| CNN Reports: Katrina State of Emergency | | - | CNN | 10/1/2005 | Andrews McMeel Publishing | Click Here | Impact | - |
| Hurricane Katrina – The Storm That Changed America | | - | Time Magazine | 11/15/2005 | In these pages the editors of TIME tell the full story of Hurricane Katrina through remarkable pictures, moving words and incisive analysis. | Click Here | Impact | - |
| Katrina: The Ruin and Recovery of New Orleans | | - | The Times-Picayune | 8/1/2006 | Spotlight Press | Click Here | Impact | - |
| Showdown in Desire: The Black Panthers Take a Stand in New Orleans | Orissa | Arend | University of Arkansas Press | 2009 | The book, "portrays the Black Panther Party in New Orleans in 1970, a year that included a shootout with the police,.." | Click Here | Race | Police |
| A Thousand Ways Denied - The Environmental Legacy of Oil in Louisiana | John | Arnold | Louisiana State University Press | 11/11/2020 | Arnold documents the oil industry’s sharp interface with Louisiana’s environment. Drawing on government, corporate, and personal files...he traces the history of oil-field practices and their ecological impacts in tandem with battles over regulation. | Click Here | Environment | Wetlands |
| Rising Tide - The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America | John | Barry | Simon & Schuster | 1997 | An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known -- the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of nearly one million people, helped elect Huey Long governor and made Herbert Hoover president, drove hundreds of thousands of blacks north, and transformed American society and politics forever. | Click Here | Environment | - |
| The Great Displacement - Climate Change and the Next American Migration | Jake | Bittle | Simon and Shuster | 2/21/2023 | The Great Displacement tells the stories of those who are experiencing life on the move, while detailing just how radically climate change will transform our lives... | Click Here | Climate Change | Wetlands |
| My Storm: Managing the Recovery of New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina | Edward | Blakely | University of Pennsylvania Press | 12/16/2011 | My Storm is a firsthand account of a critical sixteen months in the post-Katrina recovery process. It tells the story of Blakely's endeavor to transform the shell of a cherished American city into a city that could not only survive but thrive. | Click Here | Recovery | - |
| Managing Hurricane Katrina - Lessons From A Megacrisis | Arjen | Boin | Louisiana State University Press | 5/7/2019 | Katrina may be the most extensively studied disaster to date, but the authors argue that many academic conclusions are inaccurate or contradictory when examined in concert. "...we lack a clear and agreed-upon framework for assessing the response to a mega-disaster (or for any sort of crisis for that matter)...This book aims to offer a more balanced way to study and assess the response to a mega-disaster.." | Click Here | Meteorology | - |
| French Colonial Louisiana and the Atlantic World | Bradley | Bond | Louisiana State University Press | 2005 | This anthology seeks to locate early Louisiana in its proper place, bringing together a broad range of scholarship that depicts a complex and vibrant sphere. Edited by Bradley Bond. | Click Here | - | - |
| The Great Deluge - Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Coast | Douglas | Brinkley | Harper Perennial | 2007 | Historian and journalist Douglas Brinkley "...finds the true heroes of of this unparalleled catastrophe, and lets the survivors tell their own stories, masterly allowing them to record the nightmare that was Katrina." | Click Here | Impact | FEMA |
| Drowned City - Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans | Don | Brown | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 2017 | An illustrated telling of the tragedy of Katrina. Intended for students 12 years of age and up. | Click Here | - | - |
| Deadly Indifference – The Perfect (Political) Storm | Michael D. | Brown | Taylor Trade Publishing | 6/16/2011 | Former Under Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Brown–infamously praised by President George W. Bush for doing a 'heck of a job' in the wake of Hurricane Katrina–tells his side... | Click Here | - | - |
| Ubiquity, Why Catastrophes Happen | Mark | Buchanan | Three Rivers Press | 2001 | Critically acclaimed science journalist, Mark Buchanan tells the fascinating story of the discovery that there is a natural structure of instability woven into the fabric of our world, which explains why catastrophes-- both natural and human-- happen. | Click Here | - | - |
| Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Katrina | Robert | Bullard | Westview Press | 4/17/2018 | Racial disparities exists in disaster response, cleanup, rebuilding, reconstruction, and recover…In exploring the geography of vulnerability, this book asks why some communities get left behind economically, spatially, and physically before and after disasters strike. | Click Here | Race | - |
