louisiana

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.

Presents information about the state of Louisiana and its nickname, motto, and emblems.

Presents the complete text of "The Awakening" by nineteenth-century American novelist Kate Chopin and contains biographical, historical, and cultural contexts, as well as critical essays that analyzes her work.

D'Ray Reid, imprisoned for killing a young man in a convenience store robbery, is forced to reckon with his crime when he is befriended by the dead boy's father.

Six silly friends spend a day trying to figure out how to proceed with their fishing trip when one thing after another goes wrong.

When eleven-year-old Don Schmidt wins a chicken-judging contest in his small town of Horse Island, Louisiana, and goes from outcast to instant celebrity, even his neglectful mother occasionally takes notice of him and eventually he discovers some shocking family secrets.

Traces the career of Jean Lafitte through his days as a Gulf of Mexico buccaneer to his role as defender of New Orleans and his final disappearance in 1826 under uncertain circumstances.