LSU Press
They Struggled and Fought, with Courage Fraught
Excerpt from Death or Victory: The Louisiana Native Guards and the Black Military’s Significance in the Civil War
Articles
Winter 2025
From the Ashes
Excerpt from New Orleans: A Concise History of an Exceptional City
LSU Press
Being Once Free
Excerpt from Invisible Blackness: A Louisiana Family in the Age of Racial Passing
Summer 2025
Gateway to Poste de Attakapas
An excerpt from Richard Campanella’s new book Crossroads, Cutoffs, and Confluences (LSU Press)
Spring 2025
“Easier to Sing Than to Talk"
Excerpt from You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis and the Biography of a Song
Winter 2024
“A Meanly Built Village”
An excerpt from Natchitoches, Louisiana, 1803–1840: A Creole Community on the American Frontier
LSU Press
The Witching Hour
An excerpt from Nocturnal New Orleans
Summer 2024
The Gumbo Family Tree
An excerpt from "Gumbo" by Jonathan Olivier
Spring 2024
Won’t Bow Down. Don’t Know How.
An excerpt from The Danse Macabre: Celebration and Survival in New Orleans by Cheryl Gerber
Spring 2024
Weaving the Immigrant Journey into Art
Iranian-born Sara Rastegar curates Living the Unknown
Winter 2023
Victor Séjour, La Société des Artisans, and Afro-Creole Literary Protest
An excerpt from Creole New Orleans in the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1775–1877 by Caryn Cossé Bell
LSU Press
“I am going to do something for you.”
An excerpt from Kingfish U: Huey Long and LSU by Robert Mann
Summer 2023
An Invention You Can Pour
An excerpt from The Vieux Carré by John DeMers
Spring 2023
“I’m Not Playing”
An excerpt from Moving the Chains: The Civil Rights Protest That Saved the Saints and Transformed New Orleans
Winter 2022
I Wanted to Read About the South: Becoming a Writer
An excerpt from Cherie Quarters: The Place and the People That Inspired Ernest J. Gaines, by Ruth Laney
LSU Press
The Reach of New Orleans Drumming: “He Taught Me a Lesson”
An Excerpt from Drumsville! by Robert H. Cataliotti
