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The Civil War As Global Conflict: Transnational Meanings Of The American Civil War, Paul D. Escott

Civil War Book Review

Putting the Civil War in a Transnational Context

This diverse but useful volume had its origin in a conference held at the College of Charleston in 2011. Thanks to rather small print, the volume contains no fewer than twelve essays, plus an introduction by the editors and the text of a ro....

From Slavery To The Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor And Republican Liberty In The Nineteenth Century, Christopher Tomlins

Civil War Book Review

Dreaming of What Might Be

Not so long ago, republicanism – as ideology, as discourse, as political and social practice, as conceptual paradigm – was a staple of American history. “By 1990," according to Princeton’s Daniel Rodgers, republicanism had expanded far beyond the climes of revolu....

Battle Lines: A Graphic History Of The Civil War, Brannon Costello

Civil War Book Review

Visual Medium Brings Emotional Weight to the Traumas of War

The introduction to cartoonist Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and writer Ari Kellman’s Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War notes that over 65,000 books have been written about the Civil War. The authors mean for this sta....

The British Gentry, The Southern Planter, And The Northern Family Farmer: Agriculture And Sectional Antagonism In North America, Michael Frawley

Civil War Book Review

Farmer Vs. Farmer: A New Perspective on the Cause of the Civil War

Many different theories on why the Civil War took place have been put forward over the years. Slave State versus Free State, Industry versus Agriculture, Federal Power versus State Power, and other conflicts have been used....

African Canadians In Union Blue: Volunteering For The Cause In The Civil War, Greg Marquis

Civil War Book Review

African Canadians Fighting for American Freedom

At the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War, it is timely to review two recent studies of Canadian involvement with the conflict. These monographs play a dual role as contributions to both Civil War history and to the under-research....

My Brother's Keeper: African Canadians And The American Civil War, Greg Marquis

Civil War Book Review

African Canadians Fighting for American Freedom

At the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War, it is timely to review two recent studies of Canadian involvement with the conflict. These monographs play a dual role as contributions to both Civil War history and to the under-research....

African Fire Cultures, Cattle Ranching, And Colonial Landscape Transformations In The Neotropics, Andrew Sluyter, Chris Duvall

Faculty Publications

Fire regimes emerge partly from human activities that reflect cultural-ecological knowledge of the relationships among fire, vegetation, grazing, climate, and other variables, as well as social relations. More knowledge of such “fire cultures,” past and present, therefore remains necessary to better understand the causes and persistent consequences of landscape burning. In the neotropics, people have used fire for centuries to manage livestock pastures. Conventional wisdom has long posited that such practices derived solely from antecedent European and indigenous, Native American fire cultures. Analysis of accounts of rangeland burning from throughout the neotropics during colonial times, however, demonstrates that ranchers incorporated …

Civil War Treasures: Lsu's Lincoln Lexicon, Michael Taylor

Civil War Book Review

Few have ever mastered the English language like Abraham Lincoln. From his days as a young, backwoods bibliophile to one of history’s most expressive writers, Lincoln’s love of language helps us understand not only the man, but all that he represents. How did Lincoln acquire his remarkable way....

By The Red Glare: A Novel, David Madden

Civil War Book Review

A Fictional Mosaic of a City in Sherman’s Path

John Mark Sibley-Jones begins By the Red Glarewith such startling images, both literally and symbolically powerful, that quoting a passage will serve to suggest a narrative unique in Civil War novels:

The tree to whic....

Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles In The Antebellum City, Sarah Schuetze

Civil War Book Review

Taming the Unruly Results of Antebellum Urban Growth in America’s Largest City

An opening scene in a chapter of Catherine McNeur’s Taming Manhattan depicts a Manhattan resident venturing out for a walk. His efforts were spoiled by “cavorting hogs," unbearable smells, filthy streets....

Louisiana Survey 2015, Lsu Reilly Center For Media & Public Affairs

Reilly Center Louisiana Surveys

The 2015 Louisiana Survey is the fourteenth in an annual series conducted by Louisiana State University’s Public Policy Research Lab (PPRL). Special topics covered by the 2015 LA Survey include:

• measures of public attitudes about current issues such as tax incentives for attracting businesses
• the Common Core State Standards
• cost control measures for the Taylor Opportunity Program for Students (TOPS)
• Medicaid expansion under the federal Affordable Care Act
• race relations and law enforcement
• same-sex marriage
• legalization and decriminalization of marijuana.

Preserving Photon Qubits In An Unknown Quantum State With Knill Dynamical Decoupling: Towards An All Optical Quantum Memory, Manish K. Gupta, Erik J. Navarro, Todd A. Moulder, Jason D. Mueller, Ashkan Balouchi, Katherine L. Brown, Hwang Lee, Jonathan P. Dowling

Faculty Publications

The implementation of polarization-based quantum communication is limited by signal loss and decoherence caused by the birefringence of a single-mode fiber. We investigate the Knill dynamical decoupling scheme, implemented using half-wave plates, to minimize decoherence and show that a fidelity greater than 99% can be achieved in absence of rotation error and fidelity greater than 96% can be achieved in presence of rotation error. Such a scheme can be used to preserve any quantum state with high fidelity and has potential application for constructing all optical quantum delay line, quantum memory, and quantum repeater.

