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Indigenous people and Native Americans The French colonial period The Spanish colonial period The slave trade Louisiana Purchase The Civil War Reconstruction Civil rights & suffrage Carnival Music Theater & film Military conflicts Gender & sexuality Visual art Industry & innovation Carribean connections Sports Natural disasters Cajuns Food Tennessee Williams Black history Women's history Maps Literature Miscellaneous
Indigenous people and Native Americans
Choctaw women, THNOC
How Native and non-Native Louisiana women found power in basketry, podcast episode
In New Orleans, before baseball, football, or soccer, there was raquette, podcast episode
John Barbry of the Tunica-Biloxi Nation, podcast episode
New Orleans: 300 // Bulbancha: 3000, podcast episode
Pushed to the coast by man, Indigenous people in southeastern Louisiana feel nature's push back, First Draft post
The French colonial period
A (new) world of cartography: maps at The Historic New Orleans Collection, video
Building a city: the founding of New Orleans, lesson plan (available in French and English)
Copycat cartography: Soupart's original map of the Gulf Coast, video
Danse Macabre, episode 4: The Creole revolt and the singing monk, video
Education and culture in Louisiana during the French colonial period, lesson plan
Founding New Orleans, the vagabond city, podcast episode
Louisiana and the French colonial period, lesson plan
Marie Grissot: The midwife who battled Bienville in Louisiana's earliest days, First Draft post
New Orleans, the founding era: Growth of the city from 1718 to 1755, lesson plan
New Orleans, the founding era: Pineapple Plan, video
The cemetery under the French Quarter, podcast episode
What this waffle iron look-alike tells us about female agency and spirituality in colonial New Orleans, First Draft post
La Salle claims the Mississippi Valley for France, THNOC.
The Spanish colonial period
Spanish New Orleans and the Caribbean: Teacher's Guide, lesson plan
La Nueva Orleans y el Caribe españoles: Guía para profesores, lesson plan (in Spanish)
A (new) world of cartography: Maps at The Historic New Orleans Collection, video
Danse Macabre, episode 4: The Creole revolt and the singing monk, video
New Orleans and the Spanish world, lesson plan
Spanish colonial Louisiana: Isleños and Malagueños, lesson plan
Spanish colonial Louisiana: Isleños and Malagueños, presentation
The cemetery under the French Quarter, podcast episode
The woman behind New Orleans's famous Pobtalba buildings, First Draft post
The slave trade
An auction of enslaved people, THNOC.
"Lost Friends" ads reveal the heartbreak of family separation during slavery, First Draft post
Arriving Africans and a changing New Orleans, podcast episode
From Congo Square to Europe—and back: Music of the African disapora in New Orleans, First Draft post
Georgetown University sold 272 enslaved people to Louisiana: The descendants speak (part I), podcast episode
Georgetown University sold 272 enslaved people to Louisiana: The descendants speak (part II), podcast episode
Identity, self-expression, and clashes within the enslaved communities of colonial Louisiana, podcast episode
More than a runaway: Maroons in Louisiana, podcast episode
New Orleans, the founding era: Growth of the city from 1718 to 1755, lesson plan
Purchased lives, annotated resource set
Purchased lives: New Orleans and the domestic slave trade, virtual exhibition
Purchased lives: torn apart and stitched back together, lesson plan
Rashauna Johnson on slavery's metropolis, podcast episode
Runnin' and runnin' in Louisiana: The Underground Railroad, presentation and resource set
Sighting the sites of the New Orleans slave trade, podcast episode
Slavery in early American New Orleans, worksheet
Solidarity and revolt aboard the slave ship Creole, podcast episode
To be sold: The American slave trade from Virginia to New Orleans, symposium
The Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase, lesson plan
Confederate uniforms, THNOC.
The Civil War
In Civil War New Orleans, Black, French-speaking poets fought for civil rights, First Draft post
New Orleans during the Civil War, lesson plan
On Thanksgiving 1860, a New Orleans pastor's sermon defending slavery rallied the seccessionist movement, First Draft post
The Civil War brought the rise of a new Black activism in New Orleans, First Draft post
Three current-day poets respond to Afro-Creole protest poetry of the 1860s, First Draft post
Reconstruction
Oscar Dunn, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana, THNOC.
