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Her writings for general audiences have appeared in local newspapers, as well as several compilations and anthologies including\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Storytelling Classroom: Applications Across the Curriculum\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e(2006) and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eKente Cloth: Southwest Voices of the African Diaspora\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e(1998).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eEvans has presented on Congo Square at schools, museums, and festivals and her essay “New Orleans’ Congo Square: A Cultural Landmark” will appear in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAncestors of Congo Square: African Art in the New Orleans Museum of Art\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e(2011). Her research on Congo Square has taken her to numerous archives, local and national, and back to West Africa. 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Hero and villain Jean Laffite deserves—and gets—a fresh look, and the authors reveal the last hidden decades of his complicated life. They also give us a history lesson about the times and places surrounding the unfolding drama. A fascinating read!”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e—Myrick Howard, president, Preservation North Carolina\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Oliphant and Yarbrough have taken their solid, scholarly, and thoroughly professional academic research and combined it with an eminently readable and compelling narrative. The reader will enjoy both the adventures of the mysterious later life of Jean Laffite and the authors’ own journey of research that leads to a surprising, yet convincing, climax.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e—State Senator W. Ted Alexander, North Carolina Senate District 44\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“As something of a Gallic shape-shifter myself, not to mention an inveterate scallywag, I found Oliphant and Yarbrough’s \u003cem\u003eJean Laffite Revealed\u003c\/em\u003e well-nigh impossible to put down (except, of course, for obligatory flourishes with my cutlass and the odd, lusty draught of rum).”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e—Bronson Pinchot, actor and voice artist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e “Reading like the best detective fiction and historical romance rolled into one, \u003cem\u003eJean\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eLaffite Revealed\u003c\/em\u003e is a lazy front-porch visit with old friends who have tales to tell. 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Beginning in the 1880s, Acadian leaders in Canada began a movement to reunite all of the Acadians in the world based upon a common language, religion, genealogy, and history. This book has three parts: first, the efforts at reunification to create an Acadian Nation (1880-1930); second, the pilgrimage to Grand-Pré as reported in Corinne's diary, with annotations (1930); and third, the Louisiana French Renaissance (1930-present).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis narrative aligns Corinne's personal experiences with the Great Depression, emerging women's rights, religion, prohibition, and other forces reshaping the modern world in between the two world wars. Her journal reveals how history can be gleaned from resources such as scrapbooks, newspapers, correspondence, and diaries. Although the diary and annotations are in English, half of the 46 newspaper articles and other items in the scrapbook materials are in French.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMary Broussard Perrin is a visual artist and former educator and gallery owner living in Lafayette, Louisiana. She is a mixed-media artist working in painting, photo montage, artist books, and performance art. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from University of Louisiana at Lafayette; and a Master of Visual Arts degree from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has work in the collections of the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, DC; the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, a branch the Smithsonian; and the Louisiana State Museum. She is co-author\/director of \u003cem\u003eAcadie Then and Now, A People's History\u003c\/em\u003e, 2015 winner of \u003cem\u003eLe Prix France-Acadie.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAttorny Warren A. Perrin is a skills professor at Loyola Law School and an adjunct professor at the University of Louisiana. He was named by five Louisiana governors to lead CODOFIL (1994-2010). In 1999, he was awarded the French National Order of merit, and the \u003cem\u003eUniversit\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eé Sainte-Anne\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e in Canada gave him an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree. He founded the Acadian Museum and has authored eight books, including A\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecadie Then and Now, A People's History\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, 2015 winner of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLe Prix France-Acadie. \u003c\/em\u003eIn 1990, he filed a petition seeking an apology for the Acadian Deportation from Queen Elizabeth II, resulting in the signing of the Royal Proclamation of 2003. From 1995 to 2010, he represented Louisiana at five World Francophone Summits. In 2007, he was inducted into the Louisiana Justice Hall of Fame. In 2018, Perrin was named as one of the University of Louisiana Outstanding Alumni.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eSeeking an Acadian Nation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\"As Dudley \"Coozan Dud\" Le Blanc's granddaughter, I know he was proud of Corinne Broussard who was on the First Official Louisiana Acadian Pilgrimage to Grand-Pré and whose diary offers to us an invaluable insider's view of 1930 America and Canada.