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  • A Luminous Brotherhood: Afro-Creole Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans

    In the midst of a nineteenth-century boom in spiritual experimentation, the Cercle Harmonique, a remarkable group of African-descended men, practiced Spiritualism in heavily Catholic New Orleans from just before the Civil War to the end of Reconstruction.

  • Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: The Life and Times of Henry Louis Rey

    Modern American Spiritualism blossomed in the 1850s and continued as a viable faith into the 1870s. Because of its diversity and openness to new cultures and religions, New Orleans provided fertile ground to nurture Spiritualism, and many séance circles flourished in the Creole Faubourgs of Tremé and Marigny as well as the American sector of…

  • The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case

    The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case Tripod: New Orleans At 300 89.9 FM WWNO New Orleans, Louisiana 2016-06-16 Laine Kaplan-Levenson, Producer The Provost Guard in New Orleans taking up Vagrant Negroes. (1974.25.9.190) THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION It was June. It was hot. Kids were out of school, keeping busy outdoors. Parents were inside. Kind…

  • Becoming American in Creole New Orleans: family, community, labor and schooling, 1896-1949

    Becoming American in Creole New Orleans: family, community, labor and schooling, 1896-1949 University of Sussex May 2015 371 pages Darryl G. Barthé, Jr. Doctorate of Philosophy in History The Louisiana Creole community in New Orleans went through profound changes in the first half of the 20th-century. This work examines Creole ethnic identity, focusing particularly on the transition…

  • “[She] Passed Down Orleans Street, a Polished Dandy”: The Queer Race Romance of Ludwig von Reizenstein’s The Mysteries of New Orleans

    “[She] Passed Down Orleans Street, a Polished Dandy”: The Queer Race Romance of Ludwig von Reizenstein’s The Mysteries of New Orleans Studies in American Fiction Volume 43, Issue 1, Spring 2016 pages 27-50 DOI: 10.1353/saf.2016.0005 Lauren Heintz Department of English California State University, Los Angeles Ludwig von Reizenstein’s sensational, serialized novel, The Mysteries of New…

  • The Mysteries of New Orleans

    A lost classic of America’s neglected German-language literary tradition, “The Mysteries of New Orleans” by Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein first appeared as a serial in the Louisiana Staats-Zeitung, a New Orleans German-language newspaper, between 1854 and 1855.

  • On Becoming Black, Becoming White and Being Human: Rachel Dolezal and the Fluidity of Race

    On Becoming Black, Becoming White and Being Human: Rachel Dolezal and the Fluidity of Race Truthdig 2015-06-18 Channing G. Joseph Library of Congress For decades, no one knew my cousin Ernest Torregano was black. At least, no one who mattered in his new life. Not the clients or associates of the prominent bankruptcy law firm…

  • New Orleans II: the Halloween Ghost Post

    New Orleans II: the Halloween Ghost Post The History Tourist 2015-10-31 Susan Kalasunas My first chance to encounter a ghost at the Bourbon Orleans Hotel in New Orleans came not long after check-in. “Can we see the ballroom?” I asked the receptionist. “Yes. We don’t have an event tonight, but the doors should be open.…

  • Off the record: Wright State’s Natasha McPherson pulls histories of Creole women from obscure public documents

    Off the record: Wright State’s Natasha McPherson pulls histories of Creole women from obscure public documents Dialogue: Newsletter for Faculty & Staff Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio 2015-02-03 Jim Hannah, Assistant Director of Public Relations Natasha McPherson, an assistant professor of history, has spent 10 years documenting the previously untold history of Creole women. With…

  • Meet Yaba Blay

    Meet Yaba Blay WUNC 91.5 North Carolina Public Radio 2016-03-07 Charlie Shelton, Digital News Producer Frank Stasio, Host “The State of Things” Yaba Blay is the Dan Blue Endowed Chair in Political Science at N.C. Central University Sabriya Simon Growing up in New Orleans, Yaba Blay saw firsthand the different roles one navigates as an…