Summer 2025
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Photo courtesy of Xavier University of Louisiana
Contents
Inspiring Shared Purpose
A Life Behind the Lens
Book Magic
Celebrating Louisiana's Cajun and Creole Cultures
Music in the Streets
Arresting History
The Cool Head in the Room
Departments
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Articles
Summer 2025
Ancestral Artistry
The 2025 Documentary Film of the Year spotlights Black master artisans’ contributions to Louisiana architecture
Summer 2025
Inspiring Shared Purpose
Norman C. Francis is the 2025 Humanist of the Year
Summer 2025
A Life Behind the Lens
Pableaux Johnson (1966-2025) is the 2025 Documentary Photographer of the Year
Summer 2025
For the Love of Cats and Dogs
Remembering the efforts to rescue and reunite pets with their owners post-Katrina, twenty years later
Book Magic
Jim Davis is this year’s Lifetime Contributions to the Humanities awardee
Summer 2025
Celebrating Louisiana's Cajun and Creole Cultures
Festivals Acadiens et Créoles is the 2025 Champion of Culture
Music in the Streets
A Closer Walk: New Orleans Music History, Block by Block is the 2025 Best in Digital Humanities award winner
Summer 2025
Arresting History
Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930 by John Bardes is the 2025 Book of the Year
Summer 2025
A Light in Donaldsonville
Lt. Michael Brooks Shines as the 2025 Light Up for Literacy Awardee
Summer 2025
The Cool Head in the Room
Willie Landry Mount Receives the 2025 Chair’s Award for Institutional Support
Parish Spotlight
The Day of a Thousand Hells
The 1971 EF-5 tornado that struck near Delhi, Louisiana
Magazine
Friends of the Farmers
A statewide coalition bolsters access to fresh, healthy food by training and funding farmers
Summer 2025
Fiddle Around
Gina Forsyth answered the call of the fais-do-do
Summer 2025
The River Meanders
Looking at the oxbow towns of Louisiana
Summer 2025
A Link to the Past
Down Home Meats, Inc., has produced a popular brand of smoked sausage in DeSoto Parish since 1982
Summer 2025
Leap of Faith
A new exhibition celebrates the growth of New Orleans’s Vietnamese community over the past half century.
Magazine
Manifest
Northwest Louisiana’s creative incubator
Summer 2025
Gateway to Poste de Attakapas
An excerpt from Richard Campanella’s new book Crossroads, Cutoffs, and Confluences (LSU Press)
Summer 2025
Summer on the Isle
Sunbathers on the dunes of Grand Isle, photographed by Eugene Delcroix (1943)
Magazine
Poetry by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Selected by Louisiana Poet Laureate Alison Pelegrin
Summer 2025
Laughably Terrible
Sherwood Anderson’s Dark Laughter is “easy to hate”
