Lincoln in Louisiana
Book Excerpt, Magazine, Spring 2011
In 1828 and 1831, a young Abraham Lincoln would visit New Orleans by way of a flatboat journey down the Mississippi River. He was nearly killed on his first excursion.
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Excerpt: The Saints Are Coming
Book Excerpt, Latest, Tricentennial Excerpts
Super Bowl XLIV and the New Orleans comeback
Queen of Creole Cuisine
Foodways, Magazine, Spring 2017
Nellie Murray was a celebrated chef in nineteenth-century New Orleans.
The LEH’s home at Turners’ Hall
Magazine, Summer 2001
Built in 1868 for the Society of Turners, a German benevolent association, Turners' Hall has been the home of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities since December 2000
Loaded Down with Iniquity
Fall 2015, Magazine
In 1866, six madams brought a crop of new talent back to New Orleans aboard the Evening Star, but the steamer never made it to its destination
Scorchers, Wheelmen, and Flyers
Magazine, Summer 2016
The brief but significant life of Audubon Driving Park.
Jordan Noble: Drummer, Soldier, Statesman
Magazine, Winter 2015
The incredible life of a marching music pioneer
Streetcar Stories
Magazine, Spring 1996
New Orleans is the only city that never entirely lost a fleet of electric streetcars from the early modern era
Young Satchmo
Magazine, Summer 2019
Silent film clip appears to show Louis Armstrong as a teenager
The Dying Pelican
Current Issue, Magazine, Spring 2024
Romanticism, local color, and nostalgic New Orleans
