after the Civil War / a film by McGee Media and Inkwell Films; series producer, Julia Marchesi; written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; a production of McGee Media, Inkwell Films and WETA Washington DC. PBS; 2019
The frescoes of Conrad Albrizio
Bercier, Carolyn A. The frescoes of Conrad Albrizio : public murals in the midcentury South. Louisiana State University Press; 2019
Maryland, My Maryland: music and patriotism during the American Civil War
Davis, James A. Maryland, my Maryland : music and patriotism during the American Civil War. University of Nebraska Press; 2019
Accounting for Slavery
Rosenthal, Caitlin. Accounting for slavery: masters and management. Harvard University Press, 2019.
Native Flora of Louisiana
Stones, Margaret. Native flora of Louisiana : watercolor drawings / by Margaret Stones; with botanical descriptions by Lowell E. Urbatsch. Louisiana State University Press; 2018
Pistols and politics : feuds, factions, and the struggle for order in Louisiana's Florida Parishes
Hyde, Samuel C. Pistols and Politics: Feuds, Factions, and the Struggle for Order in Louisiana’s Florida Parishes, 1810–1935. Louisiana State University Press, 2018.
Beyond Racism and Poverty
Lurvink, Karin. Beyond racism and poverty : the truck system on Louisiana plantations and Dutch peateries, 1865-1920. Brill; 2018
The Vietnam War
Ward, Geoffrey C. The Vietnam War : an intimate history / with an introduction by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick ; based on a documentary film by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick ; picture research by Salimah El-Amin with Lucas B. Frank ; design by Maggie Hinders. Alfred A. Knopf; 2017.
Spiritualism in nineteenth-century New Orleans
Daggett, Melissa. Spiritualism in nineteenth-century New Orleans : the life and times of Henry Louis Rey. University Press of Mississippi; 2017
Win the race or die trying
McGuire, Jack B. Win the race or die trying : Uncle Earl's last hurrah. University Press of Mississippi; 2016
The Louisiana field guide
Orgera, Ryan (Ed.) and Parent, Wayne (Ed.) The Louisiana Field Guide: Understanding Life in the Pelican State. Louisiana State University Press; 2014
Imagining the Creole City
Fertel, Rien. Imagining the Creole City : the rise of literary culture in nineteenth-century New Orleans. Louisiana State University Press; 2014
The Architecture of LSU
Desmond, John Michael. The Architecture of LSU. Louisiana State University Press; 2013
Louisiana Women: their lives and times
Allured, Janet and Gentry, Judith, F. Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times. The University of Georgia Press; 2009
Old South Baton Rouge
Hendry, Petra M., Edwards, Jay D., and Ware Carolyn. Old South Baton Rouge: The Roots of Hope. University of Louisiana at Lafayette; 2009
Coolies and Cane
Jung, Moon-Ho. Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation. Johns Hopkins University Press; 2006
Kingfish: the reign of Huey P. Long
White, Richard D. Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long. Random House; 2006
The Sugar Masters: planters and slaves in Louisiana's cane world, 1820-1860
Follett, Richard J. The Sugar Masters: planters and slaves in Louisiana's cane world, 1820-1860. Louisiana State University Press, 2005.
Reconstruction in the cane fields
Rodrigue, John C. Reconstruction in the cane fields: from slavery to free labor in Louisiana's sugar parishes, 1862-1880. Louisiana State University Press, 2001.
Recent articles and book chapters
Recent articles and book chapters citing the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections can be browsed below on JSTOR. Researchers with university or other research library affiliations may be able to access individual articles by logging in with their credentials. We also recommend searching for the book or journal title in the LSU library catalog to see if the publication is available to request through LSU Libraries.