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Born into poverty in Mississippi at the close of the nineteenth century, Charley Patton and Jimmie Rodgers established themselves among the most influential musicians of their era. In Tune tells the story of the parallel careers of these two pioneering recording artists -- one white, one black -- who moved beyond their humble origins to change the face of American music. At a time when segregation formed impassable lines of demarcation in most areas of southern life, music transcended racial boundaries. Jimmie Rodgers and Charley Patton drew inspiration from musical traditions on both sides of the racial divide, and their songs about hard lives, raising hell, and the hope of better days ahead spoke to white and black audiences alike. Their music reflected the era in which they lived but evoked a range of timeless human emotions. As the invention of the phonograph disseminated traditional forms of music to a wider audience, Jimmie Rodgers gained fame as the "Father of Country Music," while Patton's work eventually earned him the title "King of the Delta Blues." Patton and Rodgers both died young, leaving behind a relatively small number of recordings. Though neither remains well known to mainstream audiences, the impact of their contributions echoes in the songs of today. The first book to compare the careers of these two musicians, In Tune is a vital addition to the history of American music.

"No Louisiana leader has been more closely associated with Louisiana State University than Governor and U.S. Senator Huey P. Long, who devoted the last five years of his life to turning the small, undistinguished state school into an academic and football powerhouse. From the time he declared himself the 'official thief' for LSU in 1930 to his death in September 1935, the school's budget flourished, its physical plant burgeoned, its faculty grew in numbers and reputation, and its student body tripled. During this time, no university in the South experienced more growth in size and stature than LSU--and Long's enthusiasm for the school was behind almost every aspect of it. In addition to improving LSU's academic reputation, Long also believed its future and its national visibility were tied to the success of the school's football team and its band. Not an avid football fan before 1930, Long took an intense interest in the LSU Tigers. He attended home games and many out-of-town games. He gave pre-game and halftime pep talks to players. He devised plays and stalked the sidelines during games. He poured money into a larger, flashier band, supervised the hiring of two band directors and, with the second one, wrote a new fight song, 'Touchdown for LSU,' still played today. During Long's time as governor, the school's president--who later went to prison for misusing university funds--answered to Long as much as to the LSU Board of Supervisors. While he rarely meddled in academic affairs of the university, Long did insist that no faculty member criticize him publicly. When students or faculty from 'his school' opposed him, retribution was swift. Kingfish U is the story of Huey Long's intense and active involvement with LSU from 1928 through 1935. It also chronicles Long's lingering legacy at LSU, including the school's hyper-politicized governance and the importance of football to the school's political capital and public standing"

"The Absinthe Frappâe is a journey through the history of absinthe, its origins, and its influences, culminating in the story of the iconic New Orleans cocktail, the absinthe frappâe. This book begins with the history of absinthe and explores the fascination with the liquor in the nineteenth century, sharing the stories of artists who were influenced by absinthe and how this liquor became a regular part of nineteenth-century life (particularly in France). From there, The Absinthe Frappâe crosses an ocean to tell the story of absinthe in New Orleans. Because of New Orleans's relationship with and loyalty to France, it's no surprise that the drink had a foothold on the citizens here! Songy reveals how the Absinthe Frappâe was invented and tells delves into the origins and history of the drink's first home, the Old Absinthe House in New Orleans. The book explores the ban of absinthe in the United States and Europe, the reasons for the ban, and the reasons that it was unjust, examining New Orleans's response to the absinthe ban and to Prohibition more broadly. Finally, Songy discusses the lifting of the absinthe ban in 2007, a change largely spearheaded by New Orleans scientist Theodore Breaux"--

"A Brief Moment in the Sun is the first scholarly biography of Francis Lewis Cardozo, one of the most talented and influential African Americans to hold elected office in the South between Reconstruction and the civil rights era. Born to a formerly enslaved African American mother and white Jewish father in antebellum South Carolina, Cardozo led a life of extraordinary achievement as a pioneering educator, politician, and government official. However, today he is largely unknown in South Carolina and among students of nineteenth-century American history. Immediately after the Civil War, Cardozo succeeded in creating and leading a successful school for formerly enslaved children in the face of widespread racial hostility. Between 1868 and 1877, voters elected him secretary of state and state treasurer. In the Republican administrations that controlled the state during Reconstruction, Cardozo was a famously honest officeholder when many of his colleagues were notoriously corrupt. He played a major part in securing a viable educational system for Black and white children and land reform for thousands of landless families. Cardozo proved that Black men could govern at least as well as white. As a result, he became the target of white supremacist Democratic politicians after they reclaimed power through a campaign of violence and intimidation. They prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned Cardozo on a fabricated fraud charge. Pardoned in 1879, Cardozo moved to Washington DC, where he led an even more successful school for African American children. Neil Kinghan's Brief Moment in the Sun is the first complete historical analysis of Francis Cardozo and his contribution to Reconstruction and African American history. It draws on original research on Cardozo's early life and education in Scotland and England and pulls together for the first time the extant sources on his experiences in South Carolina and Washington, DC. Kinghan reveals all that Cardozo achieved as a Black educator and political leader and explores what else he might have realized if white racism and violence had not ended his efforts in South Carolina. Above all, Kinghan shows that Francis Cardozo deserves a place of honor and distinction in the history of nineteenth-century America"--

When Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina savagely caned Senator Charles Sumner Massachusetts on the floor of the U.S. Senate on May 21, 1856, southerners viewed the attack as a triumphant affirmation of southern chivalry, northerners as a confirmation of southern barbarity. Public opinion was similarly divided nearly three-and-a-half years later after abolitionist John Brown's raid on the Federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, with northerners crowning John Brown as a martyr to the cause of freedom as southerners excoriated him as a consciousness fanatic. These events opened American minds to the possibility that North and South might be incompatible societies, but some of Dixie's defenders were willing to go one step further--to propose that northerners and southerners represented not just a "divided people" but two scientifically distinct races. In Normans and Saxons, Ritchie Watson, Jr., explores the complex racial mythology created by the upper classes of the antebellum South in the wake of these divisive events to justify secession and, eventually, the Civil War. This mythology cast southerners as descendants of the Normans of eleventh-century England and thus also of the Cavaliers of the seventeenth century, some of whom had come to the New World and populated the southern colonies. These Normans were opposed, in mythic terms, by Saxons--Englishmen of German descent--some of whose descendants made up the Puritans who settled New England and later fanned out to populate the rest of the North. The myth drew on nineteenth-century science and other sources to portray these as two separate, warring "races," the aristocratic and dashing Normans versus the common and venal Saxons. According to Watson, southern polemical writers employed this racial mythology as a justification of slavery, countering the northern argument that the South's peculiar institution had combined with its Norman racial composition to produce an arrogant and brutal land of oligarchs with a second-rate culture. Watson finds evidence for this argument in both prose and poetry, from the literary influence of Sir Walter Scott, De Bow's Review, and other antebellum southern magazines, to fiction by George Tucker, John Pendleton Kennedy, and William Alexander Caruthers and northern and southern poetry during the Civil War, especially in the works of Walt Whitman. Watson also traces the continuing impact of the Norman versus Saxon myth in "Lost Cause" thought and how the myth has affected ideas about southern sectionalism of today. Normans and Saxons provides a thorough analysis of the ways in which myth ultimately helped to convince Americans that regional differences over the issue of slavery were manifestations of deeper and more profound differences in racial temperament--differences that made civil war inevitable.

"Draining New Orleans is the first full-length book entirely devoted to one of the world's most challenging drainage problems: the reclamation and drainage of a fluvial delta for the development of the City of New Orleans. Renowned Crescent City geographer and historian Richard Campanella introduces readers to the epic challenges and ingenious efforts to dewater New Orleans. With forays into geography, public health, engineering, architecture, politics, sociology, race relations, and disaster response, he recovers the herculean effort to 'reclaim' the city's swamps and marshes and install subsurface drainage for urbanization. This is not a story about mud; rather, it is a history of people, power, and the making of place. Campanella emphasizes the role of empowered, colorful individuals who spearheaded efforts to separate water from dirt and create value in the process not only for the community, but also for themselves. Campanella opens with a festive scene on Mardi Gras weekend 1915, in which an elaborate parade for 'the Drainage King'--a local hero by the serendipitous name of George Hero--brought an elite entourage to the edge of the Barataria swamp to witness the activation of gigantic pumps, via a telephonic connection to President Woodrow Wilson in the White House. What transpired in the years and decades ahead can only be understood by going back two centuries-to the geological formation and indigenous occupation of this delta and continuing through the colonial, antebellum, postbellum, and Progressive eras to modern times. The consequences of the dewatering of New Orleans are both triumphant and tragic. The city's engineering prowess made it a world leader in drainage technology, yet also a vulnerable victim of its own success. And by no means is the story over, for amid the uncertainty wrought by soil subsidence, coastal erosion, and climate change, the next generation of drainage experts are striving to improve on the past by doing something utterly inconceivable to their predecessors: rewatering New Orleans"--

