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Winter 2009-10 Contents: (Current Issue)
• William Woodward: American Impressionist in New Orleans by Judith Bonner, Ph.D.
• Three Generations of Coushatta Women by Linda Langley, Ph.D.; Claude Oubre, Ph.D.; and Jay Precht, Ph.D.
• Dogs In My Life: The New Orleans Photographs of John Tibule Mendes by John H. Lawrence
• The Lexicon of Place: Deconstructing New Orleans’ names, nicknames, and slogans by Richard Campanella
• The World that Made New Orleans by Ned Sublette, Ph.D.
• Showdown in Desire by Orissa Arend |
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Fall 2009 Contents:
• John Biguenet: Writer Craftsman by Kathy Finn
• Grace Before Dying, photo essay by Lori Waselchuk
• “When I was big enough to tote a gun, I did” by Karen Leathem, Ph.D.
• Music Flows Like Water by Bruce Boyd Raeburn
• The Missing by Tim Gautreaux
• Louisiana Sugar Mill, a final photo essay by Jorge Otero |
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Summer 2009 Contents:
• Hank at the Hayride by Glen Jeansonne, Ph.D., and David Luhrssen
• A Place of Their Own: Women Artists 1825-1965 by Judith H. Bonner
• One Drop by Bliss Broyard
• Our Daily bread by Michael Mizell-Nelson, Ph.D.
• Natalie Scott: A magnificent life by John W. Scott, Ph.D.
• Leonidas Polk: the fighting bishop by Cheryl H. White, Ph.D. |
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Spring 2009 Contents:
• A Pilot’s Perspective photo essay by Kevin Levine
• The Backstory on Louisiana Story by Ryan André Brasseaux
• Sacrificial Lands by M.L. Eichhorn
• The Musical Career of Nellie Lutcher by Delma McLeod-Porter
• In Search of Galveztown by Mary Ann Sternberg
• Curse of the Mulatto, fiction by Maggie Collins, photo by Cheryl Gerber
• Katrina Days photo essay by George Long |
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Winter 2008-09 Contents:
• Prospect.1 New Orleans
• The Enduring Performance of Michael P. Smith by Jason Berry
• Birds of a Feather by John H. Lawrence and Erin Greenwald
• O. Winston Link in Louisiana by Winston Conway Link
• The Colfax Massacre by LeeAnna Keith, Ph.D.
• Unlocking History of Greek Key Architecture by Jay D. Edwards, Ph.D. |
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Fall 2008 Contents:
• New Orleans Immortelle by Krista Jurisich
• Highland-Fairfield: The Historic Heart of Shreveport by Eric J. Brock
• Perils of the Mississippi River by Sally K. Reeves
• Harvest of Life by Daniel d’Oney, Ph.D.
• King Oliver: The Forgotten King of Jazz by Roger Hahn
• Eye of the Storm photo essay by Sandra Burshell
• Soul Resin, fiction by C.W. Cannon, Ph.D. |
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Summer 2008 Contents:
• George Rodrigue's Louisiana by Michael Lewis
• After the Flood photo essay by Robert Polidori
• Faubourg Marigny by Keith Weldon Medley
• Preserving New Orleans Jazz: Conversation with Tom Sancton by Bruce Raeburn
• Baton Rouge Photographs, 1863-1910 by Mark E. Martin
• Nature of the Beast (Gen. Butler) by Gary D. Joiner |
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Spring 2008 Contents:
• Jean Seidenberg: A Brush with the Intimate by Jean Seidenberg
• Preparing the Place for Hell by James G. Hollandsworth, Jr., Ph.D.
• LA’s Native American Basketry by Paul Tarver & Jane S. Irwin
• Rushing into The East by John Magill
• Portraits of Southern Artists by Jerry Siegel
• 40 Days and 40 Nights photo essay by Donn Young
• Conversation with a Native Son: Yusef Komunyakaa
• “Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated” |
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Winter 2007-08 Contents:
• Katrina: Days of Terror, Months of Anguish; Paintings by Rolland Golden
• The Great Ouachita River Flood of 1932
• Louisiana: Where Land Meets Water
• Through A Lens Sharply: An Interview with Michael Lewis
• MR-GO: A "miracle" mired in controversy
• New Orleans: An Autopsy |
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Fall 2007 Contents:
• New Orleans Tremé: Rooted on Traditions
• Chinatown New Orleans
• Making Groceries: A History of New Orleans Markets
• A Question of Secession
• Big Charity: History of Charity Hospital
• Terra Incognita
• Unnatural History of Cypryss Parish |
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Summer 2007 Contents:
• Katrina: Catastrophe and Catharsis
• A Louisiana Portfolio by Christopher R. Harris
• Saving the Vieux Carré by Anthony Stanonis
• The Sculptures of Lin Emery by John Kemp
• Picturing Shreveport: Photos by Burch & Bill Grabill by Robert Miciotto
• The Sugar Masters by Richard Follet
• Louisiana In Words by Joshua Clark; photo by William Greiner |
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Spring 2007 Contents:
• An Artistic Legacy: The Arts & Crafts Club of New Orleans
• From Crop Dusters to Jumbo Jets: A History of Delta Airlines
• History of Banking in New Orleans
• Backstreets of Mardi Gras photo essay
• The Baton Rouge Civil Rights Bus Boycott of 1953
• Phantom Lands: A Mystic Hymn of Louisiana
• It's All Greek to Me |
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Winter 2006-07 Contents:
• Shrink Proof City by Jed Horne.
