Spring 2021
About Our Cover
Performers in period costume reenact the 1811 German Coast Uprising. Photo by 2021 Documentary Photographer of the Year Abdul Aziz.
Contents
An Archive for Antoine’s
Carol Bebelle, Champion of Culture
Defining a Disaster a Century in the Making
Wolf at the Door
A Cautionary (and Funky) Tale
Domestic Conflict
Frank de Caro
John Scott: Dancing at the Crossroads
The Power of Passion
Departments
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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
Spring 2021
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
