Winter 2024
“A Meanly Built Village”
An excerpt from Natchitoches, Louisiana, 1803–1840: A Creole Community on the American Frontier
LSU Press
“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
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
Victor Séjour, La Société des Artisans, and Afro-Creole Literary Protest
An excerpt from Creole New Orleans in the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1775–1877 by Caryn Cossé Bell
Magazine
Won’t Bow Down. Don’t Know How.
An excerpt from The Danse Macabre: Celebration and Survival in New Orleans by Cheryl Gerber
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