Articles
64 Parishes Story Receives Top Regional Journalism Award
“A Bar Called Charlene’s” by Robert Fieseler was honored with the Green Eyeshade Award, the top honor distributed by Southerners from the Society for Professional Journalists
64 Parishes Contributors Are Finalists for Nine 2024 Press Club of New Orleans Awards
Alexandra Kennon Shahin Joins 64 Parishes as New Managing Editor
Alexandra Kennon Shahin has joined the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities as Managing Editor of 64 Parishes.
64 Parishes Spring 2024 Publication Party
On Tuesday, March 19, join the 64 Parishes team to celebrate the release of the spring issue and toast the magazine's contributors.
What Might Have Happened at Manchac
Geographer’s Space with Richard Campanella, Episode 11
64 Parishes Fall 2023 Publication Party
Join us in Thibodaux on November 2
Welcome to the Jungle
Edwin Edwards, democratic reform, and political confusion in Louisiana’s open election system
Not Worth the Paper They Were Printed On
Louisiana’s state debt default of 1843
64 Parishes Publication Party March 9
Celebrating the spring issue in Madisonville
Monroe Celebrates 64 Parishes
The return of magazine publication parties
64 Parishes Publication Party November 3
Join us in Monroe for refreshments and a panel discussion
Remembering Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
A farewell to the influential historian
64 Parishes Wins Nine 2022 Press Club of New Orleans Awards
Read our winning stories
Today’s News
The Changing Role of the Black Press in Louisiana Life
Iron Sharpens Iron
In Plaquemines Parish, oil and water threaten the survival of a historically Black community
What's at Stake?
A Conversation on Culture and the Changing Coast
After Ida
Exploring cultural preservation during climate change
64 Parishes Wins Nine Press Club of New Orleans Awards
Magazine recognized in seven categories, including first place for Best Magazine, at the 63nd Annual Excellence in Journalism Awards
A Reading from Mona Lisa Saloy
The new Louisiana Poet Laureate presents her first public reading in the position
Bright Lights Online: Remembering Frank de Caro
A conversation among folklorists
Bright Lights Online: Katrina, a History
Historian Andy Horowitz's book Katrina, A History: 1915–2015 is the 2021 Humanities Book of the Year
Bright Lights Online: Abdul Aziz
In conversation with C. J. Hunt
Bright Lights Online: Carol Bebelle
In conversation with Kelly Harris-DeBerry
The Ledger and the Chain
In conversation with Joshua Rothman
A Conversation between Martha Jones and Leslie Harris
Jones and Harris discuss Jones's book Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Poetry
Poetry in a Pandemic
Discussing the ways poetry can help the spirit in these disruptive times
Breaking Ground
A conversation on French colonial-era archaeological sites in New Orleans
“Operation Ouch”
A look back at past mass-vaccination campaigns in Louisiana
Geographer's Space
One Night in Louisiana
What if Abraham Lincoln had died in an 1828 scuffle?
The Limits of Grit
Why we forget Lake Charles
His Last Ride
A Jazz Funeral for Sylvester “Hawk” Francis, Sr.
64 Parishes Wins Seven Press Club of New Orleans Awards
Magazine recognized in six categories, including first place for Best Magazine, at the 62nd Annual Excellence in Journalism Awards
Art in the Aftermath
Paused by a pandemic and battered by a hurricane, Lake Charles looks ahead
The Winnsboro Easter Rock
A Baptist tradition with West African roots
Who Gets to Vote?
Books to help you navigate America’s complicated history of voting rights
Reflecting on History in the Wake of George Floyd’s Killing
Reading for historical context
Masking the Pain
Social distancing practices recall mourning rituals from an earlier time
On Tomatoes and South Louisiana Cooking
Delicious or blasphemous? The debate continues.
Laureates Online with Ava Leavell Haymon
Ava Leavell Haymon reads our final entry in Laureates Online as part of National Poetry Month
Tales from Wartime New Orleans
WWII–era parallels to the current COVID-19 crisis, presented in partnership with the National WWII Museum
Laureates Online with Julie Kane
64 Parishes presents Laureates Online, a series marking National Poetry Month with virtual readings
Messages and Messengers in Public Health Crises
A conversation with epidemiologist Julie Hernandez
Laureates Online with Jack Bedell
64 Parishes presents Laureates Online, a series marking National Poetry Month with virtual readings
Laureates Online with John Warner Smith
64 Parishes presents Laureates Online, a series marking National Poetry Month with virtual readings
Quarantine Reading List: Comfort Edition
Presented in partnership with Garden District Book Shop
Quarantunes
A playlist to keep your spirits up
Geographer's Space
Gretna's Mechanickham
Geographer's Space with Richard Campanella, Episode 9
Quarantine Reading List: Escapist Edition
This quarantine reading list is produced in partnership with Tubby and Coo’s Mid-City Book Shop
Quarantine Reading List: On-Topic Edition
Books to help you make sense of the crisis
Geographer's Space
COVID Geography: Notes from New Orleans
This special quarantine issue of Geographer’s Space is produced in partnership with LSU Press
Spring 2020
Reenacting the German Coast Uprising
Performance artist Dread Scott and an army of volunteers commemorate resistance to slavery in recent performance piece
En Francais, Pour Toujours
Louisiana Public Broadcasting's francophone archives get preservation help
Past and Present Jazzfest Through the Lens of Ben Sandmel
Sandmel has been working with Jazzfest for 36 years and has the stories to prove it
5 Things You Didn't Know About Congo Square
From the birth of jazz to the commercialization of Voodoo, Congo Square has had a lot to do with shaping New Orleans culture
Excerpt: Pythian Temple
The Pythian Temple, located at the corner of Loyola Avenue and Gravier Street, has a 100+ year long history
Excerpt: The Saints Are Coming
Super Bowl XLIV and the New Orleans comeback
The Poetry of Jack Bedell
Dr. Jack Bedell served as Louisiana's Poet Laureate from 2017 to 2019
Excerpt: Big Time City
The transformation of Poydras Street marked a turning point for New Orleans in the 1970s
Review: “Krazy” by Michael Tisserand
A review of Michael Tisserand's biography of cartoonist George Herriman
Women at Work
Review: Murder in the Bayou
Ethan Brown investigates the fate of the Jeff Davis 8
Review: Louis Michot Takes Manhattan
The Lost Bayou Ramblers frontman holds court at The Stone
Muhammad Ali and the Early Days of the Superdome
Sherman Copelin on the politics of Ali's 1978 fight in New Orleans
An Oasis of Music
An oral history of WWOZ's legendary "Treehouse" studio
10 Fascinating Facts about the Louisiana Hayride
Shreveport's popular radio show helped further the careers of relative unknowns like Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley
Winter 2015
10 Fascinating Facts About the Civil War in Louisiana
Fall 2015
An Interview with Governor Mike Foster
The former governor reflects on his time in office
Mr. Edwards Goes to Paris: A Conversation with Photographer Philip Gould
Photographer Philip Gould remembers Edwin Edwards' legendary 1984 voyage
Suddenly Less Summer
How air conditioning transformed the South
Q&A: Clayton Delery-Edwards
Delery wrote The Up Stairs Lounge Arson: Thirty-Two Deaths in a Gay Bar, June 24, 1973, the story behind the most fatal blaze in New Orleans’ history, a deliberately ignited fire that targeted a gay bar in the French Quarter.
