Imagining the Creole City: The Rise of Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans 0807158259, 9780807158258

In the early years of the nineteenth century, the burgeoning cultural pride of white Creoles in New Orleans intersected

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Imagining the Creole City: The Rise of Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
0807158259, 9780807158258

What is it about the city of New Orleans? History, location, and culture continue to link it to France while distancing

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The neighborhoods of New Orleans have given rise to an extraordinary outpouring of important writing. Over the last cent

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Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans examines a difficult chapter in American religious history: the story o

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"Post-Katrina New Orleans hasn't been an easy place to live, it hasn't been an easy place to be in love,

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This anonymous tourist pamphlet written at the beginning of the 20th century covers the culture, history, architecture a

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What was it like to grow up black and female in the segregated South? To answer this question, LaKisha Simmons blends so

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The Battle of New Orleans was the climactic battle of America's "forgotten war" of 1812. Andrew Jackson l

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The stages of antebellum New Orleans did more than entertain. In the city’s early years, French-speaking residents used

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