• Printmaking in New Orleans by Jessie J. Poesch
• The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau by Martha Ward
• Xavier Gonzales and the N.O. Lakefront Airport Murals
• The Joy of Learning by Stephen Ambrose
• Last of the Red Hot Poppas by Jason Berry, photos by Philip Gould
• The Robert Tebbs Collection photo essay by Robert Tebbs
• 2006-2007 Media Catalog |
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Fall 2006 Contents:
• Rolland Golden: Journeys of a Southern Artist
• The Great Deluge: Douglas Brinkley & The Writing of History
• Conspiracy of Complicity: Development of 20th-Century NOLA
• The Red River Campaign of the Civil War 1864
• ¡Carnaval!, carnivals around the world
• Watermark of Louisiana, Le Page du Pratz Histoire de la Louisian |
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Summer 2006 Contents:
• New Orleans Nightscapes
• Nick Spitzer
• New Orleans and San Francisco’s Catastrophes
• Reperceiving New Orleans
• Hurricane Rita
• Catherine Cole |
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Spring 2006 Contents:
• Why New Orleans Matters
• A Reckoning with Rita photo essay
• Common Routes: New Orleans and St. Domingue
• The Beat of the Street photo essay
• A Brush with Disaster
• A Solvable Problem |
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Winter 05-06 Contents:
• “It’s time somebody woke us up.” an essay by Wynton Marsalis
• Missing New Orleans by Rick Gruber
• On Perilous Ground by John Magill
• Back to New Orleans by John Biguenet
• Diary of a Displaced Person
• Shreveport: Cradle of the Stars
• The Terrible and the Brave by Jason Wiese |
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Fall 2005 Contents: (Special Issue)
• After Katrina and Rita-essays by Anne Rice
• Wynton Marsalis and Richard Ford
• Tabasco: Edmund McIlhenny and the Birth of a Louisiana Pepper Sauce
• New Orleans' Coffee Connection
• No Man’s Land |
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Summer 2005 Contents:
• Michael Doucet avec BeauSoleil
• Capitol Improvements
• Sign Language
• The Heroic Struggles of Marie Rosalie Pécot
• Creole Lexicon
• Apocalypse Now
• Tall Stacks on Louisiana’s Bayous |
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Spring 2005 Contents:
• Circle Dance: The Art of John Scott
• Sojourns from the City,
• Honoring Robert Penn Warren
• Carville: Remembering Leprosy in America
• Red River Journals
• Welcome to the Fallen Paradise |
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Winter 04-05 Contents:
• The Life and Legend of Leadbelly
• Extended Horizons
• Mid-Century Modernism in Louisiana
• If Ever I Cease to Love
• Cleaning Your Gun
• Louisiana's Ancient Mounds Trail
• 74 Days a Nation |
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Fall 2004 Contents:
• A Monk’s Masterpiece
• Louisiana Landscapes
• Ramlin’ On, View Carré
• Caddo-Pine Island Oil Boom
• Lake Charles and Environs |
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Summer 2004 Contents:
• Houmas House: Sugar Palace of the Mississippi
• Preservation Hall (of fame)
• Walter Anderson's New Orleans
• George L. Vivant: Artist of the Hunt
• Gumbo Ya/Ya and Hey Pocky Way: Willie Birch's New Orleans
• An Ode to the Pig |
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Spring 2004 Contents: (Award winning editorial by Michael Sartisky)
• Jesus is My Airplane: The Life and Art of Sister Gertrude Morgan
• Majesty and Mystery: The Greek Revival Homes of Keachi
• General Grant’s Big Day
• The Little Waterway that Time Forgot
• A Rediscovered Life: The Forgotten Works of Architect Henry Howard
• Louisiana’s Culinary Palette. |
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Winter 03-04 Contents:
• In Homage to Saint Joseph
• Killing Ground
• On the Waterfront
• Josephine: Creole Empress
• Louisiana Flavorful Cock-a-Doodle-Doo
• Audubon of the West: Andrew Jackson Grayson
• The Clearing by Tim Gautreaux |
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Fall 2003 Contents:
• Nations Within
• The Saga of the Louisiana Rice
• Charting Louisiana: 500 Years of Maps (Part 2)
• The Dive
• Mardi Gras Indians: Contextual Portraits from an Insider’s Point of View
• C.C. Antoine: Louisiana Political Pioneer |
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Summer 2003 Contents:
• Charting Louisiana: 500 years of Maps
• One Big Self
• The Germans of New Orleans
• Mrs. Morrow Goes to the Catfish Festival
• Cajun Power!
