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Dark and Bloody Ground: The Battle of Mansfield and the Forgotten Civil War in Louisiana (2001) Campbell, Anne (2007). Louisiana: The History of an American State. Clairmont Press. ISBN 978-1567331356. Dew, Charles B. "Who Won the Secession Election in Louisiana?." Journal of Southern History (1970): 18–32. in JSTOR; Dew, Charles B.
Louisiana History (1960) 1#2 pp: 99-129. in JSTOR; Pierson, Michael D. Mutiny at Fort Jackson: The Untold Story of the Fall of New Orleans (Univ of North Carolina Press, 2008) Sledge, Christopher L. "The Union's Naval War in Louisiana, 1861-1863" (Army Command and General Staff College, 2006) online; Winters, John D. (1963). The Civil War in ...
Louisiana's 1868 Constitution abolished the Black Codes, granted full civil and political equality to freedmen, disenfranchised several classes of ex-Confederates, and included the state's first formal bill of rights. African Americans began to live as citizens with some measure of equality before the law.
John David Winters (December 23, 1916 – December 9, 1997) [1] was an American historian at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana.He is known for his monograph The Civil War in Louisiana, which was published in 1963, released in paperback in 1991, and is still in print. [2]
Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz (1695?–1775) [1] was a French ethnographer, historian, and naturalist who is best known for his Histoire de la Louisiane.It was first published in twelve installments from 1751 to 1753 in the Journal Economique, then completely in three volumes in Paris in 1758.
Outside of teaching, Dier is a writer. In 2017, Dier authored The 1868 St. Bernard Parish Massacre: Blood in the Cane Fields, by the History Press. The book details one of the deadliest massacres against African-Americans in Louisiana history.
Henry Clay Warmoth (May 9, 1842 – September 30, 1931) was an American attorney and veteran Civil War officer in the Union Army who was elected governor and state representative of Louisiana. A Republican, he was 26 years old when elected as 23rd Governor of Louisiana, one of the youngest
Founded in 1973, the Center for Louisiana Studies grew around the University's copies of the Louisiana Colonial Records Collection. Begun in 1967, the Collection attempts to draw together available microfilmed copies of any and all primary source records focused on the discovery, exploration, settlement, and development of the Mississippi Valley between 1682 and 1803.