"The Vieux Carrâe views the story of the Vieux Carrâe cocktail against the evolving backdrop of the city's ever-rich cocktail culture. The Vieux Carrâe was an original cocktail created by mixologist Walter Bergeron at the Monteleone Hotel in the 1930s-sometimes known as "the Cocktail that Spins," in honor of the slowly turning Carousel Bar at the Monteleone. It's an iconic cocktail, considered historically important by cocktail masters by Dale DeGroff, that's rarely ordered or prepared in modern times-though that is changing as a new generation of cocktail enthusiasts rediscover the old ways. This cocktail draws on the local proto-cocktail called the Sazerac, as well as several booze-forward classics like the Manhattan, the Old-Fashioned, and, from Italy, the Negroni. The Vieux Carrâe tells the story of Walter Bergeron's early life, his encounters with prominent Louisiana figures ranging from Henry Ramos (inventor of the Ramos gin fizz) to Governor Huey K. Long, and the ways he incorporated the story of New Orleans into his iconic drink. The book also examines the ingredients in this cocktail and how each of them made its way to the Crescent City"--

"It was the human, the personal side of medicine that left upon me its lasting impressions." Charles S Norburn (1890-1990), a surgeon and general practitioner who founded his own hospital, vividly retells his most memorable experiences from a long career in The Cry in the Night. These works tell the story of medicine in the first half of the 20th century. It was an era without many specializations and a surgeon did all surgeries from minor setting of broken limbs, to brain surgery. A doctor's relationship with his patients was very different and more personal than it is today, Norburn shares his patients joys and their heartbreaks as well as his own philosophy in this captivating book. These dramas range in their themes and details, but don't shy away from the sometimes stark reality, often gratifying true life of a doctor. The plots vary: a young sailor who drowned in WWI; the doctor's discomfort with a mistaken identity; the wonders of life from a doctor's viewpoint; the death of a young man his first day of work; patients caught in the vicissitudes of fate, and many others. In addition, a fictional story in the style of Poe, The Girl with the Yellow Hair has been included. As a young man, upon finishing medical school, he addresses attitudes toward death in that era. He did not think it belonged with the other works but this wonderful story has been included by the editor to complete his works.During his long career, he achieved many things:"Dr. Charles S Norburn's achievements in order to serve his country have been of a rather remarkable nature" The Sunday Citizen, October 14, 1917"Dr. Norburn chosen by the government...for specialization on surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Mn" The Asheville Citizen, December 29, 1919"NORBURN SURGEON TO PRES. HARDING" The Associated Press, Front Page, The Herald Sun Durham, N.C. May 29, 1923"Dr. C.S. Norburn Named Surgeon to the President: Asheville Man Surgeon to Harding for the Alaskan Trip" Front Page, The Asheville Citizen, May 29, 1923"The nomination of Dr. Norburn for this important post was many by the surgeon-general of the Navy." The Bee, June 1, 1923"The honors Dr. Charles Norburn has won in the service of his country as a surgeon in the Navy, are matters of pride to the people of Asheville and Buncombe County." Asheville Citizen, October 9, 1923"Dr. Norburn "Surgeon of Renown" Hattie McKay, Medical Librarian, letter to Asheville"You have rendered a great public service." Congressman Wright Patman, Chairman of the House Banking & Currency Committee, review of A New Monetary System in 1972

The events at Appomattox Court House in Virginia on April 9, 1865 have long been considered the end of the Civil War. However, there were still Confederate armies in the field. Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, commander of the Union armies operating in North Carolina, still faced a 31,000 man Confederate army commanded by Gen. Joseph E. Johnston.

Ni hao, y'all! Welcome to the dining table, a special, sacred place. Egg Rolls & Sweet Tea: Asian Inspired, Southern Style is in part a memoir of Natalie Keng's personal food journey growing up in the deep South, but make no mistake: This is a cookbook full of tasty Asian-American and Southern fusion dishes, sauces, and drinks that home cooks will enjoy preparing and sharing.

Anyone interested in judicial history will be pleased to learn of anew book by Judge Jim Spears. Justice Divided, which pertains to thecircuit judges of Sebastian County, takes its title from the county havingtwo courthouses--one in Greenwood and another in Fort Smith. This is not adry tome on legal minutia, rather it is the briskly written story of howlawyers and judges on the Arkansas border attempted to dispense justice.Tom Dillard, Arkansas historian and newspaper columnist

School, mysteries, crime-solving - just an ordinary day for Ali Cross!Ali has helped to solve two big cases and he knows he has what it takes to follow in the footsteps of his famous father, Alex Cross.Eager to keep solving crimes, Ali and his friends hack into police calls and secretly check out crime scenes to crack the cases themselves.But when Ali witnesses something terrible, he must grapple with some tough questions about what it means to be a detective, and a detective's son.Will Ali be the one in danger this time?____________________________Praise for the Ali Cross series'The prolific king of the beach read is back with an intergenrational mystery for the 9-to-12-year-old set' Kirkus'This is a fresh look at the world of James Patterson's most famous protagonist' School Library Journal'This one will fly off the shelves' Booklist

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