Insatiable City – Food and Race in New Orleans Theresa McCulla – University of Chicago Press – 2024 In a new book, Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans, Theresa McCulla gives voice to Louisiana’s black food industry workers whose stories were muted and marginalized by 300 years of racial injustice. (University of Chicago […]

This story was originally published by ProPublica on December 11, 2022. Permission to republish the article has been granted by ProPublica.  The article is presented in full but you can view the original story here. The Federal Program to Rebuild After Hurricane Katrina Shortchanged the Poor. New Data Proves It. by Richard A. Webster and Jeff

We were lucky more than AnythingEngineer Dan Smith on Hurricane Isidore (2002) It isn’t often that events conspire to warn us of what is to come, but such was the case with in 2002. The first warning came in a series of Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper articles in June of that year. Authored by reporters

Deep Delta Justice – A Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South – by Mathew Van Meter We have yet to review this book. The following is from the publisher’s website: in 1966 in a small town in Louisiana, a 19-year-old black man named Gary Duncan pulled his

Mutinous Women by Joan DeJean                                                                                          Law deported convicts to settle New Orleans and sent over prostitutes to marry them. (Emphasis added.)   Such was the long-held belief, even among

Tinderbox – The Untold Story of the Upstairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation   From the Publishers Website: Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. In revelatory detail, Robert W. Fieseler chronicles the tragic event that claimed the

John Eugene Rodriguez’s Spanish New Orleans is the first comprehensive academic analysis of how Spain governed the largest imperial city in its North American empire. Rodriguez suggests that the Spanish empire was, at least on the northern edge, slipping into economic and perhaps political independence a decade before the overthrow of its Bourbon Spanish rulers in 1808.

   Katrina at The Tulane Book Festival The 2022 Tulane Book Festival was held on March 10-12 and in addition to a great lineup of authors (Grisham, Blow, Gladwell, Sister Prejean, Lewis, Gordon-Reed, and many more) a panel of Hurricane Katrina experts participated in an important discussion of the legacy of rebuilding and recovery. The

What caused Katrina?   A simple question, until we dig a bit deeper into the terms. By Katrina, do we mean the failure of the levees? Do we mean the meteorological storm? Or, are we speaking of the breakdown of society occasioned by a combination of levee breaches, power failures,  and government ineptitude? Are we

First Things The narrative below was written for our predcessor website KatrinaArcchives.org. We have move that content to this site in order to provide a more inclusive history of Louisiana as well as to provide updates on important current events such as climate change, race, wetland protection, and more.  ********************************************************************************************************************************* This site is dedicated to