| Decision Points | George W. | Bush | Crown Publishers | 2010 | The former President describes his political career and his decision making while President of the United States. | Click Here | - | - |
| Legendary Locals of Metairie | Catherine | Campanella | Legendary Locals | 2013 | As described in title. | Click Here | - | - |
| Bourbon Street - A History | Richard | Campanella | Louisiana State University Press | 2014 | Tulane University professor Campanella describes the history and flavor that is Bourbon Street. | Click Here | - | - |
| Cityscapes of New Orleans | Richard | Campanella | Louisiana State University Press | 2017 | Exploring the Crescent City from the ground up, Richard Campanella takes us on a winding journey toward explaining the city's distinct urbanism and eccentricities. | Click Here | Geography | - |
| The West Bank of Greater New Orleans | Richard | Campanella | Louisiana State University Press | 2020 | Richard Campanella is the first to examine the West Bank holistically, as a legitimate subregion with its own story to tell. | Click Here | Geography | - |
| Draining New Orleans - The 300-Year Quest to Dewater the Crescent City | Richard | Campanella | Louisiana State University Press | 2023 | Draining New Orleans is the first full-length book entirely devoted to one of the world's most challenging drainage problems: the reclamation and drainage of a fluvial delta for the development of the City of New Orleans. Renowned Crescent City geographer and historian Richard Campanella introduces readers to the epic challenges and ingenious efforts to dewater New Orleans. | Click Here | Geography | |
| Time and place in New Orleans – Past Geographies In The Present Day | Richard | Campanella | Pelican Publishing Company | 4/30/2002 | In Time and Place in New Orleans, Richard Campanella explores the influence of New Orleans’s singular typography and geography on the city's growth and development. | Click Here | - | - |
| Geographies of New Orleans: Urban Fabrics Before the Storm | Richard | Campanella | Center for Louisiana Studies | 8/1/2006 | Five years in the making, Geographies of New Orleans unveils resh new perspectives on a famous old city, from its fragile deltaic terrain to its striking built environment, from its diverse ethnic makeup to its devastation by Hurricane Katrina. | Click Here | Geography | - |
| Bienville's Dilemma: A Historical Geography of New Orleans | Richard | Campanella | University of Louisiana | 11/4/2008 | All New Orleans' glories, tragedies, contributions, and complexities can be traced back to the geographical dilemma Bienville confronted in 1718 when selecting the primary location of New Orleans. "Bienville's Dilemma" presents sixty-eight articles on the historical geography of New Orleans, covering the formation and foundation of the city, its urbanization and population, its "humanization" into a place of distinction, the manipulation of its environment, its devastation by Hurricane Katrina, and its ongoing recovery. | Click Here | Geography | - |
| Lost New Orleans | Richard | Campanella | Pavillion | 3/2/2015 | Lost New Orleans is the latest in the series from Pavilion Books that traces the cherished places in a city that time, progress and fashion have swept aside before concerned citizens or the National Register of Historic Places could save them from the wrecker’s ball. | Click Here | Architecture | Culture |
| Above New Orleans - Roofscapes of the Crescent City | Richard | Campanella | LSU Press | 9/15/2021 | The first full-length book of drone photography of the Crescent City, Above New Orleans offers readers perspectives never before captured by a camera. | Click Here | Architecture | Culture |
| Politics and Punishment: The History of the Louisiana Penal System | Mark | Carleton | Louisiana State University Press | 1994 | One of the few studies of its kind, this political history of the Louisiana penal system from its origin to the near-present places heavy-emphasis on the development of penal policy and shows how the vicissitudes of the system have reflected the prevailing social, economic, and political views of the state as a whole. | Click Here | Race | - |
| Preservation Hall: Music From the Heart | William | Carter | W.W. Norton & Co. | 1991 | A history of Preservation Hall and New Orelans jazz. | Click Here | Culture | |
| In My TIme - A Personal and Political Memoir | Dick | Cheney | Threshold Editions | 2011 | Dick Cheney describes his career in politics. | Click Here | - | - |
| Masterless Mistresses - The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society | Emily | Clark | University of North Carolina Press | 2007 | Clark traces the conflicts the Ursulines encountered through Spanish colonial rule (1767-1803) and after the Louisiana Purchase...By incorporating their story into the history of early America, Masterless Mistresses exposes the limits of the republican model of national unity. | Click Here | - | - |