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-M.M. LeBlanc, award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eEvangeline: Paradise Stolen, The Acadian Miracle 53rd Ann. Ed\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe True Story of the Acadians 93rd Ann. Ed.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Miss Broussard's diary, augmented by a scholarly preface, footnotes and photos, comes to life with her youthful outlook. She offers keen observations about a trip that would mark an important step in US-Canadian relations, as well as strengthen the ties among all Acadians torn apart 175 years ago by the Acadian Deportation.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-David Cheramie, Ph.D., Director of Vermilionville\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is a delightful account of a young Acadian girl embarking on the trip of a lifetime as a representative of Louisiana and of her people, the Cajuns.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-William Arceneaux, Ph.D., President of CODOFIL (Council for the Development of French in Louisiana)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"What a remarkable book of the Cajun Renaissance (1880-present) showing that Sen. 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Dobie and Leslie D. Schilling\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003eCentury of Scholarship\u003c\/em\u003e traces the growth and development of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette from a handful of teaching faculty in 1921 to a thriving body of three thousand students and nearly three hundred faculty and staff. While dealing with the Great Depression, World War II, the postwar explosion of enrollment, and the unrest of the 1960s, it has steadily expanded its offerings while cherishing the ideals of its founders. Through social changes and technological innovations, the college has adhered to the vision of Edwin Louis Stephens, the university’s first president, to educate young men and women “in the essential concepts of good citizenship and the fundamentals of the liberal arts, and to offer professional and vocational instruction that serves their aptitudes and desires.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eAnn B. Dobie \u003c\/span\u003eis professor emerita of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where she directed graduate studies in rhetoric and the university’s writing-across-the-curriculum program. She has also directed a summer institute at the University of Vermont and was a consultant to the Malta Writing Programme in Valletta, Malta. In 2002, she chaired the One City, One Book Program, “Lafayette Reads Ernest J. Gaines.” She is the author or co-author of fifteen books, compiler and editor of three literary anthologies, and the author of numerous articles on literature and composition. Her latest books are \u003cem\u003eBlack Women Writers of Louisiana: Telling their Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, and a fourth edition of \u003cem\u003eTheory into Practice: An Introduction to Literary Criticism\u003c\/em\u003e. For thirteen years she served as founder and director of the National Writing Project of Acadiana. She is currently a contributor to KnowLA, an online encyclopedia of Louisiana history and culture sponsored by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eLeslie D. Schilling \u003c\/span\u003eis the director of the Humanities Resource Center in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, which she opened in August 1993. Through the center, she manages audio-visual materials and assists faculty in the college with design and pre-press of various visual media. She has designed, edited, and formatted numerous faculty publications over three decades, including the \u003cem\u003eInterdisciplinary Humanities Journal\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eÉtudes Francophones\u003c\/em\u003e. She worked with Ann B. Dobie on pre-press for dozens of her scholarly publications, as well as publications for the Acadiana Writing Project. She is also co-principal investigator on a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities funding the Louisiana Digital Humanities Lab, which provides new media for faculty use and graduate classes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover | 100 Pages | 10\" x 12\" | ISBN: 978-1-946160-85–0\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UL Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39723531010128,"sku":"337","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0069\/8132\/0777\/products\/COLAcoverfull.jpg?v=1650663020"},{"product_id":"for-all-those-men-when-the-kkk-threatened-to-take-control-of-louisiana","title":"For All Those Men: When the KKK Threatened to Take Control of Louisiana","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor All Those Men: When the KKK Threatened to Take Control of Louisiana\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eby John Warner Smith\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cspan\u003e the summer of 1922, two tragic events occurred in Louisiana, one in the north, the other in the south. Together, the events dramatically changed the state’s racial and political climate. In the south, twenty-six-year-old Emile Hebert, an African American farmer, was indicted for murder and assault, in­cluding the injury of Lafayette Parish Sheriff Felix Latiolais. Two months later in the north, two white men, F. W. Daniel and Thomas Richards, mysteriously disappeared in the plantation village of Mer Rouge. The Ku Klux Klan stood at the center of both events, as did Louisiana Governor John M. Parker. History makes no note of Hebert’s ordeal. Here, the Hebert trial takes center stage.