• Claiborne's Rule: “To conciliate the minds of the ancient inhabitants” |
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Spring 2003 Contents:
• Voices from Ferriday
• Uniting Conveniences with Pleasure
• Shreveport and the Civil War
• Pierre Part, Louisiana: Documentary of a Bayou Village
• Louisiana: Documentary of a Bayou Village
• Cattle Ranching on the Cajun Prairie
• 2003-2004 Media Catalog |
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Winter 2002-03 Contents:
• Jefferson's America and Napoleon's France
• Lingering Evidence
• Unconscious Phenomena: The artworks of Robert Warrens
• Italy on the Mississippi
• Michalopoulos' Architexture
• The Final Hours on Isle Deniere |
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Fall 2002 Contents:
• Evolving Styles: Architecture of the French Quarter (Part 2)
• Raised to the Trade: Creole Building Arts of New Orleans
• “For Those Who Have No Theater”
• War Stories
• Preservation in Paint
• Louisiana Portraits |
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Summer 2002 Contents:
• Natchitoches and Louisiana’s Timeless Cane River
• Bearing Witness in Tremé: Saint Augustine Church
• Vieux Carre Impressions
• The Influence of Culture: Architecture of the French Quarter (Part 1 of 2)
• Cultural Corridors
• No Place, Louisiana |
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Spring 2002 Contents:
• The imagination to look backward
• The Last Days of Bonnie & Clyde
• Louisiana's Music Makers
• Mirror Images
• Behind the Scenes at Carnival
• 2002-2003 Media Catalog |
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Winter 2001 Contents:
• Cultural Icons: The Louisiana Paintings of Francis Pavy
• Adventures in Architecture: The Historic American Buildings Survey in Louisiana
• Audubon’s Watch
• Good Grief: New Orleans Jazz Funerals
• Swinging at the Blue Moon
• The Importance of Being Ernie |
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Fall 2001 Contents:
• The Louisiana Homefront during WWII
• Le jour des morts: A day dedicated to the deceased
• Oblivion's Blight: New Orleans' Girod Street Cemetery
• A Sense of Place, A Sense of Presence
• The Chase Is On
• Abolitionist Priest in Dixie |
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Summer 2001 Contents:
• Clearing the Red River
• The Gardens of New Orleans: Exquisite Excess
• A New Home for the LEH
• Myths About Creole Culture
• Lafcadio Hearn: The Man Who Invented New Orleans
• Independent Artist: The Louisiana Legacy of Will Henry Stevens |
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Spring 2001 Contents:
• Painting By Heart: The Art of Clementine Hunter
• Louisian Ya-Ya: The Story of Collected Voices
• Home Away from Home
• The Benign Schizophrenia of America
• Perspectives on the City
• Standing Ground |
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Winter '00-01 Contents:
• Culture of Agriculture
• Henry Casselli: Master of the American Watercolor
• Testing Our Humanity
• Agamemnon Among the Bunnies
• The Mexico Louisiana Creole Connection
• Complicity
• St. James Parish Plantations |
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Fall 2000 Contents:
• Louisiana Faces
• Marie Adrien Persac: Louisiana Painter
• FDR’s PWA in LA
• Troubled Memory
• A Tour of the Acadian Country
• Yellow Fever and the Louisiana-Mississippi War of 1905
• Lost New Orleans |
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Summer 2000 Contents:
• A Brush Most Modern
• The Reposed
• The Vietnamese in Louisiana
• Surreal Louisiana
• Hermann-Grima House
• The Runaway
• Louisiana Composers: Then and Now |
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Spring 2000 Contents:
• Why the Moviegoer is not a Movie
• Starring New Orleans: A City in Film
• The Amistad Collection
• Always a River
• To Drink from a Glacier
• Rain and Mosquitoes
• 2000 Media Catalog |
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Winter 1999-2000 Contents:
• Richard Sexton’s River Road
• In A New Light
• In The Spirit
• Haunted Wharves: The Paintings of Simon Gunning
• New Orleans Then and Now
• Castles and Plantations
• Roughnecks |
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Fall 1999 Contents:
• Where Edges Blur
• That Joker Can Play!
