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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The New Orleans Public Library (NOPL) is the public library service of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Main Branch, New Orleans Public Library, on Loyola Avenue. The system began in 1896 as the Fisk Free and Public Library in a building on Lafayette Square. Abijah Fisk was a merchant who, over fifty years earlier, had left his houseat the corner of Iberville and Bourbon Streetsto the city for use as a library. Subsequent donations had resulted in libraries and collections not completely free and open to the citizenry. An 1896 city ordinance proposed by Mayor John Fitzpatrick combined the Fisk collection with a newer municipal library. It eventually became known as the New Orleans Public Library. A turn-of-the-century donation of $50,000 from businessman Simon Hernsheim allowed the library to begin building a significant collection. In 1902 the city received $250,000 from Andrew Carnegie to build a new main library and three branches. By 1908 the new main library was open at Lee Circle, and branches were open on Royal Street at Frenchmen Street the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood, on Pelican Avenue in Algiers, and on Napoleon Avenue near Magazine Street Uptown. By 2005, NOPL had a dozen branches in addition to a newer (1960) main library on Loyola Avenue. The branches included Algiers and Napoleon, mentioned above, although renamed. Flood damaged interior of M.L. King Branch before it was guttedNOPL was severely impacted by Hurricane Katrina on 29 August 2005. Damage to branch locations ran from two windows broken at the Cita Dennis Hubbell Branch in Algiers to complete destruction of the Martin Luther King Branch in the heavily damaged northern section of the Lower 9th Ward. Photographs of branch building da... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3444195 ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Carnegie Libraries in Louisiana, Public Libraries in Louisiana, New Orleans Public Library, Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, List of Carnegie Libraries in Louisiana, Iron Rail Book Collective, Louisiana State Archive and Research Library, Jennings Carnegie Public Library, Jefferson Davis Parish Library, Cameron Parish Public Library. Excerpt: The New Orleans Public Library (NOPL) is the public library service of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Main Branch, New Orleans Public Library, on Loyola Avenue. The system began in 1896 as the Fisk Free and Public Library in a building on Lafayette Square. Abijah Fisk was a merchant who, over fifty years earlier, had left his houseat the corner of Iberville and Bourbon Streetsto the city for use as a library. Subsequent donations had resulted in libraries and collections not completely free and open to the citizenry. An 1896 city ordinance proposed by Mayor John Fitzpatrick combined the Fisk collection with a newer municipal library. It eventually became known as the New Orleans Public Library. A turn-of-the-century donation of $50,000 from businessman Simon Hernsheim allowed the library to begin building a significant collection. In 1902 the city received $250,000 from Andrew Carnegie to build a new main library and three branches. By 1908 the new main library was open at Lee Circle, and branches were open on Royal Street at Frenchmen Street the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood, on Pelican Avenue in Algiers, and on Napoleon Avenue near Magazine Street Uptown. By 2005, NOPL had a dozen branches in addition to a newer (1960) main library on Loyola Avenue. The branches included Algiers and Napoleon, mentioned above, although renamed. Flood damaged interior of M.L. King Branch before i... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3444195 ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. When a Louisiana woman meets a young resort owner while on vacation, she begins to fall in love with him despite her own marriage. ... Read more

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Despite decades of effort to reverse such trends, disproportionate numbers of African American students continue to grow up in poverty, in single-parent households, raised by adults with limited education and skills--characteristics that are widely acknowledged as detrimental to academic success. The attempt to improve academic performance by merely rearranging the racial mix through desegregation has proven to be an overly simplistic and inadequate means of providing disadvantaged children with the skills and support they so desperately need. In fact, it appears that coercive desegregation efforts have actually caused school systems to re-segregate, by driving out large numbers of middle class white students.

Using extensive interviews and a wealth of statistical information, Bankston and Caldas examine the failed desegregation efforts in Louisiana as a case study to show how desegregation has followed the same unsuccessful pattern across the United States. Strong supporters of the dream of integration, Bankston and Caldas show that the practical difficulty with desegregation is that academic environments are created by all the students in a school from the backgrounds that all the students bring with them.Unfortunately, the disadvantages that minority children have to overcome affect schools more than schools can help remedy these disadvantages. ... Read more

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Hard, objective look at the damage of forced desegregation.
This is an excellent book which documents the effects of forced desegegation.By tracing the history of segregation in Louisiana and then focusing on three parishes (counties) in different stages of forced desegregation, the authors highlight the negative effects of this misguided policy.