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Warner Smith is a former poet laureate of Louisiana (2019–2021). He has published five collections of poetry, most recently \u003cem\u003eOur Shut Eyes\u003c\/em\u003e (MadHat Press, 2021). Smith is a 2020 Poets Laureate Fellow of the Academy of American Poets and is the winner of the 2019 Linda Hodge Bromberg Literary Award. A Cave Canem Fellow, Smith earned his MFA in Creative Writing at the University of New Orleans.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eFor All Those Men\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The 1922 murder trial of Emile Hebert — a Black man accused of killing a prominent south Louisiana resident and wounding the sheriff of Lafayette Parish — is remarkable on many levels. It brought out the Louisiana National Guard and the Ku Klux Klan, and attracted wide attention in the press. Because the KKK threatened to lynch Hebert before the trial, then-Governor John Parker took an active interest in the case, hoping to weaken the Klan. Nothing, however, made this trial more remarkable than the stunning, surprise ending rendered by the all-male, all-white jury. In this novella, John Warner Smith masterfully brings Emile Hebert and his sensational trial to life.\"—Robert Mann, Manship Chair in Journalism, Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Courtrooms are theaters. Stage props move around.  Pathos yields to fury. Arguments are declaimed. John Warner Smith’s riveting drama of a young Black sugar farmer tried for murder while defending his young family from white assailants on the muddy backroads of 1920s South Louisiana possesses all these elements and more. It took some trawling through fragmentary court records, sketchy news accounts, and family memories to piece this story together. It also took something more:  creative imagination and a skilled pen.\"—Lawrence N. Powell, Ph.D., professor emeritus, Tulane University, and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Accidental City \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"John Warner Smith's novella \u003cem\u003eFor All Those Men\u003c\/em\u003e is a suspenseful historical docudrama worthy of a major motion picture and a must-read for Louisiana history buffs. Based on an actual criminal trial, the story portrays an important yet little-known event in race relations in South-Central Louisiana at the peak of the Jim Crow era.\"—Rick Swanson, Ph.D., J.D., Anthony Moroux\/BORSF Endowed Professor of Political Science, University of Louisiana at Lafayette\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e© 2022 University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback | 6\" x 9\" | ISBN: 9781946160904\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"UL Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39857315774544,"sku":"351","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0069\/8132\/0777\/products\/ForAllThoseMenfrontcoverforweb.jpg?v=1660667542"},{"product_id":"from-behind-the-mask-essays-on-south-louisiana-mardi-gras-runs","title":"From Behind the Mask: Essays on South Louisiana Mardi Gras Runs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Behind the Mask: Essays on South Louisiana Mardi Gras Runs\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eby Barry Jean Ancelet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 3\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom Behind the Mask\u003c\/em\u003e brings together essays written over a period of more than forty years, based on Barry Jean Ancelet’s observations and experiences. Ancelet explores critical elements of the traditional Mardi Gras runs of Cajun and Creole South Louisiana, including strategies for masking, costuming, begging, singing, playing, and moving through the countryside. He addresses historical issues, including the tradition’s roots in European and Afro-Caribbean festivals, as well as its contemporary dynamics and ongoing evolution, including local social, cultural and political issues involving class, identity, gender and race.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMardi Gras runs can seem at first glance to be wide-open public celebrations, but they are actually intimate expressions of community solidarity. Carnivalesque play is most effective when the players and their hosts would know each other except for the masks and costumes of the moment. Singing, dancing, intense begging, and verbal play create the improvised theater provided in exchange for contributions to the communal gathering and meal at the end of the day. Mardi Gras is an elaborate game designed to entertain and generate laughter, and because every game has its rules and masters, Mardi Gras \u003cem\u003ecapitaines\u003c\/em\u003e and their deputies ride herd on the revelers to keep play from devolving into chaos. The processional nature of this ritual enables it to move through what the participants think of as their little worlds, turning everything around them into temporary props and stages and drawing observers into their improvised farces, driven by a sense of deep play that tickles power with inversions of social structures and intense interaction from behind the masks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBarry Jean Ancelet is professor emeritus of Francophone Studies and Center for Louisiana Studies Research Fellow at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He has given papers, published numerous articles and several books, and produced concerts, festivals, records, museum exhibitions, documentary films, and television and radio programs on various aspects of Louisiana French language and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eFrom Behind the Mask\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the \u003cem\u003eAdvocate\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theadvocate.com\/baton_rouge\/entertainment_life\/ten-interesting-louisiana-books-of-2023\/article_069b5eb0-8b0b-11ee-95f9-a790d673ae8d.