"For God's sake, don't shoot us!": Three views of the Mechanics' Institute massacre, First Draft post
1860s field reports reveal the hardships in establishing African American education, First Draft post
A Black vice president in 1872? Louisiana's Oscar Dunn could have been, thanks to his relationship with Ulysses S. Grant, First Draft post
An absolute massacre: The 1866 riot at the Mechanics' Institute, podcast episode
Black voters, white supremacists, and voter suppression in Louisiana's 1868 presidential election, First Draft post
How the forgotten story of Oscar Dunn was reconstructed using archival sources and comic flair, First Draft post with video
In 1860s New Orleans, Black activists fought—and died—for the right to vote, First Draft post
Louisiana and New Orleans during Reconstruction, lesson plan
Oscar Dunn and the New Orleans monument that never happened, podcast episode
Political poisoning? The mysterious death of America's first Black lietenant governor, Oscar Dunn, First Draft post
Protests, politics, and police chase: The fight to segregate streetcars in 1867, First Draft post
Reconstruction in New Orleans, annotated resource set
The Great New Orleans Kidnapping case, podcast episode
Civil rights and suffrage
"For God's sake, don't shoot us!": Three views of the Mechanics' Institute massacre, First Draft post
"Yet she is advancing": New Orleans Women and the right to vote, 1878–1970, virtual exhibition
1860s field reports reveal the hardships in establishing African American education, First Draft post
A Black vice president in 1872? Louisiana's Oscar Dunn could have been, thanks to his relationship with Ulysses S. Grant, First Draft post
Amid hate and division, Christmas cards flowed to the girls who desegregated New Orleans schools, First Draft post
An absolute massacre: The 1866 riot at the Mechanics' Institute, podcast episode
Bearing witness through poetry: how poetry functions as a historical archive and means of protest, lesson plan
Black voters, white supremacists, and voter suppression in Louisiana's 1868 presidential election, First Draft post
Fight for five: The flambeaux strike of 1946, podcast episode
Home Plessy and the Black activists who fought segregation all the way to the Supreme Court, First Draft post
How the forgotten story of Oscar Dunn was reconstructed using archival sources and comic flair, First Draft post with video
In 1860s New Orleans, Black activists fought—and died—for the right to vote, First Draft post
In Civil War New Orleans, Black, French-speaking poets fought for civil rights, First Draft post
In Jim Crow New Orleans, Sylvanie Williams fought for the rights of African American women, First Draft post
Louisiana and New Orleans during Reconstruction, lesson plan
NOLA Resistance: lesson plan
NOLA Resistance oral history project: Public school integration, video
NOLA Resisstance oral history project: The Freedom Rides, video
Oscar Dunn and the New Orleans monument that never happened, podcast episode
Political poisoning? The mysterious death of America's first Black lietenant governor, Oscar Dunn, First Draft post
Protests, politics, and police chase: the fight to segregate streetcars in 1867, First Draft post
Purchased lives: torn apart and stitched back together, lesson plan
Rien Fertel on flambeaux, podcast episode
Ruby Bridges, lesson plan
Runnin' and runnin' in Louisiana: The Underground Railroad, presentation and resource set
Skift's Rafat Ali on civil rights tourism, podcast episode
The activist group that used peaceful protests to advance civil rights in New Orleans, First Draft post
The Civil War brought the rise of a new Black activism in New Orleans, First Draft post
The integration of Audubon Park's pool and the committee that made it happen, First Draft post
The New Orleans woman who fought the longest court batlle in U.S. history, First Draft post
The secret basketball game that desegregated Louisiana high school sports, podcast episode
The Storyville madam who challenege Jim Crow—and won, First Draft post
The women who fought for and against the ERA: Part I, podcast episode
The women who fought for and against the ERA: Part II, podcast episode
Three current-day poets respond to Afro-Creole protest poetry of the 1860s, First Draft post
Virtual Field Trip: Civil Rights pioneer Leona Tate, video
What role did Louisianans play in the women's suffrage movement?, First Draft post
Why the 19th Amendment didn't end the struggle for voting rights in New Orleans, First Draft post
Carnival
14 eye-catching house floats—and why they're historically significant, First Draft post
Bruce Sunpie Barnes on making a Skull and Bone Gang skeleton suit, video
Carnival canceled? 14 years in history when parades didn't roll, First Draft post
Fight for five: The flambeaux strike of 1946, podcast episode
Krewe FAQ: Inside New Orleans's secretive Carnival organizations and their parades, First Draft post
Looking at the obscure—and sometimes disturbing—lore from the "Golden Age of Carnival," First Draft post
