Summer 2023
About Our Cover
Publicity photo of Louis Prima with a trumpet. Hogan Jazz Archive, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University.
Contents
Cajun Culture Bearers
The Rost Home Colony
Louis Prima and the Sicilian Sound
Liberation on Their Own Terms
A Bar Called Charlene’s
A Scholar and an Advocate
Hands in Sacred Dirt
A Champion in the Senate
Sharing the Range
The Power of One
Departments
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Articles
Une place à la table
French tables help perpetuate Louisiana’s linguistic heritage
Immunocapitalism
The Humanities Book of the Year is Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom by Kathryn Olivarius
Cajun Culture Bearers
Roots of Fire is the LEH Documentary Film of the Year
Magazine
An Invention You Can Pour
An excerpt from The Vieux Carré by John DeMers
From Freeman and Harris to Orlandeaux’s
A Shreveport family upholds more than a culinary legacy
The Rost Home Colony
The rise and fall of a Reconstruction experiment
Summer Nights and a Salute to Henry Price
The man who shines his light on NWLA arts and artists
Louis Prima and the Sicilian Sound
The influence of Italian immigration on jazz and swing
Magazine
The Case of the Electrified All Girl Band
The mystery of a two-hit wonder
Poetry by Chuck Perkins
Selected by Louisiana Poet Laureate Mona Lisa Saloy
Five Acres and a Mill
Organic rice cultivation in Rapides Parish
Liberation on Their Own Terms
Freedom on the Move is the 2023 Best in Digital Humanities awardee
Why Is Grand Isle in Jefferson Parish?
Notes on parish topography
American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
Examining democracy in a traveling exhibition
Creole New Orleans, Honey! The Art of Andrew LaMar Hopkins
A self-taught artist explores Louisiana’s Creole past
A Bar Called Charlene’s
The lesbian dive that became a nexus for gay rights in New Orleans
Where the Locals Eat
Monroe’s Mohawk Tavern
Diet Gospel
H. Leighton Steward’s Sugar Busters!
A Scholar and an Advocate
Marianne Fisher-Giorlando is the 2023 Lifetime Contributions to the Humanities awardee
Hands in Sacred Dirt
Documentary Photographer of the Year Jenny Ellerbe’s images of Native American mounds
A Champion in the Senate
Introducing the 2023 Champion of Culture, State Senator Gerald Boudreaux
Sharing the Range
Chef John Folse is the LEH’s 2023 Humanist of the Year
The Power of One
Megan Holt is the 2023 Light Up for Literacy awardee