| Flood Of Lies - The St. Rita's Nursing Home Tragedy | James | Cobb, Jr. | Pelican Publishing Company | 7/6/2015 | In the media storm that followed Hurricane Katrina, one gruesome story captivated a horrified nation: thirty-five elderly residents of St. Rita's Nursing Home drowned when a wall of water hit the home like a bomb...Amid the ruins, Cobb met the Manganos and was convinced not only of their innocence but also of their selflessness and courage on that fateful August day when they, too, lost everything. | Click Here | Healthcare | - |
| An Unnatural Metropolis - Wresting New Orleans From Nature | Craig | Colten | Louisiana State University Press | 2005 | How New Orleans came to be, taking shape between the mutual and often contradictory forces of nature and urban development, is the subject of An Unnatural Metropolis. | Click Here | Environment | Geography |
| Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs - Centuries of Change | Craig | Colten | University of Pittsburgh Press | 1/4/2001 | In eleven essays, scholars across disciplines––including anthropology, architecture, history, natural history, and geography––chronicle how societies have worked to transform untamed wetlands and volatile floodplains into a present-day sprawling urban center and industrial complex, and how they have responded to the environmental changes brought about by the disruption of the natural setting. | Click Here | Environment | Geography |
| Perilous Place, Powerful Storms - Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana | Craig | Colten | University Press of Mississippi/Jackson | 6/12/2009 | In Perilous Place, Powerful Storms, Craig E. Colten traces the protracted process of erecting massive structures designed to fend off tropical storms and examines how human actions and inactions left the system incomplete on the eve of its greatest challenge. | Click Here | Environment | Geography |
| Southern Waters: The Limits to Abundance | Craig | Colten | LSU Press | 10/2014 | In tracing the evolving uses and abuses of southern waters, Colten offers crucial insights into the complex historical geography of water throughout the region. [From Press Release] | Click Here | Environment | Natural Resources |
| State of Disaster: A Historical Geography of Louisiana's Land Loss Crisis | Craig | Colten | LSU Press | 10/2021 | Colten masterfully explains how policy makers responded to successive disasters with piecemeal, disarticulated efforts at remediation and environmental management that, collectively, failed to recognize and address the cultural impacts of, and economic inequities produced by, these initiatives. ― Graeme Wynn, University of British Columbia | Click Here | Environment | Geography |
| Hurricane Katrina and the Forgotten Coast of Mississippi | Susan | Cutter | Cambridge University Press | 4/2014 | An collection of essays that examine the impact of Katrina on southern Mississippi. While communities along Mississippi's Gulf Coast shared the impact, their socioeconomic and demographic compositions varied widely, leading to different types and rates of recovery. | Click Here | Recovery | - |
| Building the Devil's Empire - French Colonial New Orleans | Shannon | Dawdy | University of Chicago Press | 2009 | Building the Devil's Empire is the first comprehensive history of New Orleans''s early years, tracing the town's development from its origins in 1718 to its revolt against Spanish rule in 1768. | Click Here | - | - |
| The Louisiana Governors | Joseph | Dawson III | Louisiana State University Press | 1990 | From Iberville to Edwards | Click Here | - | - |
| No Cross, No Crown - Black Nuns in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans | Sister Mary | Deggs | Indiana University Press | 2001 | Edited by Virginia Meacham Gould and Charles E. Nolan, the history of the Sisters of the Holy Family as recorded by Sister Deggs. "This account, written between 1894 and 1896, captures...the founding of the Sisters of the Holy Family..That a small band of Afro-Creole women founded a religious community in the antebellum South was remarkable. | Click Here | - | - |
| Mutinous Women - How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast | Joan | DeJean | Basic Books | 4/9/2022 | In 1719, a ship named La Mutine (the mutinous woman), sailed from the French port of Le Havre, bound for the Mississippi. It was loaded with urgently needed goods for the fledgling French colony, but its principal commodity was a new kind of export: women. Drawing on an impressive range of sources to restore the voices of these women to the historical record, Mutinous Women introduces us to the Gulf South’s Founding Mothers. | Click Here | Women | - |
