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Spring 2016 Catalog, Lsu Press

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Seasonal Physiological Dynamics Of Maturing Female Southern Flounder (Paralichthys Lethostigma), Casey A. Grieshaber, Stephen R. Midway, Frederick S. Scharf, Heather Koopman, J. Adam Luckenbach, Mollie A. Middleton

Faculty Publications

Physiological information is rarely used in descriptions of maturity for managed, wild fish species; however, the use of physiological data holds great promise to provide important detail on the complexities of oocyte development and maturity. Investigating southern flounder (Paralichthys lethostigma)—an overfished commercial and recreational fishery resource—we examined pre-spawn physiological changes in females to provide further detail of the maturation process. Given that adults of this species complete maturation and spawn in unknown offshore locations, information on pre-spawn physiological changes is particularly informative for both size- and age-based patterns of maturity. We evaluated seasonal and ontogenetic changes in hormone concentrations in …

Gumbo Yearbook, Class Of 2016, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College

Gumbo Yearbook

The Gumbo yearbook chronicles the entire academic year at LSU. In words and especially photos, the Gumbo shows the people, places, and events that make each year unique. In addition to formal portraits of schools and departments, the book contains hundreds of snapshots of students with their friends and dozens of pages showcasing organizations.

African Fire Cultures, Cattle Ranching, And Colonial Landscape Transformations In The Neo-Tropics, Andrew Sluyter, Chris S. Duvall

Faculty Publications

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Rletters: A Web-Based Application For Text Analysis Of Journal Articles, Charles H. Pence

Faculty Publications

While textual analysis of the journal literature is a burgeoning field, there is still a profound lack of user-friendly software for accomplishing this task. RLetters is a free, open-source web application which provides researchers with an environment in which they can select sets of journal articles and analyze them with cutting-edge textual analysis tools. RLetters allows users without prior expertise in textual analysis to analyze word frequency, collocations, cooccurrences, term networks, and more. It is implemented in Ruby and scripts are provided to automate deployment.

Faculty Senate Newsletter, January 2016, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Message from President: A favorite adage among philanthropically minded people holds that “it’s the people who matter,” that other concerns, whether politics or organizational structure or financing, may re-route the road to success or failure but that character and devotion ultimately determine outcomes. The notion that anyone with “heart” may succeed anywhere and under any circumstances may have a sentimental appeal, but even zeal and commitment must work in or against some sort of structure. Paradoxically, Louisiana decision-makers like the idea that clever people, especially youngsters, can break down any barrier even at the same time that they also adore …

Civil War Treasures: English Satire On The American Civil War From The Pages Of Punch, Hans Rasmussen Micael

Civil War Book Review

Punch, or the London Charivari, a justly famous British weekly satirical magazine established in 1841, had become a national institution by the time the American Civil War began. Its brilliant writers and cartoonists naturally made sport of the politics of the war, casting their witty and di....

Gold And Freedom: The Political Economy Of Reconstruction, Gavin Wright

Civil War Book Review

Rethinking the Politics of Reconstruction: The Republican Party Finds Unity in the Politics of Sectionalism

Nicolas Barreyre, who teaches American history at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, has published a new interpretation of the politics of Reconstruction, emp....

Invisible Sovereign: Imagining Public Opinion From The Revolution To Reconstruction, Robert Shimp

Civil War Book Review

The Evolving Role of Public Opinion in America

While the general public’s thoughts are ubiquitous in our age of constant poll results and social media, Prof. Mark G. Schmeller argues that public opinion also held a central role in early American culture and politics. However, the process t....

Free Labor: The Civil War And The Making Of An American Working Class, Michael Rosenow

Civil War Book Review

From Battlefield to Pickett Line: American Labor Redefined In Free Labor: The Civil War and the Making of an American Working Class, Mark Lause seeks to rectify what he calls an oversight in the history of the Civil War. Neither Civil War historians nor labor historians, he contends, have ad....

Fighting The Civil War In The Classroom: Reconstruction, Sheila Sundar

Civil War Book Review

The Necessary Complexity of Reconstruction I. Ashley Cowart was the type of student for whom teachers, particularly the unexperienced Teach For America set that descended upon New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in his elementary years, had little capacity and energy. In 4th grade ....

Editorial: Wider Worlds And Historical Legacies, Tom Barber

Civil War Book Review

It is a great honor for me to be able to formally introduce myself to our readers. I have been lucky to take over the Civil War Book Review with the support of the staff at LSU Special Collections, and with the journal having been handed off to me in such excellent shape by our previous edito....

