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Something Like "Yes", Laura J. Mcknight Ms.
Something Like "Yes", Laura J. Mcknight Ms.
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
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Jenkins, James C., 1812-1856 - Letters To (Sc 680), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jenkins, James C., 1812-1856 - Letters To (Sc 680), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 680. Two letters to James Jenkins, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from New Orleans commission merchants, discussing terms of sale of lard, hams, grease, pork, tobacco and beef consigned by Jenkins.
Duncan, Joseph Dillard, 1814-1905 (Sc 881), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Duncan, Joseph Dillard, 1814-1905 (Sc 881), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 881. Letter, 11 October 1837, written by Joseph Dillard Duncan, Clinton, Louisiana, to James M. Covington, Bowling Green, Kentucky, discussing horse trading and an attempted hanging.
Oliver, James Earl (Sc 874), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Oliver, James Earl (Sc 874), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 874. Letters, 1967 (12), written chiefly by Private James Earl Oliver from Fort Polk, Louisiana, and Fort Sam Houston, Texas, to his wife Elizabeth, Bowling Green, Kentucky. He describes his day-to-day military life.
Shannon, Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1895 (Sc 561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shannon, Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1895 (Sc 561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (click on Additional Files) for Manuscripts Small Collection 561. Journal of a voyage from South Union, Kentucky to New Orleans, Louisiana, which was kept by Thomas Jefferson Shannon, a selling agent for and a member of the South Union Colony of Shakers. The pagination refers to the typed copy of the journal which is also indexed mainly by names and places.
Two Histories, One Future : Louisiana Sugar Planters, Their Slaves, And The Anglo-Creole Schism, 1815-1865, Nathan Buman
Two Histories, One Future : Louisiana Sugar Planters, Their Slaves, And The Anglo-Creole Schism, 1815-1865, Nathan Buman
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
During the five decades between the War of 1812 and the end of the Civil War, southern Louisianans developed a society unlike any other region. The vibrant traditional image of moonlight and magnolias, the notion that King Cotton dominated the South’s economy as Anglo-Saxon masters lorded over their enslaves African-American workers still dominates the image of the American South. This image of a monolithic South, however, does not give a clear indication of the many sub-regional distinctions that both challenged and rewarded the inhabitants of those areas and provides exciting ways to understand slaveholding society culturally. Louisiana’s slaveholding class consisted …
I Died I Lived : Shaping An Ecological Balance, Shelby Prindaville
I Died I Lived : Shaping An Ecological Balance, Shelby Prindaville
LSU Master's Theses
I Died I Lived: Shaping an Ecological Balance is a body of work about our tenuous ecological situation and the power humanity has to preserve or destroy it. Through a broad range of two- and three-dimensional media, my installation transforms the gallery into an environment that demonstrates the enrichment nature delivers and the compensatory responsibility we have to conserve that experience.