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTen Interesting Louisiana Books of 2023\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Some of this is tough, but it's all true. Barry saw us first from outside the circle, and then from inside the circle, singing and playing with us. Quite a few times, he didn't just see it. He felt it, too, lying face down \u003cem\u003etête à pieds\u003c\/em\u003e with his brothers getting whipped.\"—\u003cem\u003eCapitaine\u003c\/em\u003e Thomas Deshotels\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e “\u003cem\u003eFrom Behind the Mask \u003c\/em\u003eexplores Mardi Gras traditions of south Louisiana with the hallmarks of a Barry Jean Ancelet book—the scholarly precision and curiosity, magnified by the writer's eye for the ironies and beauty in people masking, running, ritual begging and flogging, identity-switching, music and dancing across a terrain of deep memory. This is cultural writing of the first rank.”—Jason Berry, \u003cem\u003eCity of a Million Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eFrom Behind the Mask\u003c\/em\u003e is the definitive and most entertaining telling of the complex and vibrant \u003cem\u003ecourir de Mardi Gras\u003c\/em\u003e to date.  Barry Ancelet is a brilliant folklorist and truly gifted storyteller who shares with the reader some of the most hilarious moments of festival play and then seamlessly propels us back into the deep meaning of Mardi Gras.”—Pat Mire, filmmaker \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Everyone has heard of New Orleans Mardi Gras, but few know much about Louisiana's other great Carnival tradition. Ancelet's narratives of masking play in Cajun and Creole countrysides will attract everyone who loves Carnival's zany performances. Richly colored photographs enhance this volume's appeal, while Carl Lindahl's introduction, describing Ancelet's lifelong cultural work in his homeland, shows that this man lives up to his main principle: A folklorist's observations are always best when informed by hearty participation in the very actions being studied.”—Samuel Kinser, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of History at Northern Illinois University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Barry Ancelet has given us a deep, wide narrative of experiences over nearly a half century at Cajun \u003cem\u003ecourir des Mardi Gras\u003c\/em\u003e throughout French south Louisiana. His account brings theoretical perspectives alongside the passionate insights of a French-speaking native. Barry does not shy from controversial aspects of the tradition in his complex discussion of black face masking—suggesting that cultural practice may struggle to adapt to new social awareness. 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Outlasting multiple national overlords, popular uprisings, the horrific Civil War, and fierce nightriders determined to continue the violence, this community is desperate for peace and a semblance of unity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReady’s life includes one bright spot, Mollie Stansbury, the most beautiful woman he has ever seen. From New Orleans to Mobile to Pensacola, the challenges of life in the post-Civil War Gulf South play out in dramatic fashion as Ready and Mollie confront a world of risk to find elusive peace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorical fact and fiction merge in Rebel Bayou to create an exciting story of hardship and hope certain to both entertain and educate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eS\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003eamuel \u003c\/span\u003eH\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003eyde \u003c\/span\u003eis Leon Ford Endowed Chair, professor of history, and director of the Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies at Southeastern Louisiana University. 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The fictional world they create comes to life and with as much truth as any nonfiction author might hope to achieve. Rebel Bayou tells a somber and human story about space and time in the throes of great change, uncertainty, and inhumanity.”—Bradley G. Bond, Northern Illinois University\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Samuel and Sarah Hyde have drawn on their deep well of historical knowledge to craft a novel—and a hero in Ready Wright—that is sure to fascinate, educate and entertain Civil War buffs in the South and beyond.”—Paige Bowers, journalist and author of \u003cem\u003eOvernight Code\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe General's Niece\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Rebel Bayou is a gripping novel of love and conflict during the Civil War and its aftermath written by two historians who live in Louisiana and specialize in patterns of rural violence and Antebellum culture. 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Poet Randy Gonzales explores the history of Louisiana’s nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Filipino communities and his family’s story of migration and assimilation through a blend of documentary and lyrical poetry. \u003cem\u003eSettling St. Malo\u003c\/em\u003e is a history of Filipino Louisiana in verse and an ode to the struggles of our immigrant ancestors, a collection of poems whose substance, language, and rhythms are informed by oral histories, diaries, letters, and government documents—poems infused with cultural and visual landscapes and driven by a poet’s desire to account for a lost heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA native New Orleanian of Filipino descent, Randy Gonzales is a poet, writer, and community historian who researches and shares the stories of Filipino Louisiana. 