1971 Red parade, THNOC.
Made by hand: The history and artistry of Rex floats, video
New Orleans's Black debutante tradition defined, First Draft post
Remembered as the "father of the Mardi Gras doubloon," H. Alvin Sharpe was much more, First Draft post
Rien Fertel on flambeaux, podcast episode
The breadth of Carnival artistry in nine photographs, First Draft post
The Children of Yuga: A brief history of the birth of Gay Carnival, video
The history of New Orleans's North Side Skull and Bone Gang, video
The lost history of Gay Carnival, podcast episode
Throw me somethin' mister! The history behind New Orleans Mardi Gras throws, First Draft post
Social justice and environmental justice
A pandemic of pigs? Feral hogs threatening cities from New Orleans to Hong Kong, First Draft post
Desire, Louisiana, podcast episode
Enigmatic stream: Industrial landscapes of the lower Mississippi River, virtual exhibition
Identity theft: A rare painting damaged, a story half-told, and a reckoning about bias in art stewardship, First Draft post
Music
A Prospect.5 exhibition delves into the story of the "Mexican Band" that captivated 1884 New Orleans, First Draft post
From the 19th century to the nine-nine: How Mannie Fresh, Juvenile, and Gottschalk brought New Orleans music to the world, 150 year apart, First Draft post
Dancing in the Streets: Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs of New Orleans, virtual exhibition
Edmond Dédé: The Classical composer you've never heard of, podcast episode
Exploring primary sources: Music in New Orleans, lesson plan
From Congo Square to Europe—and back: Music of the African disapora in New Orleans, First Draft post
How brass bands became a New Orleans tradition—picking up new sounds along the way, First Draft post
A 1930s publicity photo of Louis Armstrong, THNOC.
Jelly Roll Morton and jazz, lesson plan
Music Makers: the sound of the second line explained, First Draft post
New Orleans medley: Sounds of the city, virtual exhibition
Part four: The beat goes on / following the beat on the street, video
Part one: Roots and rhythms / following the beat on the street, video
Part three: A new groove / following the beat on the street, video
Part two: A tradition established / following the beat on the street, video
Shout, sister, shout!: The Boswell Sisters of New Orleans, virtual exhibition
Take a tour of Bourbon Street's music scene of the 1950s, First Draft post
The legendary Lasties, podcast episode
The Mexican band, podcast episode
The rules of photographing second lines, according to a club member, a lawyer, and photographers, First Draft post
Video: Four defining eras in the history of New Orleans brass band music, First Draft
What do you know about Economy Hall? The Jazz Fest tent's namesake was once the "Carnegie Hall of Jazz," First Draft post
Where do second lines come from? The origins go back more than 200 years, First Draft post
Theater and film
Benh Zeitlin recalls when his Louisiana-made Beasts of the Southern Wild charmed the film world, First Draft post
From cameo to close-up: Louisiana in film, virtual exhibit
How "A Streetcar Named Desire" traveled beyond Elysian Fields to the entire world, First Draft post
Local actors reveal the power of "A Streetcar Named Desire", First Draft post
New Orleans in film and television, presentation
Pulling back the curtain on "A Streetcar Named Desire," and the work of Tennessee Williams, First Draft post
These 10 historic pieces tell the story behind "A Streetcar Named Desire," First Draft post
Military conflicts
General Farragut's fleets passing near New Orleans during the Civil War, THNOC.