| The Up Stairs Lounge Arson | Clayton | Delery-Edwards | McFarland | 2014 | The Up Stairs Lounge Arson tells the story of who used to go to this bar, what happened on the day of the fire, what course the investigations took, why an arrest was never made, and what the lasting effects of the fire have been. | Click Here | LGBTQ | |
| From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans - Migration and Influences | Natalie | Dessens | University Press of Florida | 2007 | A thorough investigation of the specific contributions of the Haitian refugees..to New Orlean's society, politics, and culture. Journal of American Ethnic History. | Click Here | Race | - |
| Come Hell Or High Water – Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster | Michael | Dyson | Civitas Books | 1/23/2006 | Displaying the intellectual rigor, political passion, personal empathy that have won him acclaim and fans all across the color line, Michael Eric Dyson offers a searing assessment of the meaning of Hurricane Katrina. With this clarion call Dyson warns us that we can only find redemption as a society if we acknowledge that Katrina was more than an engineering or emergency response failure. What's at stake is no less than the future of democracy. | Click Here | Impact | - |
| Congo Square - African Roots in New Orleans | Freddi Williams | Evans | University of Louisiana at Lafayette | 2011 | [The book] comprises the first comprehensive study of one of the New World’s most sacred sites of African American memory and community. Beginning in the eighteenth century, enslaved Africans and free people of color gathered in Congo Square on Sunday afternoons discontinuously for well over one hundred years | Click Here | Culture | African American |
| Building the Land of Dreams - New Orleans and the Transformation of Early America | Eberhard | Faber | Princeton University Press | 2016 | Eberhard Faber tells the vivid story of how American rule forced New Orleans through a vast transition: from the ordered colonial world of hierarchy and subordination to the fluid, unpredictable chaos of democratic capitalism. | Click Here | - | - |
| Bulldozed and Betrayed - Louisiana and the Stolen Elections of 1876 | Adam | Fairclough | Louisiana State University Press | 9/8/2021 | Adam Fairclough's Bulldozed and Betrayed: Louisiana and the Stolen Elections of 1876 sheds new light on the events surrounding the electoral crisis, especially those that occurred in Louisiana, a state singled out for voter intimidation and rampant fraud | Click Here | - | - |
| Tinderbox - The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation | Robert | Fieseler | Liveright Publishing | 2018 | Robert W. Fieseler chronicles the tragic event that claimed the lives of thirty-one men and one woman on June 24, 1973, at a New Orleans bar, the largest mass murder of gays until 2016. | Click Here | LGBTQ | |
| Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital | Sheri | Fink | Broadway Books | 9/10/2013 | After Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue...Five Days At Memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting by Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink, unspools the mystery, bringing the reader inside a hospital fighting for life and into the most charged questions in health care: which patients should be prioritized, and can health professionals every be excused for hastening death? | Click Here | Healthcare | - |
| Sugar Masters - Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820-1860 | Richard | Follett | Louisiana State University Press | 6/2005 | The Sugar Masters explores how a moder, capitalist mind-set among planters enmeshed with old-style paternalistic attitudes to create one of the South's most insidiously oppressive labor systems. | Click Here | Slavery | - |
| Eye Of The Storm - Inside City Hall During Katrina | Sally | Forman | Author-House | 2007 | Forman was the city's Communications Director when the hurricane (Katrina) struck. This is her story from the center of the storm. | Click Here | - | - |
| Catastrophe in the Making – The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow | William | Freudenburg | Island Press | 6/22/2012 | Freudenburg…place the blame squarely on the 'growth machine' and its agents – the engineers, developers, speculators, and politicians who ignored the warning signs and and trample nature in pursuit of profits. | Click Here | Engineering | FEMA |
| Louisiana: Its History as a French Colony - Third Series of Lectures | Charles | Gayarré | John Wiley | 1852 | One of the earliest books to chronicle Louisiana history. | Click Here | - | - |
| History of Louisiana - The French Domination Volume I | Charles | Gayarré | Redfield | 1854 | One of the earliest books to chronicle Louisiana history. | Click Here | - | - |
| History of Louisiana - The Spanish Domination | Charles | Gayarré | Redfield | 1854 | One of the earliest books to chronicle Louisiana history. | Click Here | - | - |