Confirming The Multidimensionality Of Psychologically Controlling Parenting Among Chinese-American Mothers: Love Withdrawal, Guilt Induction, And Shaming, Jing Yu, Charissa S.L. Cheah, Craig H. Hart, Shuyan Sun, Joseph A. Olsen

Faculty Publications

© The Author(s) 2014. Despite the theoretical conceptualization of parental psychological control as a multidimensional construct, the majority of previous studies have examined psychological control as a unidimensional scale. Moreover, the conceptualization of shaming and its associations with love withdrawal and guilt induction are unclear. The current study aimed to fill these gaps by evaluating the latent factor structure underlying 18 items from Olsen et al. (2002) that were conceptually relevant to love withdrawal, guilt induction, and shaming practices in a sample of 169 mothers of Chinese-American preschoolers. A multidimensional three-factor model and bi-factor model were specified based on our …

Cumulative Systolic Bp And Changes In Urine Albuminto-Creatinine Ratios In Nondiabetic Participants Of The Multi-Ethnic Study Of Atherosclerosis, Paul Zemaitis, Kiang Liu, David R. Jacobs, Mary Cushman, Ramon Durazo-Arvizu, David Shoham, Walter Palmas, Richard Cooper, Holly Kramer

Faculty Publications

Background and objectives Cumulative exposure to elevated systolic BP (cumSBP) may affect progression of urine albumin excretion in the absence of diabetes. The objective of this study was to examine the association between cumSBP exposure and progression of spot urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio (UACR) in a multi-ethnic cohort of adults without diabetes. Design, setting, participants,&measurements The analysis included 3789 participants without severely increased urine albumin excretion or diabetes in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, a cohort of 6814 adults aged 45– 84 years. UACR was measured at baseline and approximately 1.6, 3.1, and 9.4 years after the baseline examination. cumSBP was …

Lsu General Catalog 2015-2016, 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.

William Wells Brown: An African American Life, Jack Trammell

Civil War Book Review

The Multiple Identities of William Wells Brown

Ezra Greenspan, who is the Edmund J. and Louis W. Kahn Professor of English at Southern Methodist University, and editor of William Wells Brown: A Reader, may in fact know William Wells Brown as well as anyone can one hundred and thirty....

Gumbo Yearbook, Class Of 2015, 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.

Lincoln And The Power Of The Press: The War For Public Opinion, Rea Andrew Redd

Civil War Book Review

The Press and the President

Lincoln and The Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion is a detailed story of the process of journalism and the cult of personality of editors and owners. For a politician who declared that public sentiment is everything, Lincoln recognized that, ....

Manual For Ageing And Sexing Birds Of Bosque Fray Jorge National Park And Northcentral Chile, With Notes On Range And Breeding Seasonality, Peter Pyle, Andrew Engilis, Douglas A. Kelt

Special Publications of the Museum of Natural Science

Bosque Fray Jorge National Park (hereafter "Fray Jorge") comprises 9,959 ha on the coast of Chile’s Region IV (Coquimbo), approximately 400 km north of Santiago and 100 km south of La Serena (30°41’S, 71°40’W) (Fig. 1). It is a Biosphere Reserve and has been protected from grazing and disturbance since 1941 (Squeo et al. 2004). As such, it is a biotic oasis surrounded by agricultural and increasingly disturbed terrain (Bahre 1979). The climate is Mediterranean, with ca. 130 mm of annual precipitation measured since 1989 at an on-site meteorological station, 90% falling in winter (May-Sept). Summers are warm and dry, …

Archiving The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer, James E. May

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

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

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Birthing The Poet Elizabeth Singer Rowe And The Athenian Mercury, Heidi Laudien

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

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Fighting Fire With Fire Anti-Methodist Exaggeration In Samuel Foote And William Hogarth, Brett C. Mcinelly

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

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Satanic Devotions The Prayers Of Robert Lovelace In Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, Juliette Paul

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

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Sustaining The Eighteenth Century?, Samara Anne Cahill

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

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Fugitive Allusions In Boswell In Search Of A Wife, Or The Charming Mr. Boswell, Robert G. Walker

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

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Akenside's Hymn To The Naiads And The Turn From The Ode, John Knapp

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

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The Unending Dunciad Pope's Weird Revenge, Cedric D. Reverand Ii

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

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Three Bibliopoles, J. T. Scanlan

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

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The Arabian Nights And The Oriental Tale Sustainable Enlightenment Texts, Malcolm Jack

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

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