Summer 2019
About Our Cover
A photo from the National Archives shows the entrance to Camp Livingston, an army base which also served as an internment camp for Japanese men during World War II.
Departments
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Articles
Parish Spotlight
DeRidder’s Gothic Jail
The “Hanging Jail” in Beauregard Parish offers architectural history and decades of ghost stories
Bookstand
Rethinking Reconstruction
A new history of Reconstruction in Louisiana and South Carolina reveals an alternative path not taken for US race relations
Bookstand
Listen Local
Louisiana-made podcasts provide a window into the inner life of the Bayou State
Parish Spotlight
The Shreveport Water Works Museum
A North Louisiana site preserves engineering history
Parish Spotlight
Cuts to Culture
Budget woes threaten the capital’s cultural institutions
Hidden in Plain Sight
Japanese internment in Louisiana during World War II
Nueva New Orleans
The role of Latino/as in rebuilding New Orleans
Lexicon
Do Cajuns Speak Cajun?
The complex relationship between language names and identity
Shreveport Regional Arts Council
Seeking Sanctuary
Award-winning glass artist Eric Hess curates artspace Summer of Glass
Parish Spotlight
An Ignominious Anniversary
2019 marks three hundred years since the arrival of the first slave ships in Louisiana
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Piercing the Inner Wall
The art of Dusti Bongé
Magazine
Young Satchmo
Silent film clip appears to show Louis Armstrong as a teenager
Poetry
The Poetry of Cassie Pruyn
Selected by Louisiana Poet Laureate Jack Bedell
Parish Spotlight
C’est Si Triste Sans Lui
Silk art by Megan Barra
Arts Council of Northeast Louisiana
Keep Cool with Cooley
A Prairie-style historic home in Northeast Louisiana
Sound Advice
The New Orleans Pop Festival
Fifty years since Louisiana’s Woodstock
Historic New Orleans Collection
THNOC Embraces the Contemporary
Art takes center stage as a new campus opens on Royal Street
The Many Lives of Marie Baron
A French orphan survived captivity in two countries to give an early testimonial of women’s experiences in colonial Louisiana
Geographer's Space
Putting the “64” in 64 Parishes
A geographical self-assessment
Lost Lit
Black and Blue
Between the covers with Steve Cannon
Hilliard Museum
Each Moment
The value of focus and presence in artistic work
