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Ways And Means: Lincoln And His Cabinet And The Financing Of The Civil War, Frank J. Williams

Civil War Book Review

Roger Lowenstein explores how the Lincoln administration employed "economic innovations" to fund the Civil War, and manages to do so "in a clear and enjoyable manner avoiding what could potentially become a mind-numbing summary of financial data."

Animal Histories Of The Civil War, Darcy Ingram

Civil War Book Review

Earl J. Hess et al. teach readers about “camels imported in the South for transportation . . . pigs’ multifaceted relationship to wartime economics and politics . . . wildlife in varied forms and contexts” as well as “animals in contexts that might be considered broadly as entertainment," and fill "'a gaping hole in the Civil War literature concerning animals'" along the way.

James Montgomery: Abolitionist Warrior, John L.S. Daley

Civil War Book Review

Former journalist Robert C. Conner's James Montgomery: Abolitionist Warrior is, as reviewer John Daley notes, only the second full-length biography of Montgomery, the “least known or written about of those inconvenient heroes” who killed proslavery forces in prewar Kansas. “Conner’s stated mission in this more broadly focused work is to help the reader understand rather than forgive,” Daley writes. He concludes that, “In this [Conner] succeeds.”

The War After The War: A New History Of Reconstruction, Xiaxiao Li

Civil War Book Review

Historians have long focused on violence’s permeation of the postwar South. However, in The War After the War: A New History of Reconstruction, John Patrick Daly argues that the violence was so elemental to, so pervasive and organized in the postbellum South that it constituted a new war—a Southern Civil War. Reviewer Xiaoxiao Li writes that Daly’s “lively military history” reveals that White southerners waged a war of violent terror to control the former-Confederate states’ governments. Further, Daly finds resonances between the war after the war in the U.S. and the aftermath of other civil wars in world history.

Culture And Economics: A Literature Review, Faith Howard

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

What The Shell? The Zooarchaeology Of Cerro San Isidro, Peru, Monica Fenton

LSU Master's Theses

Zooarchaeologists have documented the importance of marine resources in the ancient Andes, and the first field season at Cerro San Isidro (Ancash, Peru) proves no different. The multi- component hilltop archaeological complex lies in the agriculturally rich Moro Pocket of the middle Nepeña Valley, at least an eight-hour walk from the ocean on the north-central coast. Between June and August 2019, members of the Proyecto de Investigación Arqueológica Cerro San Isidro carried out the first scientific excavations at this important ancient human settlement. Block excavations focused on a hypothesized elite compound, documenting intermittent occupations from the Late Formative (c. 600 …

And The Heat Goes On: Police Repression And The Modalities Of Power, Howard Liu, Christopher M. Sullivan

Faculty Publications

Among security institutions, police occupy a unique position. In addition to specializing in the repression of dissent, police monitor society and enforce order. Yet within research studying state repression, how police institutions are used and deployed to control domestic threats remain under-explored, particularly as it relates to the dual functionality just described. In this study, we develop and test an explanation of police repression accounting for the bifurcation of Mann’s two modalities of state power: infrastructural power and despotic power. Infrastructural power allocates police resources to surveil dissidents and preemptively limit dissent’s emergence or escalation. Police deploy despotic power through …

Mapping Plastic Pollution In The Amite Watershed, Louisiana, Gourav Divan

LSU Master's Theses

Microplastics have quickly emerged as a concerning pollutant in both freshwater and marine environments. Their recent discovery means that their impacts are still being studied, however, it is important to continuously monitor their concentrations. An important conduit of plastic pollution to marine environments are rivers and streams. Previous models have estimated the transport of plastics from land to sea in many parts of the world. Most of these models, however, have been conducted at coarse spatial resolutions that make it difficult to establish tractable management programs to minimize this impact. Here, a previously existing model was applied to model for …

Remembrance, Nhu Ngoc Quynh Dao

LSU Master's Theses

The artwork in the collection, “Remembrance,” is a collection of three-dimensional paper toys inspired by the culture of Dong Son civilization. The study was intended as an investigation into a mysterious, once-lost kingdom that flourished in the northern delta region of Vietnam. The designs and art motifs found on bronze artifacts from Dong Son have been scrutinized, then compared with stories in Vietnamese legends to decipher their hidden message and symbolism. I collected and translated the design motifs digitally as part of the creative process before analyzing their philosophies and intentions to not only introduce the culture but also accurately …

A Comprehensive Study On Printed Circuit Board Backdoor Coupling In High Intensity Radiated Fields Environments, Ryan Patrick Tortorich

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Due to the prevalence of unintentional electromagnetic interference (EMI) and the growth of intentional electromagnetic interference (IEMI) or high power microwave (HPM) sources, it is now more important than ever to understand how electronic systems are affected by high intensity radiated fields (HIRF) environments. Both historic events and experimental testing have demonstrated that HIRF environments are capable of disrupting and potentially damaging critical systems including but not limited to civil and military aircraft, industrial control systems (ICS), and internet of things (IoT) devices. However, there is limited understanding on the complex electromagnetic interactions that lead to such effects. This study …