Cwbr Author Interview: Aiming For Pensacola: Fugitive Slaves On The Atlantic And Southern Frontiers, Matthew J. Clavin

Civil War Book Review

Interview with Matthew J. Clavin, author of Aiming for Pensacola: Fugitive Slaves on the Atlantic and Southern Frontiers Interviewed by Tom Barber Civil War Book Review (CWBR): Today the Civil War Book Review is happy to speak with Matthew J. Clavin, associate professor of history at the U....

Cattle Colonialism: An Environmental History Of The Conquest Of California And Hawai'i, Andrew Sluyter

Faculty Publications

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For Liberty And The Republic: The American Citizen As Soldier, 1775-1861, Luke Hargroder

Civil War Book Review

Citizen-Soldiers and the Limits of Republicanism

Ricardo A. Herrera has endeavored to answer an important question about war and early American society: how did citizens value their military service? Herrera is Associate Professor of Advanced Military Studies at the U.S. Army Command and G....

The Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Campaign For American Indian Rights, 1864-1891, Janet M. Cramer

Civil War Book Review

Asserting Minority Rights through the Mainstream Press during Reconstruction

While the post-Civil War era saw countless, small, alternative publications emerge to serve the interests of marginalized populations, there are fewer examples of individuals and groups who successfully used the m....

Humane Insight: Looking At Images Of African American Suffering And Death, Mary Niall Mitchell

Civil War Book Review

Looking for Change: African American Suffering and the Power of Images

Courtney Baker’s book Humane Insight is a theoretical re-examination of the historical imagery of racial violence in the United States. Baker, an associate professor of English at Connecticut College, has chosen....

New Approaches To Gone With The Wind, Jennifer Dickey

Civil War Book Review

New Analyses of Gone with the Wind

One of the most popular American book and film combinations of all time, Gone with the Wind, is rarely taken seriously by scholars who are often quick to dismiss Margaret Mitchell’s book and David O. Selznick’s film as presenting a “simple a....

Daisy Turner's Kin: An African American Family Saga, Katherine Goerl

Civil War Book Review

Preserving a Rich Oral History of Slavery and Freedom

Daisy Turner was 100 years old when folklorist Jane C. Beck began interviewing her in 1983 — but first, Beck had to answer one question: “Are you a prejudiced woman?" For Daisy, an African American daughter of freed slaves who safeguar....

Hoedowns, Reels, And Frolics: Roots And Branches Of Southern Appalachian Dance, Richard Straw

Civil War Book Review

Cultures Intersect in Appalachian Traditions

With the publication of Phil Jamison’s Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics coming on the heels of Susan Spalding’s Appalachian Dance, (2014), the University of Illinois Press has filled a significant gap in our understanding of southern m....

Illustrated Dante’S Inferno, William Melancon

Honors Capstones

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Comparison Of Electrophysiological Auditory Measures In Fishes, Karen P. Maruska, Joseph A. Sisneros

Faculty Publications

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. Sounds provide fishes with important information used to mediate behaviors such as predator avoidance, prey detection, and social communication. How we measure auditory capabilities in fishes, therefore, has crucial implications for interpreting how individual species use acoustic information in their natural habitat. Recent analyses have highlighted differences between behavioral and electrophysiologically determined hearing thresholds, but less is known about how physiological measures at different auditory processing levels compare within a single species. Here we provide one of the first comparisons of auditory threshold curves determined by different recording methods in a single fish species, …

Impact Report, 2015-2016, Lsu Libraries

Libraries Impact Reports

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Supplanting The Saloon Evil And Other Loafing Habits: Utah’S Library-Gymnasium Movement, 1907-1912., Suzanne Marie Stauffer

Faculty Publications

In 1907, the Utah State Legislature created the Library-Gymnasium Commission; by 1909, 8 cities had approved a tax, with 18 others in the preliminary stages. The movement was intended to counteract delinquency among young unemployed males on the theory that they would be attracted to the gymnasium and eventually the library, where they would be influenced by the moral and socially improving materials found there. However, none of the cities ever built a structure to house both a library and gymnasium. The commission was abolished in 1911. Factors that played a role in the movement’s trajectory are the social construction …

Lsu General Catalog 2016-2017, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College

LSU General Catalog

The LSU General Catalog describes all undergraduate and graduate departments and programs with degree requirements and courses offered for each one. The LSU General Catalog includes information on registration and financial aid as well as academic services offered to all students.

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1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Moving Letters In Eighteenth-Century Epistolary Writing Arrivals And Departures, Hélène Dachez, Allan Ingram

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Motion In (Eighteenth-Century) Poetry, Bill Overton

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Kinetic Metaphors In Alexander Pope's The Rape Oe The Lock, Essay On Man, And The Dunciad, Michael Szczekalla

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Swift's Concept Of Physical Exercise: The Gravel Path To Human Perfection, Esther F. Sommer

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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