13 ways World War I touched New Orleans, First Draft post
Andrew Jackson: Hero of New Orleans, virtual exhibition
Both sides of the battle: British and American maps in the Battle of New Orleans, video
Camp Algiers, New Orleans's forgotten WWII internment camp, part I, podcast episode
Camp Algiers, New Orleans's forgotten WWII internment camp, part II, podcast episode
Danse Macabre, episode 3: Battlefield butchery, video
In 1942, German submarines brought WWII to Louisiana's shores, First Draft post
In the 1850s, Narciso López launched illegal Cuban invasions from New Orleans, First Draft post
Look closely for the tiny stories hidden in Louisiana's historic maps, First Draft post with video
New Orleans during the Civil War, lesson plan
The Battle of new Orleans from two points of view: a scholar and an eyewitness, lesson plan
Victory in the backyard: War gardens in World War I, lesson plan
Gender and sexuality
Arson at the UpStairs Lounge, podcast episode
Nine ways that blue books sold a fantasy of New Orleans's Storyville district, First Draft post
Storyville: Madams and music, virtual exhibition
The Children of Yuga: A brief history of the birth of Gay Carnival, video
The lost history of Gay Carnival, podcast episode
The Storyville madam who challenege Jim Crow—and won, First Draft post
Visual art
11 stories that reveal how Enrique Alférez sculpted the landscape of New Orleans, First Draft post
Art of the city: Postmodern to Post-Katrina, lesson plan
Bruce Sunpie Barnes on making a Skull and Bone Gang skeleton suit, video
Cajun document: Acadiana, 1973-74, virtual exhibition
Creole world: Photographs of New Orleans and the Latin Caribbean sphere, lesson plan
Enigmatic stream: Industrial landscapes of the lower Mississippi River, virtual exhibition
From daguerreotype to digital, virtual exhibition
Identity theft: A rare painting damaged, a story half-told, and a reckoning about bias in art stewardship, First Draft post
In 14 paintings, Rolland Golden captured the anguish and hope of life after Katrina, First Draft post
Made by hand: The history and artistry of Rex floats, video
One writer's journey into the circle of famed New Orleans artist John Clemmer, First Draft post
The rules of photographing second lines, according to a club member, a lawyer, and photographers, First Draft post
Video tour of Cajun Document: Acadiana 1973-74, photographs by Douglas Baz and Charles H. Traub, video
Industry and innovation
Watercolor painting of a Gulf of Mexico oil rig, THNOC.
A fair to remember: The World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans, lesson plan
Bananas, quarantines, and the octopus: United Fruit Company's PR stunt in Central America, First Draft post
Enigmatic stream: Industrial landscapes of the lower Mississippi River, virtual exhibition
From daguerreotype to digital, virtual exhibition
How nutria took over Louisiana, and what locals have done to stop them, First Draft post
How the Gulf Coast boosted the first men to the moon, First Draft post
In the late 1800s, devastating yellow fever epidemics forced New Orleans to confront its sanitation problem, First Draft post
NOLA vs. Nature: Building the Industrial Canal, podcast episode
NOLA vs. Nature: The blessing and the curse of the wood screw pump, podcast episode
Skift's Rafat Ali on civil rights tourism, podcast episode
The free man of color whose invention revolutionized the sugar industry, First Draft post
The little company that could: How a New Orleans immigrant created a global dried shrimp business, podcast episode
The pumps that built (and sank) the city of the New Orleans, First Draft post
The self-educated engineer who helped tame the Mississippi River, First Draft post
Caribbean connections
Bananas, quarantines, and the octopus: United Fruit Company's PR stunt in Central America, First Draft post
Creole world: Photographs of New Orleans and the Latin Caribbean sphere, lesson plan
Haiti and New Orleans: Is the feeling mutual?, podcast episode
Home away from home: A Haitian in exile finds New Orleans, podcast episode
In the 1850s, Narciso López launched illegal Cuban invasions from New Orleans, First Draft post
Spanish New Orleans and the Caribbean: Teacher's Guide, lesson plan
Sports
Playing basketball in a New Orleans drainage canal, THNOC.
