Since the founding of New Orleans, women have played an active role in shaping the city.
Players Ella & Louie Tribute Band
Join us Friday, September 15, for the first show of the 2017 fall Concerts in the Courtyard series. The Players Ella & Louie Tribute Band will take the stage at 6 p.m.
The Original Creole Orchestra; 1912; The Charles L. Franck Studio Collection at The Historic New Orleans Collection, 1979.89.7339
During in the 1930s and ‘40s, a number of jazz studies associated an exodus of jazz musicians from New Orleans with the closing of the Storyville red-light district in November 1917.
Pretty Baby movie poster; 1978; offset lithography; by Paramount Pictures; The Historic New Orleans Collection, 2014.0506.95
Alecia Long, the Paul and Nancy Murrill Professor of History at LSU, will lead a discussion and screening of the controversial 1978 film Pretty Baby, which centers on a 12-year-old prostitute named Violet (Brooke Shields) living in Storyv
Sherrie Tucker
In this talk, Sherrie Tucker, professor of American Studies at University of Kansas, will share her research for the New Orleans Jazz National Historic Park on the women jazz musicians who played in and out of the District in the early days of New
Gwen Thompkins
Journalist Gwen Thompkins, host of public radio’s "Music Inside Out" and a contributor to the new edition of Danny Barker’s A Life in Jazz (The Historic New Orleans Collection
The 2017 New Orleans Antiques Forum will examine the artistry and influence of those individuals whose hands crafted the decorative arts so cherished in the South.