Historic New Orleans Collection
A Long Arc of Injustice
A new exhibition explores the historical links between the institutions of slavery and mass incarceration in Louisiana
Articles
Summer 2024
A Gift for the Ages
The legacy of Laura Simon Nelson
Spring 2024
Tall Orders
Two new exhibitions shine “three great lights” on the history, symbology, and lore of Freemasonry
Winter 2023
Looking at Louisiana
A new photography book from The Historic New Orleans Collection
Summer 2023
American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
Examining democracy in a traveling exhibition
Spring 2023
Striving for the Ballot
“Yet She Is Advancing”: New Orleans Women and the Right to Vote, 1878–1970
Winter 2022
Step into the Notre-Dame Cathedral
An augmented reality experience at The Historic New Orleans Collection
Historic New Orleans Collection
Nueva Orleans
A closer look at the city’s Spanish history
Summer 2022
An Urban Landmark, Reframed
An Urban Landmark, Reframed
Spring 2022
Backstage at A Streetcar Named Desire
New THNOC exhibition goes backstage at a classic drama
Winter 2021
The Greatest Free Show on Earth
Making Mardi Gras marches into THNOC’s exhibition enter
Historic New Orleans Collection
Styling Out
An excerpt from the new book Dancing in the Streets explores the planning and artistry behind social aid and pleasure clubs’ finery
Summer 2021
Celebrating a Master’s Centennial
John Clemmer at 100
Spring 2021
Finding Economy Hall
Remembering the politics and philanthropy that preceded the jazz
Winter 2020
Celebrating a Monumental Life
A graphic novel illustrates Reconstruction
Historic New Orleans Collection
Lost Friends
Free people sought reunion with friends and family after emancipation
Summer 2020
Cajun Document
A new THNOC exhibition and book to explore Acadiana in the 1970s
Spring 2020
NOLA Resistance
Voices from the Civil Rights Movement
Winter 2019
Photographic Pioneer
An early New Orleans shutterbug was also an Ursuline nun
Historic New Orleans Collection
Enigmatic Stream
Photographer Richard Sexton captures the complexities of the Mississippi’s industrial corridor
Summer 2019
THNOC Embraces the Contemporary
Art takes center stage as a new campus opens on Royal Street
Spring 2019
Suzanne Douvillier
The extraordinary life of a pioneering ballerina
Winter 2018
Discovering the Lost 1866 Issues of the New Orleans Tribune
The issues provided honest coverage of the Mechanics’ Institute Massacre of July 30, 1866
Historic New Orleans Collection
An Archival Collective Safeguards LGBT+ History
Summer 2018
Tennessee, Revisited and Revived
Spring 2018
They Built This City
New exhibition and book examine early New Orleans and it's people
Winter 2017
Voices of the City
The Historic New Orleans Collection oral histories spark WWNO series
Historic New Orleans Collection
Fruits of a Passion
Laura Simon Nelson's collection of Southern Art is now on display at The Historic New Orleans Collection
Summer 2017
Sights and Sounds of Storyville
The Historic New Orleans Collection has an exhibition complementing the recently published book, "Guidebooks to Sin"
Spring 2017
A New Orleans Griot Returns to Print
The Historic New Orleans Collection publishes new edition of Danny Barker’s autobiography
Winter 2016
Shopping Crossroads
As a major metropolis from the late 18th century to today, New Orleans has always had a strong tradition of retail activity
Historic New Orleans Collection
Banknote Bonanza
An exhibit surveys pre-Civil War currency in America with a special focus on Louisiana
Spring 2015
When Humans Were Chattel
The Purchased Lives exhibition surveys the brutal business of the domestic slave trade and one of its biggest hubs, New Orleans
Historic New Orleans Collection
Remembering Andrew Jackson
An exhibition at HNOC coincides with the bicentennial of a landmark battle