• The Majesty of the French Quarter
• Satire Engraved
• “...lucky to have found this place.”
• Talking by the River
• Waiting for a Boat |
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Summer 1999 Contents:
• Roots and Routes
• Operatic Odyssey
• What Louisiana Architecture Owes to Hispañola (and what it does not)
• The Adversarial System
• Entrance of the Mississippi
• A Day in the Life of Poverty Point
• Images of Shreveport
• Rodeo Parole |
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Spring 1999 Contents:
• Cast In His Own Mold: Sculptor Enrique Alferez
• Images of France
• Degas and New Orleans
• When Slaves Died
• The Farm
• Inspirations
• Louisiana’s Literacy Legacy
• Discovering the Mississippi’s Mouth
• A Life for a Life |
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Winter 1999 Contents:
• A Sense of Place: Photographer Josephine Sacabo
• Accordion at the Crossroads
• Touchstones of Authenticity: A Louisiana Folk Art Collection
• Arna Bontemps’ Search for Identity
• The Mysteries of Watson Break
• Walking Through Stardust
• Sunset Limited |
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Fall 1998 Contents:
• In Defiance of Genre: Brenda Marie Osbey
• Child Labor in the New South: The Photographs of Lewis Hine
• One Family’s Mardi Gras
• Churches: The Missing Link in Jazz History
• Managing Ignatius
• Cultural Corridors: Discovering Jewish Heritage Along the Mississippi River |
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Summer 1998 Contents:
• Epiphany of the Mundane
• The Magical Realism of Debbie Fleming Caffrey
• Dancing to the Colors of Rhythm
• Marshall Harvey Twitchell and Red River Parish
• Blood Feud
• Bayou Triste. |
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Spring 1998 Contents:
• Publicly Speaking: The Civic Art of Conrad Albrizio
• Images from the Isle: The People and Traditions of Cane River
• The Quilts from Cane River: Vignettes of Domestic Life
• Mardi Gras Indians and Tootie Montana
• Good For What Ails You
• Marshland Brace |
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Winter 1997 Contents:
• New Deal Art in Louisiana
• Elysium: A Gathering of Souls
• Interview with John Gregory Brown
• Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou
• Congo Square: La Place Publique
• The Heart of Wildness |
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Fall 1997 Contents:
• Haunter of Ruins
• French Indochina Through the Camera’s Eye
• The Baroness Pontalba
• A Life in Biography
• Freedom Ride
• Swapping Stories |
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Summer 1997 Contents:
• State Fare
• See All About It!
• To Garden in Louisiana,Which Here is Half of Life
• Louisiana Highway 1
• Southern Journey
• Lords of Misrule |
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Spring 1997 Contents:
• Manchac Swamp: Louisiana’s Undiscovered Wilderness
• YA/YA!
• Sidney Bechet: The Triumph of a New Orleans Artist in Europe
• Storyville
• The Love We Most Cherish |
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Winter 1996 Contents:
• Fire On The River
• Louisiana People and Places: Photography by Fonville Winans
• The Noble and the Savage
• Bygone Scenes of the Bayou: The Paintings of France Folse
• When Plessy Met Ferguson |
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Fall 1996 Contents:
• Memory and Vision: The Paintings of Sarah Albritton
• Sacred and Profane: The Taboo Collection of Jean Despujols
• Vote For Me
• The Courtship of Merlin LeBlanc |
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Summer 1996 Contents:
• Discovering Despujols
• Place of Invention: An Interview with Richard Ford
• Brownsville
• The Laura Simon Nelson Collection of Louisiana Art
• Coming Up Hard in New Orleans |
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Spring 1996 Contents:
• Streetcar Stories
• Evolving Art: Memory, Place and Imagination; An Interview with Keith Sonnier
• Jazz Funerals
• The Great Sea |
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Winter 1995 Contents:
• Louisiana Music Legends
• Vietnam Testimony: Two Veterans Recount Their Roles at My Lai
• Fading Textures
• A River Runs Through New Orleans
• 1996 Media Catalog |
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Fall 1995 Contents:
• Writing About Race in Difficult Times: An Interview with Ernest Gaines
• Island of Saints and Souls
• Shreveport & Bossier City
• Leafy Anderson: Seed Carrier of Black Hawk’s Memory
• Raoul’s Silver Song |
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Summer 1995 Contents:
• On Capitol Grounds
• Holocaust Survivors: Portraits and Conversations
• Cajun and Creole Folktales
• Buying Rats