Before the Superdome, Tulane Stadium hosted the city's—and country's—biggest events, First Draft post
CHA-CHING: How a young Seth Green gave Saints fans a new cheer, First Draft post
Crescent City sport, interactive lesson plan
Five unsung sports stories from New Orleans history, First Draft post
From slavery to sports stardom: Abe Hawkins's rise from a Louisiana plantation to horse-racing fame, First Draft post
From the Pinchbacks to the Baby Cakes: 150 years of baseball in New Orleans, First Draft post
How the Germans brought gymnastics to New Orleans, podcast episode
In New Orleans, before baseball, football, or soccer, there was raquette, podcast episode
In the mid-19th century, vicious animal combat drew thousands to Algiers, podcasst episode
The secret basketball game that desegregated Louisiana high school sports, podcast episode
Tulane Stadium through the years, video
Natural disasters
"Desperation," from Rolland Golden's Katrina series, THNOC.
Art of the City: Postmodern to Post-Katrina, lesson plan
How does Ida stand out in Louisiana's long history of hurricanes? One climatologist offers perspective, First Draft post
In 14 paintings, Rolland Golden captured the anguish and hope of life after Katrina, First Draft post
NOLA vs Nature: The other biggest flood in New Orleans history, podcast episode
Pushed to the coast by man, Indigenous people in southeastern Louisiana feel nature's push back, First Draft post
Was an 1812 hurricane the worst storm to ever hit New Orleans?, First Draft post
Cajuns
A 1970s portrait of a Cajun woman, THNOC.
A taste of Creole and Cajun cuisine in 10 stories, First Draft post
Cajun document: Acadiana, 1973-74, virtual exhibition
Video tour of Cajun document: Acadiana 1973-74, photographs by Douglas Baz and Charles H. Traub, video
What does it mean to be Cajun? 12 stories to understand this identity, First Draft post
What does it mean to be Cajun? The story behind the identity, First Draft post
What's the difference between Cajun and Creole—or is there one?, First Draft post
Food
A taste of Creole and Cajun cuisine in 10 stories, First Draft post
Leah Chase—Vieux Carré memoir oral history project, video
Poppy Tooker remembers Leah Chase with a recipt, a story, and the "craziest dream," First Draft post
The little company that could: How a New Orleans immigrant created a global dried shrimp business, podcast episode
Tennessee Williams
How "A Streetcar Name Desire" traveled beyond Elysian Fields to the entire world, First Draft post
Local actors reveal the power of "A Streetcar Named Desire", First Draft post
Pulling back the curtain on "A Streetcar Named Desire," and the work of Tennessee Williams, First Draft post
These 10 historic pieces tell the story behind "A Streetcar Named Desire," First Draft post
Where Tennessee Williams first lived in New Orleans—History of 722 Toulouse Street, video
Black history
"Lost Friends" ads reveal the heartbreak of family separation during slavery, First Draft post
"For God's sake, don't shoot us!": Three views of the Mechanics' Institute massacre, First Draft post
1860s field reports reveal the hardships in establishing African American education, First Draft post
A Black vice president in 1872? Louisiana's Oscar Dunn could have been, thanks to his relationship with Ulysses S. Grant, First Draft post
Amid hate and division, Christmas cards flowed to the girls who desegregated New Orleans schools, First Draft post
An absolute massacre: The 1866 riot at the Mechanics' Institute, podcast episode
Arriving Africans and a changing New Orleans, podcast episode
Black voters, white supremacists, and voter suppression in Louisiana's 1868 presidential election, First Draft post
Bruce Sunpie Barnes on making a Skull and Bone Gang skeleton suit, video
Fight for five: The flambeaux strike of 1946, podcast episode
From Congo Square to Europe—and back: Music of the African disapora in New Orleans, First Draft post
Georgetown University sold 272 enslaved people to Louisiana: The descendants speak (part I), podcast episode
Georgetown University sold 272 enslaved people to Louisiana: The descendants speak (part II), podcast episode
"The American Negro Story," handpainted tiles depicting the history of Black people in the United States, THNOC.