| History of Louisiana: The American Domination | Charles | Gayarré | William J. Widdleton | 1866 | One of the earliest books to chronicle Louisiana history. | Click Here | - | - |
| New Orleans After The Promises - Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society | Kent | Germany | The University of Georgia Press | 2007 | New Orleans after the Promises explores how, at a time when liberalism seemed to be on the wane nationally, the city's black and white citizens cautiously partnered with each other and the federal government to expand liberalism in the South. | Click Here | - | - |
| Lords of Misrule - Mardi Gras and the Politics of Race in New Orleans | James | Gill | University Press of Mississippi Jackson | 1/1/1997 | From Amazon: Lords of Misrule is the first book to explore the effects of Mardi Gras on the social and political development of New Orleans, the first to analyze recent attempts to end racial segregation within the organizations that stage the annual festivities. | Click Here | Race | Culture |
| Tearing Down the Lost Cause: The Removal of New Orleans's Confederate Statues | James | Gill | University Press of Mississippi | 5/26/2021 | James Gill and Howard Hunter examine New Orleans’s complicated relationship with the history of the Confederacy pre– and post–Civil War. | Click Here | Race | - |
| A History of French Louisiana, Vol III: The Period of John Law 1717-1720 | Marcel | Giraud | The Historic New Orleans Collection | 1966 | Marcel Giraud’s History of French Louisiana, published in France between 1951 and 1974, represent the most exhaustive and authoritative scholarly study of France’s establishment in the lower Mississippi Valley. LSU Press . Translated by Russell Desmond. Only available at The Historic Collection. | Click Here | - | - |
| A History of French Louisiana Volume IV Louisiana After the System of Law 1721-1723 | Marcel | Giraud | The Historic New Orleans Collection | 1966 | Marcel Giraud’s History of French Louisiana, published in France between 1951 and 1974, represent the most exhaustive and authoritative scholarly study of France’s establishment in the lower Mississippi Valley. LSU Press . Translated by Russell Desmond. Only available at The Historic Collection. | Click Here | - | - |
| A History of French Louisiana, Volume I, The Reign of Louis XIV, 1698-1715 | Marcel | Giraud | Louisiana State University Press | 4/1974 | Marcel Giraud’s History of French Louisiana, published in France between 1951 and 1974, represent the most exhaustive and authoritative scholarly study of France’s establishment in the lower Mississippi Valley. LSU Press | Click Here | - | - |
| A History of French Louisiana, Volume V: | Marcel | Giraud | Louisiana State University Press | 4/1/1991 | Marcel Giraud’s History of French Louisiana, published in France between 1951 and 1974, represent the most exhaustive and authoritative scholarly study of France’s establishment in the lower Mississippi Valley. LSU Press | Click Here | - | - |
| A History of French Louisiana, Volume II | Marcel | Giraud | Louisiana State University Press | 4/1993 | Marcel Giraud’s History of French Louisiana, published in France between 1951 and 1974, represent the most exhaustive and authoritative scholarly study of France’s establishment in the lower Mississippi Valley. LSU Press | Click Here | - | - |
| rethinking community resilience - The Politics of Disaster Recovery in New Orleans | Min Hee | Go | New York University Press | 8/2021 | In Rethinking Community Resilience, Min Hee Go shows that...recovery efforts are not always the panacea they seem to be, and can actually escalate the city’s susceptibility to future environmental hazards. | Click Here | Resilience | Recovery |
| Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing | Jacob | Goldstein | Hachette | 2020 | The history of money, including a detailed explanation of John Law's Mississippi bubble that helped create French Louisiana. | Click Here | - | - |
| Authentic New Orleans - Tourism, Culture, and Race in the Big Easy | Kevin | Gotham | New York University Press | 2007 | By examining various image-building campaigns and promotional strategies to disseminate a palatable image of New Orleans on a national scale Gotham ultimately establishes New Orleans as one of the originators of the mass tourism industry--which linked leisure to travel, promoted international expositions, and developed the concept of pleasure travel. NYU Press | Click Here | Race | Tourism |
| We're Still Here Ya Bastards | Roberta | Gratz | Nation Books | 2015 | This book "presents an extraordinary panoramic look at New Orleans’s revival in the years following the hurricane. Award-winning journalist Roberta Brandes Gratz shares the stories of people who returned to their homes and have taken the rebuilding of their city into their own hands." | Click Here | Recovery | - |
