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
The Rise of the Spaghetti District
Excavating the Mysteries of Poverty Point
Arpents, Ligas, and Acres
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