• At Mr. Dick THompson’s |
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Spring 1995 Contents:
• Plantations Along the River: The Paintings of Father Paret
• Church of Soul: Portraits of Louisiana Culture
• Haunted Waters, Fragile Lands
• Endurance and Celebration
• Of, For, and By the People |
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Winter 1994 Contents:
• Clyde Connell: Abstracting the Essence
• The Late Paintings of Giverny by Claude Monet
• An American Utopia
• Love and Abuse: Families in Colonial Louisiana
• Father Night |
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Fall 1994 Contents:
• Carry Me Home
• The Creole Tradition
• A Prized Public Scholar: Peggy Prenshaw
• Hidden Nation
• The Fallen Bridge |
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Summer 1994 Contents:
• Slave Economy & Material Culture
• Palette and Form
• Art That Wraps the Soul: An Interview with John Scott
• The Nun and the Founding
• The World According to Duke |
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Spring 1994 Contents:
• The Battle of Liberty Place
• Music from the Piney Woods
• Framing a Century
• Louisiana Gothic: Recollections of the Thirties
• A Tribute: Al Rose
• Hair-Trigger Pencil Lines |
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Winter 1993 Contents:
• Kate Chopin’s North Louisiana Awakening
• Through the Glass Darkly
• Interview with Anne Rice
• Byrd’s Eye View
• Perpetual Hope
• The Divine Call |
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Fall 1993 Contents:
• A Pulitzer Portrait: Robert Olen Butler
• Passionate Visions: Southern Self-Taught Artists
• Banana Republic
• Strawberry Culture
• Glass House |
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Summer 1993 Contents:
• Jazzman Danny Barker
• The Birth of Rhythm and Blues
• Seeing Us: Ruston, Louisiana at Work
• Telling Tales
• Porch Talk
• What We Write,Why We Write, and Who Cares |
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Spring 1993 Contents:
• Ernest G. Gaines: A Life in Words
• Betting on a Man
• A Certain Slant of Light
• Casting a Long Shadow
• Giving Offense
• A Spicy Tail: The Cultural History of Crawfish |
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Winter 1992 Contents:
• John McCrady’s Southern Scene
• Dance With a Chicken
• Africans in Colonial Louisiana
• Taking Care of Linnie
• 1993 Media Catalog |
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Fall 1992 Contents:
• Buffalo Bill and the Mardi Gras Indians
• The Photographs of Elemore Morgan
• Letters From My Father
• On the Edge of Civilization
• Dancing the Shrimp |
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Summer 1992 Contents:
• A Tribute: Dewey Balfa
• Cajun Music & Zydeco
• Louisiana Boys: Raised on Politics
• Lineman and the Law
• Laissez les bons temps rouler |
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Spring 1992 Contents:
• Metropolis in Shades of Black & White
• Haitian Art, Haitian Legacy
• To Censor or Not to Censor
• For Love and Curiosity
• Humanist for All Seasons |
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Winter 1991 Contents:
• Musical Notes
• Singing From Direct Experience
• To Sing and Never Tire
• Evolution of a Cultural Tradition |
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Fall 1991 Contents:
• Reflections on Education
• Heels Over Head in Love
• All the World’s a Poem |
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Summer 1991 Contents:
• Folklife and Louisiana Photography
• Lifelines of a Woods Cowboy
• Family Literacy
• Following Your Bliss |
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Spring 1991 Contents:
• Sarah Morgan’s Civil War
• Decision at M’sieur Chalmette’s
• Expanding the Humanities in Louisiana
• Vacations in the Classroom
• Humanities as Daily Life |
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Winter 1990 Contents:
• Beyond Louisiana Story
• A Producer’s Notebook
• Ike: The Movie
• Documenting Politics Through Film
• Opening Doors
• Humanities Perspectives |
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Fall 1990 Contents:
• SPECIAL ISSUE: Politics of Culture
• New Orleans Hidden Carnival
• Thoughts From Lost Cove and Borneo
• Louisiana Swing |
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Summer 1990 Contents:
• Inseparable Partners
• Literacy and Sharing
• Literacy Legacies and Lessons
• A Passion for TeachingT |
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Spring 1990 Contents:
• The Autobiography of Ernest Gaines
• A Conversation with Lynne Cheney
• The Creole Controversy
• Improving the Quality of Humanities Education in Louisiana
• Revisiting America Through the Library |