| Shots On The Bridge - Police Violence and Cover-Up in the Wake of Katrina | Ronnie | Greene | Beacon Press | 2015 | Shots on the Bridge explores one of the most dramatic cases of injustice in the last decade. It reveals the fear that gripped the police of a city fallen into anarchy, the circumstances that led desperate survivors to go to the bridge, and the horror that erupted with the gunfire. It dissects the cover-up that nearly buried the truth and the legal maze that, a decade later, leaves the victims still searching for justice. | Click Here | Racial Violence | Race |
| Marc-Antoine Caillot and the Company of the Indies in Louisiana | Erin M. | Greenwald | Louisiana State University Press | 6/13/2016 | Focusing on the travels and travails of Marc-Antoine Caillot, a company clerk who set sail for Louisiana in 1729, Greenwald deftly examines the company's role as colonizer, developer, slaveholder, commercial entity, and deal maker. | Click Here | - | - |
| Bourbonism and Agrarian Protest - Louisiana Politics 1877-1900 | William Ivy | Hair | Louisiana State University Press | 1969 | In this book I have attempted to capture the essence of Louisiana in the late nineteenth century, the time of America's gilded age. | Click Here | - | - |
| Carnival of Fury - Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900 | William Ivy | Hair | Louisiana State University Press | 1976 | One July week in 1900, an obscure black laborer named Robert Charles drew national headlines when he shot twenty-seven whites in a series of encounters with the New Orleans police...CARNIVAL OF FURY follows Charles from childhood in a Mississippi sharecropper's cabin to his violent death on New Orleans's Saratoga Street, piecing together the story of a man who tried to achieve dignity and self-respect in a time when people of his race could not exhibit such characteristics without fear of reprisal | Click Here | - | - |
| The Kingfish And His Realm - The Life and TImes of Huey P. Long | William Ivy | Hair | Louisiana State University Press | 1991 | The best biography of Long written to date. New Orleans Times-Picayune. | Click Here | Corruption | - |
| Bounded Lives, Bounded Place - Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans | Kimberly | Hanger | Duke University Press | 1997 | In Bounded Lives, Bounded Places , Kimberly S. Hanger explores the origin of antebellum New Orleans' large, influential, and propertied free black--or libre --population, one that was unique in the South. | Click Here | Race | - |
| By One Vote - The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876 | Michael | Holt | University Press of Kansas | 10/15/2008 | A fresh interpretation of the disputed presidential election of 1876 between Rutherford Hayes and Samuel Tilden, which was characterized by allegations of election fraud and a narrow victory by a single electoral vote. Many historians consider this election the precursor to the bitterly divisive 2000 Bush-Gore election. | Click Here | - | - |
| Leadership In the New Normal | Lt. Gen. Russel | Honoré | Acadian House Publishing | 2012 | ...a short course on how to be an effective leader in the 21st century. It describes modern leadership principles and techniques... | Click Here | - | - |
| Breach of Faith - Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City | Jed | Horne | Random House | 2006 | Horne, editor of the New Orleans Times-Picayune," takes readers into the private worlds and inner thoughts of Hurricane Katrina victims from all walks of life to weave a tapestry as intricate and vivid as the city itself." | Click Here | Impact | - |
| Katrina: A History, 1915-2015 | Andy | Horowitz | Harvard University Press | 7/7/2020 | “The main thrust of Horowitz’s account is to make us understand Katrina―the civic calamity, not the storm itself―as a consequence of decades of bad decisions by humans, not an unanticipated caprice of nature…He leaves readers with a strong sense that it’s only a matter of time before there is a similar disaster in New Orleans, and that, in whatever lull there is between now and then, things aren't great.”―Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker | Click Here | Impact | - |
| Hurricane Katrina in Transatlantic Perspective | Romain | Huret | Louisiana State University Press | 12/15/2014 | Hurricane Katrina in Transatlantic Perspective offers a profound and innovative collections of insights [essays] into one of the most significant environmental catastrophes in U.S. history, forcing us to examine the cultural factors that transformed the stormy from a natural disaster into an humanitarian crisis. | Click Here | Environment | - |
| New Orleans in the Gilded Age - Politics and Urban Progress 1880-1896 | Joy | Jackson | Louisiana State University Press | 1969 | Its major objective [this book] is to analyze a period in the city's life that has been largely neglected. | Click Here | - | - |
| Leander Perez - Boss of the Delta | Glen | Jeansonne | University Press of Mississippi Jackson | 1995 | As described in title. | Click Here | Race | Corruption |
