Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Louisiana Municipal Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Louisiana during World War II
Author: Jerry Purvis SansonPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807173479
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
While the impact of World War II on America and other countries has been exhaustively chronicled, few historians have investigated the experiences of individual states during the tumultuous war years. In his study of Louisiana’s home front from 1939 to 1945, Jerry Purvis Sanson examines changes in politics, education, agriculture, industry, and society that forever altered the Pelican State. The war era was a particularly important time in Louisiana’s colorful political history. The gubernatorial victories of prominent anti–Huey Long candidates Sam Jones in 1940 and Jimmie Davis in 1944 reflected shifting sentiments toward politicians and heralded a changing of the guard in the statehouse. This created a system of active dual-faction politics that continued for the next decade. The war also transformed the state’s economy: agricultural mechanization accelerated to compensate for labor shortages, and industries increased production to meet military demands. Louisiana’s educational system modified its curriculum in response to the war, providing technical training and sponsoring scrap-metal collections and war-stamp sales drives. Sanson explores the war’s effect on the everyday lives of Louisianians, showing how their actions at home provided them with a sense of personal participation in the titanic effort against the Axis powers. He also points out that, while many found their lives limited by war, two groups—African Americans and women— experienced increased opportunities as they moved from low-paying jobs to more lucrative positions vacated by white males who had departed for the service. Now condensed for easy and efficient access, Sanson’s historical account provides a wide-ranging yet intimate look at how the war was brought home to the people of the Bayou State.
The American Monthly Review of Reviews
Author: Albert ShawThe American Monthly Review of Reviews
Author: Talk of the Town
Author: Fredrick Marcel SpletstoserPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807129340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
As the sleepy courthouse town of Alexandria, Louisiana, began to recover from the devastation and trauma of the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Daily Town Talk appeared. Nicknamed Alexandria's postage stamp paper by a rival publication, the Town Talk aimed to be the best daily outside of New Orleans and became one of the most successful regional newspapers of its kind. Fredrick M. Spletstoser tells the story of the paper's first sixty years and of the town's triumphs and setbacks during that same time. An unpretentious country journal, the Town Talk would become in the second half of the twentieth century a pioneer in newspaper technology under the leadership of Joe D. Smith, one of the most respected names in American journalism. The Town Talk was inextricably bound up with - and often directly behind - transformations in Alexandria's urban landscape, the development of municipal services and education, efforts to attract industry and cultivate trade, and the stimulation of surrounding agribusiness. occurred across the turn of the century, the large and enduring military presence in central Louisiana, and the impact of Huey P. Long's political career. Along the way, he narrates colorful stories culled from the Town Talk's pages and describes the fascinating family members who published the paper during this entire period. Talk of the Town illustrates the role provincial journalism played in the planning and expansion of towns throughout the country as it relates the engrossing history of one southern place and the people who lived there.
Louisiana Reports
Author: Louisiana. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
American Monthly Review of Reviews
Author: Albert ShawAdvisory Commisssion on Intergovernmental Relations Library, Accumulative Periodical Index
Author: United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
Highways and Agricultural Engineering, Current Literature
Author: Highways, Current Literature
Author: Public Roads BureauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description