Music
"When the Saints Go Marching In"
"When the Saints Go Marching In" has been adopted as the anthem of the city of New Orleans and is the fight song of its football team, The Saints, named in its honor.
Greater New Orleans
Greater New Orleans Index
Government, Politics & Law
1795 Point Coupee Slave Conspiracy
Enslaved, free Black, and white people planned an insurrection to end slavery in Spanish colonial Louisiana roughly 150 miles north of New Orleans.
Folklife
1873 Comus Parade
Mardi Gras of 1873 provided the occasion for a bold display of political commentary and costume artistrly by the Mystick Krewe of Comus.
Literature
A Confederacy of Dunces
Despite the difficulties John Kennedy Toole faced while trying to publish A Confederacy of Dunces, the novel went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and sell more than two million copies.
Literature
A Streetcar Named Desire
In 1947 playwright Tennessee Williams premiered A Streetcar Named Desire, a critically acclaimed theatrical work that won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948.
Art
A. J. Meek
An acclaimed scholar and photographer, A.J. Meek has been documenting life in Louisiana since 1977.
History
A. P. Tureaud
A. P. Tureaud was a key legal activist in an era of vigorous challenges to Jim Crow in twentieth-century Louisiana.
Art
Achille Perelli
Italian-born sculptor Achille Perelli was an active participant in the New Orleans arts scene from 1850 to 1891.
Art
Achille Peretti
A native of Italy, Achille Peretti immigrated to the United States in 1884 following government repression of the First International, a leftist association of socialists and labor leaders to which he belonged.
Art
Adolph Rinck
Adolph Rinck settled in New Orleans around 1840 where he was a successful portrait and miniature painter, art teacher, and sketch artist.
Art
Adrian Deckbar
New Orleans artist Adrian Deckbar's photo realistic paintings are based on the landscape that surrounds her and often portray Louisiana swamps and wetlands.
History
African Americans in the Civil War
African Americans, both freed and enslaved, played critical roles in Civil War Louisiana.
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