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.
Long Era
Long Era Index
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.
Architecture
A. Hays Town
A talented and prolific Louisiana architect, A. Hays Town shaped the residential architecture in mid-to late twentieth-century Louisiana.
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.
6.10 a.–b. Acadians in Colonial Louisiana
The Acadians, ancestors of present-day Cajuns, were people of French ancestry who settled in what is now Canada before migrating to Louisiana.
Art
Ada Thomas
Ada Thomas was one of few remaining weavers of traditional Chitimacha split-cane, double-weave baskets.
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.
Architecture
Afton Villa Plantation and Gardens
Only the gardens and fragments of foundations survive from the fire that destroyed the Afton Villa plantation house in 1963.
Art
Alan Flattmann
New Orleans artist Alan Flattmann has become recognized as one of the most influential and respected pastel artists in the country.
Art
Alan Gerson
Painter and attorney Alan Gerson has achieved international recognition for his artwork, perhaps most notably as an award-winning participant in the 2000 Florence Biennial.
Music
Albert Fernandez Walters
Albert Vincent “Fernandez” Walters was a traditional jazz musician from New Orleans who performed with the Young Tuxedo Brass Band and at Preservation Hall.
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