Winter 2024
“A Meanly Built Village”
An excerpt from Natchitoches, Louisiana, 1803–1840: A Creole Community on the American Frontier
LSU Press
“Easier to Sing Than to Talk"
Excerpt from You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis and the Biography of a Song
“I am going to do something for you.”
An excerpt from Kingfish U: Huey Long and LSU by Robert Mann
Spring 2023
“I’m Not Playing”
An excerpt from Moving the Chains: The Civil Rights Protest That Saved the Saints and Transformed New Orleans
Magazine
An Invention You Can Pour
An excerpt from The Vieux Carré by John DeMers
Being Once Free
Excerpt from Invisible Blackness: A Louisiana Family in the Age of Racial Passing
Winter 2025
From the Ashes
Excerpt from New Orleans: A Concise History of an Exceptional City
Summer 2025
Gateway to Poste de Attakapas
An excerpt from Richard Campanella’s new book Crossroads, Cutoffs, and Confluences (LSU Press)
I Wanted to Read About the South: Becoming a Writer
An excerpt from Cherie Quarters: The Place and the People That Inspired Ernest J. Gaines, by Ruth Laney
The Gumbo Family Tree
An excerpt from "Gumbo" by Jonathan Olivier
The Reach of New Orleans Drumming: “He Taught Me a Lesson”
An Excerpt from Drumsville! by Robert H. Cataliotti
Fall 2024
The Witching Hour
An excerpt from Nocturnal New Orleans
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