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Explore HNOC’s catalog of publications about Gulf South history, culture, art, and much more.
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Spanish New Orleans and the Caribbean / La Nueva Orleans y el Caribe españoles
edited by Alfred E. Lemmon
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
A Life in Jazz
by Danny Barker
edited by Alyn Shipton, with an introduction by Gwen Thompkins
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
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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John Legend
Maurice Carlos Ruffin, novelist and New York Times contributor
American Literary Translators Association
Howard Reich, the Chicago Tribune
Louisiana History
Journal of the Civil War Era
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Captive State: Louisiana and the Making of Mass Incarceration
by Eric Seiferth, Katherine Jolliff Dunn, and Kevin T. Harrell (curators) and Nick Weldon (editor)
Louisiana Lens: Photographs from the Historic New Orleans Collection
by John H. Lawrence
with a foreword by Jeff L. Rosenheim
Spanish New Orleans and the Caribbean / La Nueva Orleans y el Caribe españoles
edited by Alfred E. Lemmon
John Clemmer: A Legacy in Art
with essays by Judith H. Bonner, John Ed Bradley, and David Clemmer
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