| Slavery's Metropolis - Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of Revolutions | Rashauna | Johnson | Cambridge University Press | 2016 | Slavery's Metropolis uses slave circulations through New Orleans between 1791 and 1825 to map the social and cultural history of enslaved men and women and the rapidly shifting city, nation, and world in which they lived. Investigating emigration from the Caribbean to Louisiana during the Haitian Revolution, commodity flows across urban-rural divides, multiracial amusement places, the local jail, and freedom-seeking migrations to Trinidad following the War of 1812, it remaps the history of slavery in modern urban society. | Click Here | Race | - |
| Wicked Flesh - Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World | Jessica Marie | Johnson | University of Pennsylvania Press | 2020 | Johnson draws on archival documents scattered in institutions across three continents, written in multiple languages and largely from the perspective of colonial officials and slave-owning men, to recreate black women's experiences from coastal Senegal to French Saint-Domingue to Spanish Cuba to the swampy outposts of the Gulf Coast. | Click Here | Race | - |
| Soul By Soul - Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market | Walter | Johnson | Harvard University Press | 1/1/1999 | Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations to the heart of the domestic slave trade. | Click Here | Race | - |
| Consent in the Presence of Force | Emily A. | Jones | The University of North Carolina Press | 12/2022 | Owens centers the survival strategies and intellectual labor of Black women enslaved in New Orleans to unravel the culture of violence they endured, in which slaveholders obscured the presence of force" with arrangements that included gifts and money." | Click Here | Women | Race |
| Louisiana Hayride - The American Rehearsal for Dictatorship 1928-1940 | Harnett | Kane | Publican Publishing Company | 1941 | Nearly all the books on this subject end with the death of Huey Long...Huey's prediction that his successors would never be able to wield great power without going to jail was borne out by events described in this book. Sam Houston, from the forward. | Click Here | - | - |
| A River and Its City - The Nature of Landscape In New Orleans | Ari | Kelman | University of California Press | 2/6/2003 | New Orleans's Mississippi levee is the key to unraveling the historical dialectic between a great river and an essentially amphibious city. It is also the monumental space of New Orleans''s past, where dark and plots and heroic dreams remain forever entangled. Mike Davis, from book jacket. | Click Here | Geography | - |
| History of New Orleans Volume II | John | Kendall | The Lewis Publishing Company | 1922 | Public Domain - As titled with minute detail of various topics. | Click Here | - | - |
| Big Chief Harrison and the Mardi Gras Indians | Al | Kennedy | Pelican Publishing Company | 2010 | From age four in 1937 to his death in 1998, Donald Harrison Sr. embraced the tradition of New Orleans' Mardi Gras Indians. As Big Chief of the Guardian of the Flames, he led with both wisdom and passion. This biography of this remarkable man is based on more than seventy interviews with his family and others he influenced. | Click Here | Culture | African American |
| Classic Restaurants of New Orleans | Alexandra | Kennon | American Palate | 11/4/2019 | Author Alexandra Kennon weaves the classic offerings of Creole grande dames together with contemporary neighborhood staples for a guide through the Crescent City’s culinary soul. | Click Here | Culture | |
| New Orleans - The Place and the People | Grace | King | The MacMillan Company | 1912 | A general recounting of the history of the city, told around the beginning of the 20th century. | Click Here | - | - |
| The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana - From 1542 to the Present | Fred | Kniffen | Louisiana State University Press | 1987 | Here is the most complete account available of the long and varied history of Louisiana's Native American population. | Click Here | Indigenous | - |
| Empire of Sin | Gary | Krist | Crown Publishers | 10/28/2014 | Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans’ thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city’s elite “better half” against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld of vice, perversity, and crime. | Click Here | - | - |
| Earl K. Long - The Saga of Uncle Earl and Louisiana Politics | Michael | Kurtz | Louisiana State University Press | 1990 | Michael L. Kurtz and Morgan D. Peoples provide new information from recently declassified FBI files concerning Earl's ties with organized crime figures, give the first comprehensive account of his stays in mental institutions in 1959, and offer factual information about his notorious relationship with the stripper Blaze Star. | Click Here | Corruption | - |
