New Orleans Tricentennial Anthology Table of Contents
Published by the LEH in partnership the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau, the New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation, and the 2018 NOLA Foundation, New Orleans and the World explores the city’s first three centuries through the eyes of its finest historians. Contributors include Emily Clark, Erin Greenwald, Keith Weldon Medley, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, John Shelton Reed, Sally Reeves, Daniel Usner, and Dr. Michael White, with forewords from Leah Chase and Walter Isaacson. Richard Campanella, Robert L. Dupont, Freddi Williams Evans, Alecia P. Long, Kara Tucina Olidge, and Lawrence N. Powell served as the editorial board for the book, which was edited by Nancy Dixon.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORDS
Lessons from the Gumbo Pot
Walter Isaacson and Leah Chase
INTRODUCTION
Executive Editor, Nancy Dixon, PhD
“THE LAND IS OF PECULIAR FORMATION”
How the Mississippi River created New Orleans’ dynamic deltaic environment
Richard Campanella
PROMETHEAN AMBITION
How an imperial backwater entered world history
Lawrence N. Powell, PhD
PART I: PEOPLE
Introduction: Two Jacksons
AMERICAN INDIANS IN NEW ORLEANS
Native communities were integral to the city’s foundation
Daniel H. Usner, PhD
GERMAN TURNERS: HEALTHY IN MIND AND BODY
Brigitta Malm
A WINDOW TO AFRICA
Enslaved Africans Perpetuated Cultural and Commercial Practices at Congo Square
Freddi Williams Evans
THE POETS OF LES CENELLES
Nancy Dixon, PhD
FROM FAMINE TO INFLUENCE
The Irish community had a formative impact on the city
Laura D. Kelley, PhD
THE POWER OF THE SICILIAN LEMON
Italians shaped the culture and commerce of New Orleans
Justin Nystrom, PhD
CARRYING ON TRADITIONS
Vietnamese community
Nancy Dixon, PhD
“LITTLE HONDURAS”
Helen Freund
ANCESTRAL SUITS
Patrina Peters, Big Wild Queen of the Red Hawk Hunters
Maurice Carlos Ruffin
PART II: SPACE & PLACE
Introduction: Pythian Temple
“A GRACEFUL CURVE OF THE RIVER”
Urbanism, Architecture, and the Emergence of a Distinctive Metropolitan Character
Richard Campanella
CAPITAL OF WORLD COMMERCE
Cotton made New Orleans a major international port during the nineteenth century
Robert L. Dupont, PhD
WORLD EXPOSITIONS 1884 and 1984
BIG TIME CITY
The transformation of Poydras Street marked a turning point for the city in the 1970s
Jack Davis
PART III: CONFLICT AND FREEDOM
Introduction: JORDAN NOBLE
“LOUISIANA IS OURS!”
An international crisis led to the Louisiana Purchase
Jon Kukla, PhD
AUCTION BLOCK
New Orleans was America’s largest slave market
Erin M. Greenwald, PhD
NEW ORLEANS AND THE CIVIL WAR
The conflict transformed the city from capital of the Cotton Kingdom to frontier of emancipation
Lawrence N. Powell, PhD
FREEDOM TRAIN
Activism by New Orleans’ free people of color led to the Plessy v. Ferguson case
Keith Weldon Medley
“OH, LORD, HOW LONG!”
New Orleans was a battleground for the woman suffrage movement
Pamela Tyler, PhD
“THE MAN WHO WON THE WAR FOR US”
Andrew Higgins and the pivotal role of New Orleans during WWII
Jerry Strahan
ENGINE OF EQUALITY
New Orleans was a frontier for legal battles and protests that fueled the Civil Rights movement
Kara Tucina Olidge, PhD
PART IV: SPIRITS AND SIN
MODELS OF PIETY
The Ursuline nuns and the roots of New Orleans Catholicism
Emily Clark, PhD
SHALOM, NEW ORLEANS
Jewish roots date back to city’s founding
CITIES OF THE DEAD
New Orleans iconic cemeteries evolved from necessity and diversity
Sally Asher
CONJURERS
Voodoo in New Orleans evolved from its African roots
Rev. Dwight Webster, PhD
THE SAFFRON SCOURGE
Yellow fever took the lives of thousands in nineteenth century New Orleans
C.W. Cannon, PhD
A WICKED CITY?
From Storyville to Bourbon Street, New Orleans’ lurid reputation attracts curious visitors and would-be reformers
Alecia P. Long, PhD
PART V: CUISINE AND CULTURE
MAKING GROCERIES
Public markets were culinary incubators in nineteenth century New Orleans
Sally K. Reeves
NDAR TO NEW ORLEANS
The African roots of Louisiana’s Creole cuisine
Zella Palmer
STAR CHEFS
These culinary icons shaped the world’s appreciation of New Orleans-style cuisine
“WETTEST CITY ON EARTH”
New Orleans’ love affair with the cocktail
Allison Alsup
CARNIVAL TIME
Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans date back to eighteenth century
Brian J. Costello
GOLDEN CROWN
Brian W. Boyles
THROW ME SOMETHING, SISTER!
Nancy Dixon, PhD
THE SPORTING LIFE
Boxing, baseball, and horse racing thrived during New Orleans’ gilded age
S.Derby Gisclair
BOHEMIAN REVIVAL
Artists and writers led the French Quarter renaissance of the 1920s
John Shelton Reed, PhD
LITERARY LIGHTS
ABUNDANT TALENT
Tom Dent was integral in BLKARTSOUTH movement
Nancy Dixon, PhD
PART VI: SOUNDS
WORLD ON A STRING
When Louis Armstrong, Kid Ory, and Jelly Roll Morton left home, they made jazz a global phenomenon
Bruce Boyd Raeburn, PhD
LOUIS GOTTSCHALK
CRADLE OF ROCK AND ROLL
Cosimo Matassa, Dave Bartholomew, and Allen Toussaint forged the future at J&M Studio
Alison Fensterstock
LATE NIGHT STARS
DEFINING JAZZ FEST
The history, heritage, and heirs of the festival at the Fairgrounds
Alex Rawls
“BEST RAPPER ALIVE”
Lil Wayne revolutionized hip-hop and reenergized New Orleans’ influence on popular music
David Dennis
PART VII: RENEWAL
IN KATRINA’S WAKE
New Orleanians fought through floodwaters and uncertainty to return home
Katy Reckdahl
THE SAINTS ARE COMING
Super Bowl XLIV and the New Orleans Comeback
Brian W. Boyles
OUR RESILIENCE
The city lays a foundation for the future
The Honorable Mitchell J. Landrieu
THE SOUL OF NEW ORLEANS
A lifetime of second lines and jazz funerals
Dr. Michael White
