Louisiana

Acadian to Cajun: Transformation of a People, 1803-1877

Accordion Dreams : A Journey into Cajun and Creole Music

Angola to Zydeco: Louisiana Lives

Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press

Building Louisiana: The Legacy of the Public Works Administration

Cajun and Creole Folktales Collected and Annotated

Cajun and Creole Music Makers: Musiciens cadiens et créoles

Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California: Modern Pleasures in a Postmodern World

Cajun Country

Cajun Foodways

Cajun Mardi Gras Masks

Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors: A Young Reader's History

The Cajuns: Americanization of a People

Canoeing Louisiana

Carville: Remembering Leprosy in America

Chita: A Memory of Last Island

Christmas Stories from Louisiana

Clarence John Laughlin: Prophet without Honor

Confronting Modernity: Art and Society in Louisiana

Conversations with Ernest Gaines

Conversations with Richard Ford

Conversations with Tennessee Williams

Covering for the Bosses: Labor and the Southern Press

The Crab Lover's Book: Recipes & More

The Crawfish Book

Creole Trombone: Kid Ory and the Early Years of Jazz

Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country

Culture after the Hurricanes: Rhetoric and Reinvention on the Gulf Coast

Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities

Down on the Batture

Falling Through Space: The Journals of Ellen Gilchrist

Faulkner: A Biography

Fortune's Favorite Child: The Uneasy Life of Walter Anderson

French Quarter Manual: An Architectural Guide

The French Quarter of New Orleans

The Garden District of New Orleans

The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak: A New Orleans Family Memoir

Haitian Vodou Flags

Haunted Places in the American South

In the Southern Wild Photographs

Inventing New Orleans: Writings of Lafcadio Hearn

It Happened by Design: The Life and Work of Arthur Q. Davis

Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist

The Lakes of Pontchartrain: Their History and Environments

Last Barriers: Photographs of Wilderness in the Gulf Islands National Seashore

Leander Perez: Boss of the Delta

Lords of Misrule: Mardi Gras and the Politics of Race in New Orleans

Losing Ground: Identity and Land Loss in Coastal Louisiana

Lost Plantation: The Rise and Fall of Seven Oaks

Louisiana

Louisiana Cookery

Louisiana Dayride: Fifty-two Short Trips from New Orleans

Louisiana Fiddlers

Louisiana Governors: Rulers, Rascals, and Reformers

Louisiana Governors: Rulers, Rascals, and Reformers

Louisiana Rambles: Exploring America's Cajun and Creole Heartland

Louisiana Voyages: The Travel Writings of Catharine Cole

Madame Vieux Carré: The French Quarter in the Twentieth Century

Magnificent, Marvelous Martelé: American Art Nouveau Silver

Missing New Orleans

The Natchez Indians: A History to 1735

New Orleans Cuisine: Fourteen Signature Dishes and Their Histories

The New Orleans Garden: Gardening in the Gulf South

New Orleans Sketches

Perilous Place, Powerful Storms: Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana

Red Stick Men: Stories

The Rise of David Duke

Sacred Light: Holy Places in Louisiana

Saving Louisiana? The Battle for Coastal Wetlands

A Season of Night: New Orleans Life after Katrina

Secrets of a New Orleans Chef: Recipes from Tom Cowman's Cookbook

Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture

Shadows and Cypress: Southern Ghost Stories

Sharks, Skates, and Rays of the Gulf of Mexico: A Field Guide

Shreveport Sounds in Black and White

Skin Deep

The South and the Caribbean

Southern Cooking to Remember

Southern Shade: A Plant Selection Guide

Southern Sun: A Plant Selection Guide

The Spirit of Black Hawk: A Mystery of Africans and Indians

Squint: My Journey with Leprosy

Still Following Percy

Stories from the Haunted South

Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues

Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana

TABASCO®: An Illustrated History

Tennessee Williams and the South

Terra Incognita: Photographs of America's Third Coast

Terra Incognita: Photographs of America's Third Coast

Tough-as-Nails: Flowers for the South

A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz

Trumpet Records: Diamonds on Farish Street

A Unique Slant of Light: The Bicentennial History of Art in Louisiana

Unveiling Kate Chopin

Vodou Things: The Art of Pierrot Barra and Marie Cassaise

Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau

Waking Up to War: The Shock of Pearl Harbor

Working the Field: Accounts from French Louisiana

The Writing Life

You Are Where You Eat: Stories and Recipes from the Neighborhoods of New Orleans

Zydeco!

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On the Horizon: Scotty and Elvis

When Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillips’s Memphis-based Sun Records studio, he was a shy teenager in search of a sound. Phillips invited a local guitarist named Scotty Moore to stand in. Scotty listened carefully to the young singer and immediately realized that Elvis had something special.  Along with bass player Bill Black, the trio recorded an old blues number called “That’s All

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