Spring 2015

About Our Cover
- “A Conversation with Cokie Roberts” by David Johnson
- “Passion Play” photo essay by Deborah Luster
- “The Up Stairs Lounge Arson” by Clayton Delery-Edwards
- “Delta Pieces: Northeast Louisiana Folklife” by Susan Roach
- The Tidelands Dispute by Leslie Alexander
- Queen Sugar fiction by Natalie Baszile
Departments
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Articles
Spring 2015

A Conversation with Cokie Roberts
In 2015 the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities honored broadcast and print journalist and author Cokie Roberts as Humanist of the Year.

The Far-Reaching Legacy of Lead Belly
Magazine

The Tidelands Dispute
Louisiana and the federal government have been engaged in a decades-long contentious debate over who shares royalty payments from the mineral-rich submerged lands of the Gulf of Mexico
Spring 2015

When Humans Were Chattel
The Purchased Lives exhibition surveys the brutal business of the domestic slave trade and one of its biggest hubs, New Orleans
Spring 2015

Schools of Nursing
Buildings that served as training centers for nurses conveyed an impression of order and discipline