All Things To All Men: Catholic Social Teaching In Reaction To Anti-Catholicism In Late Nineteenth-Century France And Germany, John Anderson Abbott Harris

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

The Martyrdom And Monster-Ization Of The Mujahideen In The American Christian Mind, Katelyn Prescott

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Human Rights As A Means To Peace: Why The Un Security Council Should Lead On Human Rights, Arden Hooper

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Sea-Level Rise And Settlement At Ta’Ab Nuk Na, Belize: Analyses Of Marine Sediment From The I-Line, 4m Transect, Conner B. Flynt

LSU Master's Theses

The ancient Maya of Mesoamerica created a culture with writing, religion, and vast trade networks. These trade networks are evident on the southern coast of Belize, where archaeologists have found sites dedicated to salt making. One of these sites, Ta’ab Nuk Na, was the subject of this thesis. Sediment and charcoal samples were collected from this site by the Underwater Maya Research Group led by Heather McKillop and E. Cory Sills. For my thesis research, I subjected these samples and components within them to loss-on ignition, radiometric dating, and microscopic analysis. Loss-on ignition was used to ascertain organic material percentage …

A Critical Examination Of Media Images Of The Civil Rights Movement And Their Role In Shaping Collective Memories Among Northern White Audiences, Martha Ramirez

LSU Master's Theses

Collective memory theory has been used to study a wide array of phenomena, including the media’s role in shaping collective memories of pivotal and influential events throughout society. Often when lacking direct contact and engagement, the media may shape the collective memories of audiences. As such, the current study examines prominent images presented in the media and the potential role each could have contributed to the collective memory of the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement. More specifically, this study analyzes how collective memories, which are arguably influenced by the mass media, create memories for audiences that lack direct engagement (e.g., participating …

Led-Based Optical Sensing Platforms For Multi-Analyte Detection, Youngho Shin

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Real-time monitoring of phytoplankton groups provides important information about aquatic ecological states, nutrient abundance, and water pollution. A rapid and accurate method for monitoring phytoplankton in water is commonly performed by detecting fluorescence emission from the plankton; however, commercially available portable fluorescence sensors are still expensive, bulky, and limited in functions, such as lacking the capability of selectively detecting multiple phytoplankton groups. In this regard, a low-cost and portable fluorometer platform for phytoplankton detection was developed in order to address the issues that current portable fluorometers have.

This dissertation has four main goals: (1) perform a study on fluorescence measurement …

Garden Of Ruins: Military Occupation And State Power In Civil War Louisiana, Johnathan Matthew Ward

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Using Civil War Louisiana as its focus, I argue that military occupation and expansive state power during the US Civil War served the primary mechanisms by which national states fought the war, stabilized order, and shaped a postwar nation. While many histories of the war separate frontline combat from the domestic home front and distinguish between the policy decisions of high politics and everyday decisions on the ground, this dissertation connects the political decisions of war to the daily acts of governance and resistance in occupied Louisiana. Union occupation officials and Confederate state authorities made contingent decisions throughout the war …

The Dna Cloud: Is It Alive?, Theodoros Bargiotas

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

In this analysis, I will firstly be presenting the current knowledge concerning the materiality of the internet based Cloud, which I will henceforth be referring to as simply the Cloud. For organisation purposes I have created two umbrella categories under which I place the ongoing research in the field. Scholars have been addressing the issue of Cloud materiality through broadly two prisms: sociological materiality and geopolitical materiality. The literature of course deals with the intricacies of the Cloud based on its present ferromagnetic storage functionality. However, developments in synthetic biology have caused private tech companies and University spin-offs to flirt …

Theoretical Analysis Of The Adsorption Of Phosphoric Acid And Model Phosphate Monoesters On Ceo2(111), Suman Bhasker-Ranganath, Chuanlin Zhao, Ye Xu

Faculty Publications

Ceria has been shown to catalyze the dephosphorylation of phosphate monoesters at ambient temperature. As a step toward understanding the reaction mechanism on ceria, first-principles density functional theory calculations in the GGA-PW91+U approach have been carried out to study the adsorption of phosphoric acid and two model phosphate monoesters, methyl phosphate and para-nitrophenyl phosphate, on CeO2(111). Consistent patterns are found in terms of energetic, structural, electronic, and vibrational properties upon adsorption. For the parent molecules, bonding of the phosphorous atom directly to a surface lattice oxygen atom (Olatt) is the only stable molecular adsorption state. Common entities that reduce Ce4+ …

Household War: How Americans Lived And Fought The Civil War, J. Matthew Gallman

Civil War Book Review

"This superb collection of essays builds on the central observation that the Civil War was 'a household war.' Households, Lisa Tendrich Frank and LeeAnn Whites explain, were both a “physical place and an ideological construct” that became 'the guiding principle behind many of the war’s causes as well as the impetus for wartime strategies.' In sum, the Civil War was 'a conflict rooted in, fought by, and waged against households.'"