Henriette Delille and the Sisters of the Holy Family, podcast episode
Homer Plessy and the Black activists who fought segregation all the way to the Supreme Court, First Draft post
How the forgotten story of Oscar Dunn was reconstructed using archival sources and comic flair, First Draft post with video
Identity theft: A rare painting damaged, a story half-told, and a reckoning about bias in art stewardship, First Draft post
Identity, self-expression, and clashes within the enslaved communities of colonial Louisiana, podcast episode
In 1860s New Orleans, Black activists fought—and died—for the right to vote, First Draft post
In Civil War New Orleans, Black, French-speaking poets fought for civil rights, First Draft post
In Jim Crow New Orleans, Sylvanie Williams fought for the rights of African American women, First Draft post
In New Orleans, before baseball, football, or soccer, there was raquette, podcast episode
Louisiana and New Orleans during Reconstruction, lesson plan
New Orleans, the Founding Era: Growth of the city from 1718 to 1755, lesson plan
New Orleans's Black debutante tradition defined, First Draft post
NOLA Resistance: lesson plan
NOLA Resistance oral history project: Public school integration, video
NOLA Resisstance oral history project: The Freedom Rides, video
Oscar Dunn and the New Orleans monument that never happened, podcast episode
Political poisoning? The mysterious death of America's first Black lietenant governor, Oscar Dunn, First Draft post
Poppy Tooker remembers Leah Chase with a recipt, a story, and the "craziest dream," First Draft post
Protests, politics, and police chase: The fight to segregate streetcars in 1867, First Draft post
Purchased lives, annotated resource set
Purchased lives: New Orleans and the domestic slave trade, virtual exhibition
Purchased lives: Torn apart and stitched back together, lesson plan
Rashauna Johnson on slavery's metropolis, podcast episode
Revealing the stories of African American artifacts from the pre-Civil War Gulf South, First Draft post
Rien Fertel on flambeaux, podcast episode
Ruby Bridges, lesson plan
Runnin' and runnin' in Louisiana: The Underground Railroad, presentation and resource set
Sighting the sites of the New Orleans slave trade, podcast episode
Skift's Rafat Ali on civil rights tourism, podcast episode
Slavery in early American New Orleans, worksheet
Solidarity and revolt aboard the slave ship Creole, podcast episode
The activist group that used peaceful protests to advance civil rights in New Orleans, First Draft post
The cemetery under the French Quarter, podcast episode
The Civil War brought the rise of a new Black activism in New Orleans, First Draft post
The free man of color whose invention revolutionized the sugar industry, First Draft post
The Great New Orleans Kidnapping case, podcast episode
The history of New Orleans's North Side Skull and Bone Gang, video
The integration of Audubon Park's pool and the committee that made it happen, First Draft post
The secret basketball game that desegregated Louisiana high school sports, podcast episode
The world of Rose Nicaud, presentation
Three current-day poets respond to Afro-Creole protest poetry of the 1860s, First Draft post
Virtual Field Trip: Civil rights pioneer Leona Tate, video
Where do second lines come from? The origins go back more than 200 years, First Draft post
Women's history
A portrait of a free woman of color, THNOC.
"Yet she is advancing": New Orleans Women and the right to vote, 1878–1970, virtual exhibition
A woman of firsts: Suzanne Douvillier changed dance in New Orleans—and America, First Draft post
Eliza Jane Nicholson, the small-town poet who became the first woman publisher of the Picayune, podcast episode
Henriette Delille and the Sisters of the Holy Family, podcast episode
How Native and non-Native Louisiana women found power in basketry, podcast episode
Identity theft: A rare painting damaged, a story half-told, and a reckoning about bias in art stewardship, First Draft post
In Jim Crow New Orleans, Sylvanie Williams fought for the rights of African American women, First Draft post
Leah Chase—Vieux Carré memoir oral history project, video
Marie Grissot: the midwife who battled Bienville in Louisiana's earliest days, First Draft post
New Orleans's Black debutante tradition defined, First Draft post
Poppy Tooker remembers Leah Chase with a recipt, a story, and the "craziest dream," First Draft post
Powerful women of the New Orleans underground (1860s-1890s), presentation
The New Orleans Woman who fought the longest court batlle in U.S. history, First Draft post
The Storyville madam who challenege Jim Crow—and won, First Draft post
The woman behind New Orleans's famous Pobtalba buildings, First Draft post
The women who fought for and against the ERA: Part I, podcast episode
The women who fought for and against the ERA: Part II, podcast episode
The world of Rose Nicaud, presentation
Voices of Progress: Twenty Women who Changed New Orleans History, virtual exhibition
What role did Louisianans play in the women's suffrage movement?, First Draft post
What this waffle iron look-alike tells us about female agency and spirituality in colonial New Orleans, First Draft post
Why the 19th Amendment didn't end the struggle for voting rights in New Orleans, First Draft post
Women of the German Protestant Orphan Asylum, 1930-1939, presentation
Maps
An 18th-century map of the Mississippi River Valley, THNOC.