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These poems pushback and respond to the presumptions of the systems that lay claim to agency of identity and history even, but they are so much more. These poems echo writers and artists like Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Romare Bearden. 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Those various and sometimes-at-odds incarnations define Bendel’s extraordinary 123-year run under the iconic brown and white stripes first sketched by Henri, who himself said, “A designer, to be successful, must feel the trend of the times.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eHenri Bendel and the Worlds He Fashioned\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\"Allis does a fine job telling the story of this singular American, all the more impressive since he had so little to work with. . . . Luckily, as scant as the personal documents are, the advertisements and magazine features are plentiful, and the book is lavishly illustrated.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eLynn Yaeger, Vogue \u003c\/strong\u003e(Full review \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/henri-bendel-and-the-worlds-he-fashioned\" title=\"Vogue.com Review of Henri Bendel\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\"Allis’s thorough and beautifully illustrated account reveals both the qualities that made Bendel successful and the thrilling, volatile history of the industry in which he made his mark. Fashionistas will be delighted.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e(Read the full review \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/9781959569053\" title=\"Henri Bendel review in Publishers Weekly\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.) \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e[Allis's] comprehensive examination of Henri Bendel leaves no stone unturned. The book is filled with beautiful narratives and marvelous descriptions of Henri’s opulent life. Moreover, it bridges the enormous gap in twentieth-century American and French fashion history, providing a comprehensive understanding of Bendel’s influence and leaving the reader feeling knowledgeable about fashion history.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eMarilyn Kirschner, Look Online\u003c\/strong\u003e (Full review \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Full LookOnline Review of Henri Bendel\" href=\"https:\/\/lookonline.com\/book-review-henri-bendel-and-the-worlds-he-fashioned\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Chills! Tim Allis' intoxicating foray into the majestic life of fashion impresario Henri Bendel drips with glamorous escapism. I inhaled it.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—Simon Doonan\u003c\/strong\u003e, former creative director of Barney’s and author of T\u003cem\u003ehe CAMP 100: Glorious Flamboyance, from Louis XIV to Lil Nas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The unlikely, lively epic of how a gay, Jewish, small-town Southerner became Manhattan's reigning taste arbiter, Henri Bendel and the Worlds He Fashioned is a tour de force of scholarship. Allis offers up a treasury of fascinating new material that challenges received ideas about luxury consumption in America, then and now.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Amy Fine Collins\u003c\/strong\u003e, fashion historian, editor-at-large of \u003cem\u003eAir Mail\u003c\/em\u003e, and an owner of the International Best-Dressed List\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I’m so happy to have this book. In this time when history is being forgotten or worse, rewritten, it’s great to have a testament to the brilliance and quality that was Henri Bendel.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—Isaac Mizrahi\u003c\/strong\u003e, fashion designer and entertainer \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“This stylish and engrossing volume illuminates the life of Henri Bendel, one of the greatest retailers of the twentieth century. Allis has unearthed every last fascinating fact about this Louisiana-born aesthete who conquered New York in order to create a world of style for himself and his fortunate clients. Lavishly illustrated and designed, this book fills an enormous gap in twentieth-century American and French fashion history.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Caroline Rennolds Milbank\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of F\u003cem\u003eashion: A Timeline in Photographs, 1850 to Today\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eCouture: The Great Designers\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“A splendid biography of this son of Lafayette, Louisiana. Beautifully written, gorgeously illustrated, an absolute delight!”\u003cstrong\u003e—John Magill\u003c\/strong\u003e, New Orleans historian and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Incomparable Magazine Street\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“A sumptuous pleasure worthy of the tastemaker it memorializes.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Ruth Laney\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eCherie Quarters: The Place and the People That Inspired Ernest J. Gaines\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eHenri Bendel and the Worlds He Fashioned\u003c\/em\u003e is a revealing biography of an elusive retail pioneer who changed how Americans shop.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—Erika Harlitz Kern\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eForeword Reviews \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e(read the full review \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Henri Bendel review in Foreword Reviews\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forewordreviews.com\/reviews\/henri-bendel-and-the-worlds-he-fashioned\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Henri Bendel and the Worlds He Fashioned is a thorough yet breezy read, full of archival images and documents from the 20th century . . . The book itself is a beautiful object, which is good because Bendel wouldn't have had it any other way.