Between 1828 and 1850, antebellum Louisiana experienced a period of immense economic and populati...

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...

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

Revitalizing Cities gives readers an inside view of HRI Properties as it explores its history and...

The Land South of the Clouds

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

Working in the Big Easy: The History and Politics of Labor in New Orleans

An Extraordanary Atlantic Life: Sebastiaan Nicolaas Calvo de la Puerta Y O'Farrill, Marquaes de C...

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

When nine special acorns disappear from the Live Oak Museum, Lilla Cornflake hires flying squirre...

Over the past eight years, Tina Freeman has photographed the Louisiana wetlands and Arctic and An...

A curious Cajun girl imagines herself as a series of animals of the Gulf Coast including a shark,...

From New Orleans's vast mythology springs this play featuring Marie Laveau, a young free woman of...

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.

In her fifth book of poetry, Sue Owen, who lived and taught in Louisiana for more than thirty yea...

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...

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

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 ...