A (new) world of cartography: Maps at The Historic New Orleans Collection, video
Both sides of the battle: British and American maps in the Battle of New Orleans, video
Copycat cartography: Soupart's original map of the Gulf Coast, video
Look closely for the tiny stories hidden in Louisiana's historic maps, First Draft post with video
Mapping New Orleans that could have been, video
New Orleans, the founding era: Growth of the city from 1718 to 1755, lesson plan
New Orleans, the founding era: Pineapple plan, video
Rolling down the river: ribbon map of the Father of Waters, video
Literature
Bearing witness through poetry: How poetry functions as a historical archive and means of protest, lesson plan
Eliza Jane Nicholson, the small-town poet who became the first woman publisher of the Picayune, podcast episode
Zora Neale Hurston, virtual exhibition
Miscellaneous
"The liquor capital of America"—New Orleans during Prohibition, First Draft post
A brief history of Jackson Square: From a soldier's stomping ground to tourist attraction, First Draft post
A community of refugees in New Orleans East, podcast episode
Five real New Orleans stories that should be made into movies, First Draft post
French Quarter life: People and place in the Vieux Carré, virtual exhibit
From Winnfield to Washington: The life and career of Huey P. Long, lesson plan
Goods of every description: Shopping in New Orleans, 1825-1925, virtual exhibition
Huey Long, annotated resource set
Huey P. Long annoated resource set, annotated resource set
In the late 1800s, devastating yellow fever epidemics forced New Orleans to confront its sanitation problem, First Draft post
Letters detail the hard lives of six 19th-century Irish immigrants in New Orleans, First Draft post
Money, money, money!: Currency holdings from The Historic New Orleans Collection, virtual exhibition
New Orleans history starter pack: A beginner's guide to understanding the Crescent City, First Draft post
Pick your poison: Discovering Storyville's history, lesson plan
Primary source database for educators
The stories behind 16 lost New Orleans landmarks, First Draft post
The summer when rats brought the Black Death to New Orleans, First Draft post
Vieux Carré Survey case study, digitized survey
When Paul Morphy brought chess mania to New Orleans, First Draft post
Yellow fever, annotated resource set
Yellow fever, lesson plan
Lesson plans
A fair to remember: The World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans, lesson plan
Art of the City: Postmodern to Post-Katrina, lesson plan
Bearing witness through poetry: How poetry functions as a historical archive and means of protest, lesson plan
Building a city: The founding of New Orleans, lesson plan (available in French and English)
Creole world: Photographs of New Orleans and the Latin Caribbean sphere, lesson plan
Crescent City sport, interactive lesson plan
Education and culture in Louisiana during the French colonial period, lesson plan
Exploring primary sources: Music in New Orleans, lesson plan
From Winnfield to Washington: The life and career of Huey P. Long, lesson plan
Jelly Roll Morton and Jazz, lesson plan
Louisiana and New Orleans during Reconstruction, lesson plan
Louisiana and the French colonial period, lesson plan
New Orleans and the Spanish world, lesson plan
New Orleans during the Civil War, lesson plan
New Orleans, the founding era: Growth of the city from 1718 to 1755, lesson plan
NOLA Resistance: lesson plan
Purchased lives: torn apart and stitched back together, lesson plan
Ruby Bridges, lesson plan
Spanish colonial Louisiana: Isleños and Malagueños, lesson plan
The Battle of New Orleans from two points of view: a scholar and an eyewitness, lesson plan
The Louisiana Purchase, lesson plan
Victory in the backyard: War gardens in World War I, lesson plan