What is unbelievable is that judges are still advocating busing when the authors have clearly demonstrated the negative effects,not only for the majority white students, but ultimately, for the black students as well. ... Read more

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Pictorial History of Northwest Louisiana. ... Read more

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Looks at the political and economic history of the region between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains which, when purchased by Jefferson in 1803, doubled the size of the United States and led the way to further expansion. ... Read more

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Describes the history, geography, ecology, people, economy, cities, and sights of the Pelican State of Louisiana. ... Read more

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An informative look at the colorful Pelican State
Louisiana may well be the most exotic of the continental United States, mainly on the strength of the French Quarter in New Orleans and the Creole culture.I can remember being in New Orleans one November watching a political ad on the television where one candidate was pointing out his opponent was a convicted felon and I was wondering how on Earth a convicted felon could run for public office and then I remembered I was in Louisiana, home of the "Kingfish" and other rather unique politicians.Martin Hintz's look at "Louisiana" for the America the Beautiful, Second Series, covers these aspects of the Pelican state and more.

Chapter One, "Hello to Louisiana," describes the state as "old and new, raucous and reflective," and a place that has plenty of everything.The next three chapters detail the history of Louisiana, beginning with Chapter Two, "Louisiana Is Born."Here young readers find out about the Mound Builders who originally settled the South and then the arrival of the European explorers.This chapter also covers the Louisiana Purchase and how the territory eventually became the 18th state in 1812.Chapter Three, "Louisiana Faces Challenges," begins with the Battle of New Orleans, covers the Civil War, and ends with the aftermath of Reconstruction.Chapter Four, "History's Later Chapters," covers more than the 20th century, but the emphasis is on the unique politics of the state, where both Huey P. Long and David Duke were key figures.

The interesting geography of the state is covered by Hintz in Chapter Five, "Louisiana's Low-Lying Land."Much of the state was once covered by the Gulf of Mexico and what exists today is related to that history.Chapter Six, "Louisiana's Ethereal Cities," looks at the special flavors of each section of the state, from Cajun Country to the Big Easy."Politics in the Pelican State" is covered in Chapter Seven, which explains the parish system and covers all of the state symbols, including both state songs ("You Are My Sunshine" and "Give Me Louisiana") and the state musical instrument (Diatonic accordion).

The economy of Louisiana is the subject of Chapter Eight, "Business is Business," where the Port of New Orleans features the world's longest continuous cargo complex but the state also produces lots of hot sauce, strawberries, and alligators (not that you would combine those for eating purposes: the recipe in the book is for red beans and rice).Chapter Nine, "Louisiana: A People Place," covers the diverse traditions in the state represented by the Creoles, Acadians, African-Americans, Germans and Swiss, Italians, Spanish and Hispanics, Asians, and Irish.Chapter Ten, "Culture Everywhere," is where Hintz gets to talk about Jazz and Blues music, Mardi Gras, "A Streetcar Named Desire," and the Superdome.

The back of the book includes a detailed Timeline contrasting U.S. and Louisiana state history and pages of Fast Facts. There is also a list of books, organizations, and Internet sites where young readers can go To Find Out More.The book is replete with full-color photographs and maps.My favorite parts have become the sidebars, where we get to find out about famous people, from "Beast" Butler to Rap Star Master P, places, like New Iberia and the Old State Capitol, and things, such as the Mississippi Steamboats and the state's salt domes. Young students will find a lot of information about each state in each volume of this series, and with over 50 states and territories, teachers can assign every student in their class a different state to research. ... Read more

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No creature is as good at being bad as Lapin, a no-good, no-count, do-nothing rascal of a rabbit down the banks of a Louisiana bayou. The truth is, as long as there are fools to be fooled, Lapin figures he might as well do the fooling. And the fortunate readers of these three illustrated tales will soon discover they wouldn't want it any other way. Full color. ... Read more

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Awesome and Adorable!!
We love this book!!!!I read this to my son who is 9 1/2 years old and has ADD.He has such a short attention span with any book I read to him.He actually looked at the photos and listened to me read this book without taking his eyes off of it. The rabbit is cunning and the wildcat part is histerically funny, we laughed and laughed.Thank you and You need to keep writing more funny books about this funny rabbit, wildcat.