| Spectacular Wickedness: Sex, Race, and Memory in Storyville, New Orleans | Emily | Landau | Louisiana State University Press | 1/1/1908 | In Spectacular Wickedness, Emily Epstein Landau examines the social history of this famed district within the cultural context of developing racial, sexual, and gender ideologies and practices. | Click Here | Race | Culture |
| In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History | Mitch | Landrieu | Viking | 3/20/2018 | In his first book, Mayor Landrieu discusses his personal journey on race as well as the path he took to making the decision to remove the monuments, tackles the broader history of slavery, race and institutional inequities that still bedevil America, and traces his personal relationship to this history. | Click Here | Race | |
| History of the Boston Club | Stuart | Landry | Pelican Publishing | 7/1/1938 | As described in title. | Click Here | Culture | |
| The Day Freedom Died | Charles | Lane | Holt McDougal | 2009 | Following the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a town like many were African Americans and whites mingled uneasily. But on April 13, 1873, a small army of white ex–Confederate soldiers, enraged after attempts by freedmen to assert their new rights, killed more than sixty African Americans who had occupied a courthouse. | Click Here | Race | - |
| The Earl of Louisiana | A.J. | Liebling | Louisiana State University Press | 1960 | In the summer of 1959, A. J. Liebling, a veteran writer for the New Yorker, came to Louisiana to cover a series of bizarre events that began with Governor Earl K. Long commitment to a mental institution. Captivated by his subject, Liebling remained to write the fascinating yet tragic story of Uncle Earl's final year in politics. | Click Here | Corruption | - |
| Resilience and Opportunity - Lessons from the U.S. Gulf Coast After Katrina and Rita | Amy | Liu | Brookings Institution Press | 8/18/2011 | Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005. Commentary and analysis typically focused on what went wrong in the post-disaster emergency response. This forward-looking book, however, presents a more cautiously optimistic view about the region’s ability to bounce back after multiple disasters. | Click Here | Recovery | - |
| The Great Southern Babylon - Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans 1865-1920 | Alecia | Long | Louisiana State University Press | 2004 | Historian Alecia P. Long traces sex in the Crescent City over fifty years, drawing from Louisiana Supreme Court case testimony to relate intriguing tales of people both obscure and famous whose relationships and actions exemplify the era. | Click Here | Race | Culture |
| Insatiable City - Food and Race in New Orleans | Thersa | McCulla | University of Chicago Press | 2024 | Theresa McCulla probes the overt and covert ways that the production of food and the discourse about it both created and reinforced many strains of inequality in New Orleans, a city significantly defined by its foodways. | Click Here | | |
| From Slavery to Civil Rights - On the Streetcars of New Orleans 1830s-Present | Hillary | McLaughlin-Stonham | Liverpool University Press | 2020 | The history of Louisiana from slavery until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 shows that unique influences within the state were responsible for a distinctive political and social culture. Open access publication. | Click Here | Race | - |
| The Control of Nature | John | McPhee | Farrar Straus Giroux | 1989 | McPhee details the strategies and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. In this volume, McPhee examines three areas where this control has been most evident, including the long history of attempting to control the Mississippi River. | Click Here | Climate | |
| Path of Destruction - The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms | John | McQuaid | Little, Brown and Company | 2006 | Co-authored by Mark Schleifstein. Drawing upon historical records, cutting-edge geology, and the latest climatology studies, the authors reveal how changes in the earth's atmosphere, and the choices made by people and politicians, have created conditions that suggest the destruction of New Orleans and the Gulf may be only the beginning. | Click Here | Meteorology | Levees |
| A City Without Care - 300 Years of Racism, Health Disparities, and Health Care Activism in New Orleans | Kevin | McQueeney | The University of North Carolina Press | 2023 | ...McQueeney traces that inequity from the city's founding in the early eighteenth century through three centuries to the present. He argues that racist health disparities emerged as a key component of the city's slave-based economy and quickly became institutionalized... | Click Here | Healthcare | Race |
| Iberville's Gulf Journals | Richebourg | McWilliams | The University of Alabama Press | 7/7/2010 | As described in title. | Click Here | - | - |
| