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Sweet Spots

Edited by Teresa A. Toulouse & Barbara C. Ewell
Categories: History

Contributions by Carrie Bernhard, Scott Bernhard, Marilyn R. Brown, Richard Campanella, John P. Clark, Joel Dinerstein, Pableaux Johnson, John P. Klingman, Angel Adams Parham, Bruce Boyd Raeburn, Ruth ...

Walking Raddy

Edited by Kim Vaz-Deville
Foreword by Karen Trahan Leathem
Categories: Louisiana

Contributions by Jennifer Atkins, Vashni Balleste, Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd, Ron Bechet, Melanie Bratcher, Jerry Brock, Ann Bruce, Violet Harrington Bryan, Rachel Carrico, Sarah Anita Clunis, Phillip Colwart, ...

Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans

By Melissa Daggett
Categories: History

Modern American Spiritualism blossomed in the 1850s and continued as a viable faith into the 1870s. Because of its diversity and openness to new cultures and religions, New Orleans provided fertile ground ...

Confessions of an Undercover Agent

This true story of an ex-Marine who fought crime as an undercover cop, a narcotics agent, and finally a federal prosecutor spans a decade of crime fighting and narrow escapes. Charlie Spillers dealt with ...

Unveiling the Muse

By Howard Philips Smith
Foreword by Henri Schindler
Categories: Louisiana

Traditional Carnival has been well documented with a vast array of books published on the subject. However, few of them, if any, mention gay Carnival krewes or the role of gay Carnival within the larger ...

New Orleans Remix

Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence
Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz – Certificate of Merit (2018)

Since the 1990s, New Orleans has been experiencing its greatest ...

Fragile Grounds

Recipient of a 2018 Preserve Louisiana Award and a 2018 Coastal Stewardship Award

Fragile Grounds compiles stories and photographs of endangered cemeteries throughout Louisiana's coastal zone and beyond. ...

A Season of Night

For many months after Hurricane Katrina, life in New Orleans meant negotiating streets strewn with debris and patrolled by the United States Army. Most of the city was without power. Emptied and ruined ...

Swamp Rat

Theodore G. Manno traces the history of nutria from their natural range in South America to their status as an invasive species known for destroying the environmentally and economically important wetlands ...

The House That Sugarcane Built

The House That Sugarcane Built