I Love this Bunny!
I was enchanted by Br'er Rabbit when I was a small child. Now as an adult, I find myself emamoured with Compere Lapin! "Why Lapin's Ears Are Long"is a truly delightful story of a mischevious rabbit who knowswhat he wants, usually gets it and sometimes a little more than hebargained for.It's easy to find yourself laughing while reading thisstory aloud with a Cajun accent.The stories and illustrations are equallywonderful!Hope Madame Doucet plans to write more Lapin tales!

Excellent vocabulary & wonderful illustrations; captivating
I participate in a program in California called Rolling Readers.I am currently reading to a class of third graders.The children were enthralled with the book both with the stories and with the illustrations. They begged me to find more stories of Compere Lapin's antics.I cannotimagine a more successful book from their point of view.

It turns reading aloud into a cultural event
The pronunciation guide is the subtle difference in this children's book.Granted, the stories are amusing and the illustrations captivating but the real enjoyment comes from reading the story to a child "in character." ... Read more

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From the little-known Filibuster Wars to the Civil War battlefield of Gaines' Mill, this volume details the fascinating story of one of the South's most colorful military units, the 1st Louisiana Special Battalion, aka Wheat's Tigers. Beginning with a brief look at the Filibuster Wars (a set of military attempts to annex Latin American countries into the United States as slave states), the work takes a close look at the men who comprised Wheat's Tigers: Irish immigrant ship hands, New Orleans dock workers and Filibuster veterans. Commanded by one of the greatest antebellum filibusterers, Chatham Roberdeau Wheat, the Tigers quickly distinguished themselves in battle through their almost reckless bravery, proving instrumental in Southern victories at the battles of Front Royal, Winchester and Port Republic. An in-depth look at Battle of Gaines' Mill, in which Wheat's Tigers suffered heavy casualties, including their commander, completes the story. Appendices provide a compiled roster of the Wheat's Tigers, a look at the 1st Louisiana's uniforms and a copy of Wheat's report about the Battle of Manassas. Never-before-published photographs are also included. ... Read more

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Can't hold these Tigers.
Author Schreckengost states in his preface that his aim with this book was to "bring into the light" the exploits of the "original" Louisiana Tigers of the Army of Northern Virginia, and he accomplishes that pretty well. We are introduced to the filibustering exploits of Tiger leader Roberdeau Wheat in Central America in the 1850s to set the stage for the Tigers' devil-may-care attitude, though I think this chapter was a little too long for a book of this shorter length. We then learn how the Tigers came together from a collection of companies formed from the "best and worst" of New Orleans society, how they trained, and how they fought viciously at First Bull Run, the Valley Campaign of 1862, and the Seven Days, finally being absorbed into other Louisiana units after Wheat and other leaders were killed in June 1862.

Anyone interested in the Army of Northern Virginia, its Zouave units, the Louisiana Brigade (which adopted/was given the "Tiger" name), or even the accoutrements of early Zouave units will enjoy this book. Good maps too; but steep price ($55 from expensive publisher McFarland) may relegate this book to libraries or serious buyers/collectors only. As a descendant of a member of the 6th Louisiana, which fought alongside the Tigers in several fights, I found this to be a very enjoyable book.

First-rate military history of an almost legendary Louisiana Civil War unit
Wheat's Tigers was one of the more colorful Louisiana units in the Civil War, but this appears to be the first full-dress history of the battalion's activities, from its formation by Maj. Roberdeau Wheat in New Orleans in the summer of 1861 until it was nearly wiped out in the Seven Days in Virginia in August 1862. The battalion was formed partly by amalgamating several previously raised militia companies (Wheat convinced their officers to place him in overall command) and partly by enlisting new recruits with the aid of many of the local aid societies in the city, such as the Ladies Volunteer Aid Association. Wheat was a bellicose individual and had been part of William Walker's filibustering expedition to Nicaragua in 1855, as well of several earlier private expansionist attempts at invading Latin American nations. He was wounded at Manassas and killed in action at Gaines Mill. Some of the companies in the battalion wore Zouave uniforms while others preferred long, tunic-like "battle shirts." They were issued either M1842 muskets or the elderly M1816 conversions, though the Tiger Rifles, made up of selected skirmishers, were armed with the far superior M1841 "Mississippi Rifle," the nation's first percussion-cap weapon, manufactured at Harper's Ferry. (This sort of fascinating detail continues throughout the book, making it a natural for any student of the Civil War in Louisiana.) The battalion's movements for its single year of existence also are carefully detailed and there's a listing of the service records for all officers and men, though many of the latter are just names. (Tracking down the full records and later personal histories of all of Wheat's Tigers who survived the Seven Days, and many of whom transferred to other units, would be an interesting project for further research.)