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—Paul Sullivan, \u003cem\u003eThe Provincetown Independent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Allis' book, released this fall, fills [a] gap in fashion history.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—Phebe Wahl, \u003cem\u003eManhattan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eHenri Bendel\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eand the Worlds He Fashioned\u003c\/em\u003e featured in the following publications: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“11 Notable Fashion Books Out This Fall,” \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/17\/style\/fashion-books-iris-apfel-diane-keaton.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Three New Books Explore the American Fashion Industry,” \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/three-new-books-explore-the-american-fashion-industry\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVogue\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"The 60 Must-Read Books of Fall 2024,\" \u003ca title=\"Henri Bendel on Town \u0026amp; Country Must-Read List\" href=\"https:\/\/www.townandcountrymag.com\/leisure\/arts-and-culture\/g61837742\/best-books-fall-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTown \u0026amp; Country\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e“Parting Words,” \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/jwcmedia\/docs\/sr_sept_2024\/112\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eSheridan Road\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Behind the Stripes: The Henri Bendel Legacy,\" \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Quest magazine feature on Henri Bendel\" href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/questmag\/docs\/qt0924_issuu\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eQuest magazine\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e“Favorite Books for Fall 2024,” \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/passportmagazine.com\/passports-favorite-books-fall-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003ci\u003ePassport\u003c\/i\u003e magazine\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Literary Luxe,\" \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Society Texas mention of Henri Bendel\" href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/societytexas\/docs\/st_fall_2024_lo_singles\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSociety Texas\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e“Precious Cargo,\" \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/indulgemagazine.com\/2024\/09\/03\/precious-cargo-6\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndulge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTim Allis was a senior editor at \u003cem\u003eInStyle\u003c\/em\u003e for twelve years. Prior to that he was a staff writer at \u003cem\u003eD \u003c\/em\u003emagazine (Dallas) and \u003cem\u003ePeople\u003c\/em\u003e. He has contributed articles to \u003cem\u003eOut\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMen’s Health\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSaveur\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCNN.com\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePlaybill.com\u003c\/em\u003e, among others. A dedicated theater-goer, he periodically dabbles in playwriting. As Henri Bendel did, he calls both Lafayette, Louisiana, and New York City home.\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; color: #0070c0; letter-spacing: .55pt; background: white;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e©2024 University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover with dust jacket \u003cspan\u003e| 264 Pages | 7\" x 10\" | ISBN: 9781959569053\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UL Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40543789875280,"sku":"379","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0069\/8132\/0777\/files\/Bendel_final_front_cover_RGB_low_res_for_web_with_Stamp.jpg?v=1749582388"},{"product_id":"frenchie-the-story-of-the-french-speaking-cajuns-of-world-war-ii","title":"Frenchie: The Story of the French-Speaking Cajuns of World War II","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrenchie: The Story of the French-Speaking Cajuns of World War II\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eby Jason P. Theriot\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 3\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAs soon as American forces landed on the beaches of Normandy in June 1944, military commanders called for “Frenchies” to serve as interpreters with the local population. These young Cajun soldiers from Louisiana, like their Acadian ancestors, had grown up speaking French as their first language. In fact, Cajuns represented the largest group of French-speaking Americans in the military, and their linguistic abilities proved invaluable to operations around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIronically, this same generation experienced discrimination in a state-sanctioned English-only school system that sought to “Americanize” them. 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His expansive narrative on the firsthand experiences of the last surviving members of this group, as well as the spirit of hundreds of other French-speaking Cajun soldiers who died before them, is the most important account to date.”—Pat Mire, filmmaker, \u003cem\u003eMon Cher Camarade\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“June 6, 2024, marks the eightieth anniversary of the D-Day landings of World War II. 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