Spring 2016
About Our Cover
- “Zachary Richard: Musician, Poet, and Statesman”, interview by Michael Martin
- “The Room Must Evoke Some Ghosts: Writing After Tennessee” by Lisa D’Amour
- “Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery” by Adam Rothman
- “A Tale of Two Kings: the Shape of Shreveport Films”
- “La Nueva Frontera: Oral Histories from the Latino Communities of Lafayette” by Kathleen Schott Espinoza
- David Spielman: 2016 Michael P. Smith Documentary Photographer of the Year
Contents
Tradition’s Unbroken Chain and Inevitable Evolution
Arpents, Ligas, and Acres
The Rise of the Spaghetti District
Departments
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Articles
Magazine
David Spielman
The 2016 Michael P. Smith Photographer of the Year
Magazine
The Room Must Evoke Some Ghosts
Writing after Tennessee Williams
Q&A: Beth Courtney
Spring 2016
Excavating the Mysteries of Poverty Point
2016 Humanities Book of the Year features two distinctive voices
Tradition’s Unbroken Chain and Inevitable Evolution
Geographer's Space
Arpents, Ligas, and Acres
The cadastral system left cultural fingerprints on Louisiana's landscape
Magazine
La Nueva Frontera: Oral Histories from the Latino Communities of Lafayette
A professor and her students record nearly 100 different oral histories of Latino immigrants living in the Lafayette area
Magazine
Zachary Richard: Musician, Poet, and Statesman
The 2016 Humanist of the Year sits down with Michael Martin for an interview
Foodways
The Rise of the Spaghetti District
Pasta’s remarkable arrival in New Orleans