Just a comment: Even though it's (naturally) a short-run title, the ever-climbing cost of nonfiction books is amazing; this one works out to more than twenty-six cents per page.

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I wrote the book to move the 1st Louisiana Special Battalion, "Wheat's Tigers," from the shadows or margins of history to its forefront. I felt that I had to improve upon the work of Charles Dufour, who did a solid biography of Roberdeau Wheat in: Gentle Tiger: The Gallant Life of Roberdeau Wheat, but who mentioned little if nothing about the rest of the battalion and who got too many of the battle sequences wrong (but what was accepted during the time of publication). Although am most pleased with my chapters on the filibuster wars, the battalion's formation in New Orleans, and the battles of 1st Manassas (esp. the phase on Henry Hill), Front Royal, and Gaines Mill, I have already found room for improvement, especially on the confusing engagement on Matthews's Hill. Since my publication, Ross Brooks has written a fine article entitled: "Desperate Stand: Wheat's First Special Battalion, Louisiana Volunteer Infantry on Matthew's Hill, 21 July 1861" in Military Collector & Historian Magazine. Hopefully, in a possible second edition, Ross an I will better articulate the confused battle. Either way, I recommend you read both accounts and synthesize them on your own. Also since publication, Ross Brooks has also found some new material that shows that the that the entire company of Tiger Rifles was outfitted with blue Zouave jackets with red cotton trim in New Orleans and that after the battle of Manassas, the survivors received a second issue of gray with burgandy trim so as to avoid any future friendly-fire incidents like that which occurred at the foot of Matthews's Hill (they therefore wore blue in 1861 and grey in 1862). I also recommend Ross's article in Military Collector & Historian Magazine: "Part Irish and the Rest the Flower of Southern Chivalry: Clothing, Arms, and Equipment of the 1st Louisiana Special Battalion of Louisiana Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1862." What I intended to do with the book was to take the Tigers from the shadows or margins of history and bring them to the forefront to elicit constructive debate and to spur future corrective research (i.e., Pie Dufour inspired me and maybe I can inspire others). Other good books to read about Confederate Louisianians are: Irish Rebels, Confederate Tigers: A History of the 6th Louisiana Volunteers, 1861-1865 and Lee's Tigers: The Louisiana Infantry in the Army of Northern Virginia (Civil War (Louisana State University Press)). You'll note that both titles use "Tigers" in them but thay are not the original--or Wheat's--Tigers, but those who assumed the moniker of Wheat's roughneck filibusters who conducted frontal assaults one too many times. I hope you enjoy the book as much as I enjoyed writing it, for it was a labor of love (although it was a very difficult unit to tackle). Today, the Tigers are best engendered by: The Fighting 69th: One Remarkable National Guard Unit's Journey from Ground Zero to Baghdad ,the New York National Guard unit, which, before 9/11, was considered to be at the absolute bottom of the Army food chain, but then rose to the occasion on the infamous day in their own way and ended up in Iraq, fighting like the Tigers of old. Some things just never change. A TIGER FOREVER! ... Read more

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Surveys the geography, history, people, and customs of the state of Louisiana. ... Read more

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Describes the history, geography, government, economics, and people of Louisiana. ... Read more

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Provides an overview of the state of Louisiana, covering its history, geography, government, economy, people, and culture. Includes a recipe for pecan pralines. ... Read more

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Presents information aobut the state of Louisiana and its nickname, motto, and emblems. ... Read more

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Discusses the history, economy, culture, and future of Louisiana. ... Read more

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More than Lousiana Lightnin'
Dixieland Jazz, cajun, creole, Lake Ponchartrain, ancient mansions, all of these images come to mind when one thinks of Louisiana. But, as this little volume demonstrates, there's more than meets the eye.

The "Portrait of America" series is a wonderful introduction for pre-teens to the 50 states and to the places and events that shaped the history of the United States. This "Louisiana" installment is particularly good. The book is broken down into sections like "History", "Culture", "Economy" etc., and each section is thoughtfully written and edited. And this edition is loaded with several beautiful photographs. The "Culture" section is my personal favorite.

This book, as well as the entire "Portrait of America" series, will prove to be a valuable teaching tool to all primary school educators. ... Read more