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From Cameo to Close-up: Louisiana in Film
Storyville: Madams and Music
Enigmatic Stream: Industrial Landscapes of the Lower Mississippi River
Money, Money, Money!: Currency Holdings from The Historic New Orleans Collection
Andrew Jackson: Hero of New Orleans
French Quarter Life: People and Places in the Vieux Carré
New Orleans Medley: Sounds of the City
Shout, Sister, Shout! The Boswell Sisters of New Orleans
Goods of Every Description: Shopping in New Orleans, 1825–1925
Purchased Lives: New Orleans and the Domestic Slave Trade
Voices of Progress: Twenty Women Who Changed New Orleans
From Cameo to Close-up: Louisiana in Film
Storyville: Madams and Music
Enigmatic Stream: Industrial Landscapes of the Lower Mississippi River
Money, Money, Money!: Currency Holdings from The Historic New Orleans Collection
Andrew Jackson: Hero of New Orleans
French Quarter Life: People and Places in the Vieux Carré
New Orleans Medley: Sounds of the City
Shout, Sister, Shout! The Boswell Sisters of New Orleans
Goods of Every Description: Shopping in New Orleans, 1825–1925
Purchased Lives: New Orleans and the Domestic Slave Trade
Voices of Progress: Twenty Women Who Changed New Orleans

 

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History from Home: Explore THNOC's digital offerings
History from Home: Explore THNOC's digital offerings

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In 1892, a formerly enslaved woman named Caroline Flowers placed this advertisement in the “Lost Friends” column of the Southwestern Christian Advocate. In the years after the Civil War, Flowers was one of many who wrote their stories in the column in hopes of finding loved ones lost during slavery. She had a mother, a stepfather, and nine siblings who had been separated and sold throughout Louisiana and Mississippi. - Follow our link in profile where we explore Flowers’s story and #THNOC’s “Lost Friends” database, which includes more than 2500 of these ads. A unique genealogical project and bestselling novel reveal just a couple of the ways in which these stories, and the words of the “Lost Friends,” remain alive today. #lostfriends #africanamericanhistory #visitthnoc “King Creole” climbs into the dark underbelly of 1950s Bourbon Street, with occasional breaks for characteristically raucous musical numbers by Elvis Prelsey. Sounds like a perfect title for another #NolaMovieNight, our streaming group rewatch of the #Nola filmography. Join us at 7 p.m. sharp on Sunday, June 7. Follow the History From Home link in our bio for all the details. A statement from THNOC President and CEO Daniel Hammer. ST. BERNARD: The Fairview Baptist Church is an important landmark in the history of New Orleans’s brass band tradition (swipe to see a video of Danny Barker teaching children how to second line in the Brulatour Courtyard). #NolaNeighborhoodCurators contributor @sociosound had this to say about the St. Bernard Avenue building: - “Just a short walk from my front door on St. Bernard, the Fairview Baptist Church always immediately puts Dirty Dozen’s rendition of “I’ll Fly Away” in my head. In 1970 Danny Barker organized the Fairview Baptist Church Band for young boys in order to teach them the traditions. Many of its members eventually became the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. So many greats played in this place: The Marsalis brothers, Dr. Michael White, the Barbarins, Herlin Riley, Tuba Fats - so many.” - Take a walk through your neighborhood, and share the history that you see. Look around. Look up. Look down. History is all around us in New Orleans. Give us a window into your area with #NolaNeighborhoodCurators! #neighborhoodhistory #nolaneighborhoods #visitthnoc

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Virtual conversation with author Lisa Wingate on how a THNOC database inspired a NYT bestseller
"King Creole" is next up for #NolaMovieNight on June 7
Vote for your favorite local movie in New Orleans Bracket Bash
Virtual conversation with author Lisa Wingate on how a THNOC database inspired a NYT bestseller
"King Creole" is next up for #NolaMovieNight on June 7
Vote for your favorite local movie in New Orleans Bracket Bash

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Slavery’s “Lost Friends” continue to speak. Are we listening?
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