louisiana

Presents a biography of the Louisiana governor, Huey P. Long, who made Louisiana the first state to furnish free text books for public schools.

Ten stories trace the connections between four generations of one Louisiana family from 1939 when a young girl leaves school to help support her family to 2006 when an eighty-year-old woman embarks on a book tour.

Presents the diary of Priscilla Bond, a young woman who left the genteel Protestant seaboard culture of Chesapeake Bay and moved to a frontier plantation in south Louisiana with her husband in 1865, and witnessed the brutality of the Civil War.

Recounts the Battle of New Orleans and the efforts of Andrew Jackson and French pirate Jean Laffite as they struggled to hold on to the city of New Orleans and thwart the British army.

Presents an overview of the origins and evolution of all the Francophone communities in the southern Louisiana region, which has been identified by ethnographers as the most complex rural society in North America.

Chronicles the lives and exploits of Jean and Pierre Laffite, privateers along the Gulf Coast during the early 1800s and describes how they raided Spanish merchant ships and came to assist the U.S. against English during the War of 1812.

In a small Louisiana mill town in 1940, Jolene does not want her Mama to marry the logger who is courting her, but it seems that even her most defiantly bad behavior cannot make him go away.