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September 25, 2024
By Kerry Woodard, summer 2024 Archives and Special Collections Practicum intern

HNOC's diverse archive shows how restaurants preserve history and heritage through their menus.




September 13, 2024
By Lydia Blackmore, decorative arts curator

A census of portraits tells us who is—and isn't—represented in HNOC's holdings.




July 18, 2024
Nick Weldon, Editor

A new exhibition explores the historical links between the institutions of slavery and mass incarceration in Louisiana.




June 17, 2024
By Nicholas Paskert, 2023 DAGS fellow

A rare type of wooden mortar and pestle illuminates the history of food, culture, and labor in Louisiana.




April 5, 2024
Craig Fuchs, Visitor Services interpreter

As the national conversation stirred up by Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter has shown, Black musicians have played an important role in the evolution of country music at every stage of its development.




February 1, 2024
Molly Reid Cleaver, senior editor

The rich world of Masonic emblems and aesthetics, and the history of fraternal organizations behind them.




December 29, 2023
Mark Cave, senior historian, and Molly Reid Cleaver, senior editor

A new acquisition highlights the life and work of a leader of the Reconstruction-era civil rights movement in New Orleans.




October 20, 2023
Emily Perkins, curatorial cataloger

The "Coming to New Orleans" series explores immigration to NOLA from 1965 to Hurricane Katrina, and how it helped build the city we know today.




September 14, 2023
Libby Neidenbach, interpretive training coordinator

Civil rights activist Katie Whickam was a beautician, community leader, and national civil rights organizer who helped thousands of Black Americans access their right to vote.




September 12, 2023
Emily Perkins, curatorial cataloger

The "Coming to New Orleans" series explores the grown of the city's Hispanic community in the 20th century.




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