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Explore HNOC’s catalog of publications about Gulf South history, culture, art, and much more.

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Bunny Matthews: His Life, Art, and Obsessions

by Alison Fensterstock and Michael Tisserand

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Illustrated historic crest featuring helmets, swords, and flags. Central text reads Spanish New Orleans and the Caribbean with a bilingual subtitle, La Nueva Orleans y el Caribe españoles.

Spanish New Orleans and the Caribbean / La Nueva Orleans y el Caribe españoles

edited by Alfred E. Lemmon

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Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood

by Fatima Shaik

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Afro-Creole Poetry in French from Louisiana’s Radical Civil War–Era Newspapers

translated and introduced by Clint Bruce
with a foreword by Angel Adams Parham

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A Life in Jazz

by Danny Barker
edited by Alyn Shipton, with an introduction by Gwen Thompkins

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A lively black-and-white photo of a parade in New Orleans. People are dancing exuberantly in the street, dressed in formal attire with hats. The scene is vibrant with energy and joy.

In the Spirit: The Photography of Michael P. Smith from the Historic New Orleans Collection

with essays by Jason Berry, Dan Cameron, John H. Lawrence, and Jude Solomon

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A vintage map of the Gulf Coast region, including parts of modern-day Louisiana, Florida, and Texas, is displayed on a green background. The text reads Charting Louisiana and Five Hundred Years of Maps - The Historic New Orleans Collection.

Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps

edited by Alfred E. Lemmon, John T. Magill, and Jason Wiese; consulting editor, John R. Hébert

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Praise for Our Books

“Captive State tells the story of Louisiana’s history of incarceration and its roots in slavery with honesty and power . . . . It’s a reminder of how art and history can help us see the truth and imagine something better.”

John Legend

“Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood, by Fatima Shaik, provides a fascinating look at the city from the slavery era through the Jazz Age. Using primary documents that her father rescued from a trash hauler’s pickup truck, Shaik builds a nonfiction narrative that’s both illuminating and compulsively readable.”

Maurice Carlos Ruffin, novelist and New York Times contributor

“[Afro-Creole Poetry in French from Louisiana’s Radical Civil War–Era Newspapers is a] book of tremendous historical value. Its substantial introduction draws the reader into the story of the newspapers. . . . Every reader will learn important things from this book: it restores a wrongly forgotten but now-inspiring chapter in Francophone poetic creativity and US history.”

American Literary Translators Association

“Outside of [Jelly Roll] Morton, no single musician shed more light on the origins, context and meaning of early jazz than guitarist-banjoist-raconteur Danny Barker. So anyone who values this music can be thankful that Barker’s memoir, A Life in Jazz, has been restored to print in lavishly illustrated, sumptuously produced form by the Historic New Orleans Collection. . . . The tome reaffirms the singularity of Barker’s voice and the value of his insights.”

Howard Reich, the Chicago Tribune

“[Charting Louisiana is] a monumental achievement, which will no doubt set the benchmark for future studies of Louisiana cartography and historical geography.”

Louisiana History

“In its diligent documentation, clear explanations, and dramatic story, Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana will enhance and expand popular knowledge about Oscar Dunn and Reconstruction.”

Journal of the Civil War Era