Who was Huey Long? What did he achieve as governor and as United States senator? How has his career affected Louisiana history? In 1993, at a symposium at LouisianaTechUniversity commemorating the centennial of Long's birth, eight historians addressed these questions, building upon and sometimes challenging earlier biographies. Three other speakers, two journalists and a criminal investigator, examined the controversial circumstances surrounding Long's death. (more detailed description) (list of contributions) HUEY AT 100: Centennial Essays on Huey P. Long  Edited by Glen Jeansonne August, 1995;  ISBN: 0-940231-08-5;  Cost: $22.95  $16.95 191 pages, sources, illustrations, index, hardback

 

A history of the Henry Marshall family that moved from the South Carolina Piedmont to North Louisiana. Chronicled are descriptions of Land'sEndPlantation and everyday life-social activities, education, recreations, religion, subsistence, travels-from the 1830s to the Civil War. (more detailed description) END OF THE LAND: A South Carolina Family on the Louisiana Frontier  McGinty Monograph Series     Author: Goodloe Stuck  December, 1992;  ISBN: 0-940231-07-7;  Cost: $24.95  $19.95 228 pages, sources, illustrations, index, hardback

 

Moore 's reminiscences include her journey from South Carolina to Louisiana on the eve of the Civil War and descriptions of hill-country life in North Louisiana, including her adult life at Loyd Hall on Bayou Boeuf. Also of interest are her accounts of the Union Army's drive up Red River , the burning of Alexandria , and the Colfax Riot during Reconstruction. Social life of the plantation gentry described by Moore includes ring tournaments, cotillions, and sugar-house parties. (more detailed description) WAR, RECONSTRUCTION AND REDEMPTION ON REDRIVER : The Memoirs of Dosia Williams Moore   Edited by Carol Wells May, 1991;  ISBN: 0-940231-06-9;  Cost: $19.95  $15.95 135 pages, index, hardback

 

Louisiana's railroads supplied food to the people of New Orleans and helped evacuate General Mansfield Lowell's Confederate Army. The V.S .&T. and the Southern Pacific were links in the Trans-Mississippi supply route. The author describes how both Union and Confederate forces attempted to exploit the railroads. (more detailed description) CONFEDERATE NECKTIES: Louisiana Railroads in the Civil War McGinty Monograph Series Author: Lawrence E. Estaville, Jr.  October, 1989;  ISBN: 0-940231-05-0;  Cost: $16.95  $12.50 123 pages, sources, illustrations, index, hardback

 

This analysis of political leadership in New Orleans describes how the Regular Democrats, with the support of working-class whites and immigrants, exercised control over the more reform-minded business and professional Citizens League. Both factions were dedicated to white supremacy, and their rivalry dominated politics in Louisiana until the advent of Huey Long in 1928.  (more detailed description) POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN A SOUTHERN CITY: New Orleans in the Progressive Era, 1897-1902 McGinty Monograph Series     Author: Edward F. Haas December, 1988;   ISBN: 0-940231-04-2;  Cost: $15.95  $11.95 175 pages, sources, illustrations, appendices, index, hardcover

 

This volume consists of selections from Wiley W. Hilburn, Jr.'s "Fragments" column, which has appeared in The Times (of Shreveport) since 1978. The selections reveal an intensely personal view of North Louisiana: personalities, politics, personal experiences, humor and the North Louisiana landscape.  OUT OF PRINT more detailed description FRAGMENTS: Wiley W. Hilburn, Jr. 's North Louisiana  Edited by Billy H. Gilley; January 1987; ISBN: 0-940231-00-X;   352 pages, illus., index

 

Blending the French documentary record with existing scholarly accounts, this study presents a fresh perspective of the rebellion stemming from France 's transfer of the Louisiana colony to Spain at the end of the French and Indian War. The role of the ordonnateur, Denis-Nicolas Foucault, is amplified. Of special interest are the shortcomings of French colonial policy toward Louisiana. OUT OF PRINT more detailed description DENIS-NICOLAS FOUCAULT AND THE NEW ORLEANS REBELLION OF 1768 McGinty Monograph Series     Author: Carl A. Brasseaux April, 1987;  ISBN: 0-940231-01-8;  104 pages, index, hardcover

 

This volume defines the antebellum outlines of North Louisiana. The essayists delineate the historical and geographic forces that have shaped the development of the North Louisiana region. Themes treated are the colonial rivalries of France, Spain, England, plantation agriculture along the Mississippi, Ouachita, and RedRivers, yeoman farmers and small planters,  transportation, ethnicity, politics, religion, education, and the Civil War.   more detailed description        list of contributions NORTH LOUISIANA, VOLUME ONE: To 1865, Essays on the Region and Its History Edited by Billy H. Gilley; March, 1984; ISBN: 0-940231-03-4; Cost: $12.95  OUT OF PRINT 214 pages, sources, index

 

This brief biography of Colonel Israel Shreve, father of Shreveport founder Henry Miller Shreve, affords the reader a perspective of the conflict with Great Britain not often enjoyed, that of a Quaker farmer who labored unspectacularly but faithfully in the cause of independence.   more detailed description ISRAEL SHREVE: Revolutionary War Office by William Y. Thompson McGinty Monograph Series;  May, 1979; ISBN: 0-940231-02-6;  Cost: $4.80  $3.50 100 pages, sources, index, hardback

 
 

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