Civil War Supply And Strategy: Feeding Men And Moving Armies, David Coffey

Civil War Book Review

In this "complex" yet "accessible volume," Earl J. Hess demonstrates that "in the Civil War mastering logistics and supply contributed significantly to the United States victory."

An Environmental History Of The Civil War, Matthew Stith

Civil War Book Review

In this"effort to rediscover and recast the war in the same natural prism through which the war’s original actors viewed and experienced it 160 years ago" Browning and Silver "give a level of agency to the natural environment as it pertained to humans and their actions" in the great conflagration.

Friendly Enemies: Soldier Fraternization Throughout The American Civil War, Andrew Turner

Civil War Book Review

Thompson demonstrates that "Fraternization of enemy soldiers was more than a simple affair during the Civil War. It was used by soldiers to exercise agency and display acts of humanity during trying war years. In meetings that were forms of resistance and self-preservation, white soldiers also excluded black soldiers from events that would be used for a white-washed and racially exclusive narrative of reconciliation in postwar years."

Civil War Treasures: The Siege Of Vicksburg From Without And Within, Hans Rasmussen

Civil War Book Review

Regarding two diaries in LSU's special collections, one maintained by a besieger and the other by a besieged within Vicksburg, Rasmussen writes that while “both diarists continued their entries for several more months, their complementary accounts of the siege of Vicksburg remain the most fruitful part of these invaluable resources for studying the campaign to capture the famous Confederate citadel on the Mississippi.”

Summer 2021, Jeffery Hardin Hobson

Civil War Book Review

Each of the featured books can be considered microhistories, as their subjects range in scope from institutional studies of army-wide special units, community studies of regiments, and biographies of important leaders and men representative of their time. With these microhistories, the authors featured in this slim issue demonstrate the vibrancy and dynamism of Civil War military history.

Yank And Rebel Rangers: Special Operatives In The American Civil War, Meg Groeling

Civil War Book Review

Black approaches his subjects “clearly and without prejudice” in chapters dedicated to specific operatives in both armies. Black’s examination of Union Army ranger C. Lorain Ruggles and President Lincoln’s antebellum service in Captain Elijah Isle’s company of Independent Rangers in the Black Hawk War are of special interest. In the end, Groeling recommends Black’s Yank and Rebel Rangers “to anyone interested in partisan warfare in general and Civil War partisans specifically.”

Impact Of Calorie Restriction On Energy Metabolism In Humans, Jasper Most, Leanne Maree Redman

Clinical Research Faculty Publications

Calorie restriction (CR) is the most potent, non-pharmacological intervention to support metabolic health. The effects of calorie restriction exceed weight loss. Consistent throughout many studies, calorie restriction induces a reduction in energy expenditure that is larger than the loss of metabolic mass, i.e. fat-free mass and fat mass, can explain. Per prevailing theories of mammalian aging, this disproportionate reduction in metabolic rate, defined as metabolic adaptation, reduces oxidative damage and thereby delays age-associated declines in physiological function. The aim of this narrative review is to investigate the origins of CR-induced metabolic adaptation. From a physiological standpoint this likely relates to …

Moche Juvenile Burial Patterns, Audrey J. Deluca

LSU Master's Theses

This thesis examines Moche juvenile burial patterns as documented in the published literature. Reports of cemeteries and other burial excavations were compiled in order to identify the position of children in Moche society as well as ideology surrounding children and childhood. The data collected spans six valleys and fourteen archaeological sites along the north coast of Peru. This investigation revealed 191 juvenile burials dating from A.D. 200 – 850. The variables documented for each burial include site, period, age, sex, burial position, orientation, burial encasing, and description of grave goods, as well as documenting adult individuals buried with juveniles. This …

Thiết Kế Cho Gia Tài Nông Nghiệp: Cho Khu Tôi Ở Nu Ô Linh Đông - Designing For A Living Agricultural Heritage: For My Vietnamese Neighborhood In New Orleans East, Nguyệt Nguyễn

LSU Master's Theses

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Versgggailles in New Orleans East is home to one of the densest populations of Vietnamese outside of Việt Nam. Following the Việt Nam War in 1975, thousands of refugees fled the country and several hundred were resettled in this neighborhood. Over time, community members rooted in a sense of home through tangible and intangible means in the landscape. Elders grow vegetables, herbs and fruit from Việt Nam in yards and vacant lots. Neighbors and and amenities are within walkable distance. The Catholic church is a focal community hub. Language and tradition are practiced at the family and the community …

The Voice Of Honor: Centering An Indigenous Ethic Of Protocol In U.S. Rhetorical Studies, Dakota Sandras

LSU Master's Theses

This project takes seriously the pressing rhetorical questions facing the field of communication studies which illuminate opportunity for radical disciplinary transformation and demand action beyond heightened racial and cultural awareness. In response, I seek to demonstrate that centering Indigenous epistemologies might inform and advance decolonial strategies for change. More specifically, I examine the theory and practice of First Nations customs of protocol and develop what I deem an ethic of protocol consisting of honor, humility, and action. After observing how these core tenets function synergistically in the protocol of elders, rites of passage, and entering another’s land, I argue that …