Spring 2021

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Performers in period costume reenact the 1811 German Coast Uprising. Photo by 2021 Documentary Photographer of the Year Abdul Aziz.
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Articles

Sent South into Bondage
A historian chronicles kidnapping in antebellum America

Cane Contemplations
Sweetening the present, remembering the past

“You Smell Like a Garbage Can!”
The raw, raucous blues of Boogie Bill Webb

On That Word “Delta”
Fluid feature, fluid meaning
Coastal

Port Fourchon
A facility providing an example of coastal cooperation
Magazine

The Rebel in Us All
School desegregation in Caddo Parish, Louisiana

An Archive for Antoine’s
Organizing the history of the culinary icon

Carol Bebelle, Champion of Culture
The power to produce change

Defining a Disaster a Century in the Making
Historian Andy Horowitz looks back to understand Louisiana’s most devastating storm

Wolf at the Door
Amid a bumper crop of Louisiana-themed podcasts released in 2020, Slow Burn: David Duke stood out for its breadth and humanity

A Cautionary (and Funky) Tale
Professor Longhair: Rugged & Funky is Humanities Documentary Film of the Year
Spring 2021

Domestic Conflict
Photographer Abdul Aziz documents tumultuous times

Frank de Caro
A well-loved folklorist will be remembered for kindness, humor, and scholarship

John Scott: Dancing at the Crossroads
John Scott is the 2021 Humanist of the Year

An Iconic New Orleans Event, Virtually Yours
The festival bounces back with an online iteration

The Power of Passion
The 2021 Light Up for Literacy Award goes to Dr. Patricia Austin
LSU Museum of Art

The Art of Seating
Two Hundred Years of American Design

Once in a Millennium Moon
Celebrating 20 years of Shreveport's mega mural

Finding Economy Hall
Remembering the politics and philanthropy that preceded the jazz

The Cultural Oak Tree
Natural symbols for southwest Louisiana resilience

Gwendolyn Midlo Hall and the Future of Louisiana Studies
Looking at the career of an influential scholar

From Holy Cross to Oakland
Poetry by David Havird, selected by Louisiana Poet Laureate John Warner Smith

A Pox on All Their Houses
Valerie Martin's A Recent Martyr

William Haney and Haney’s Big House
An African American businessman ran a popular Ferriday nightclub

Indian Peace Medals
European powers used awards to keep Native allies on their side
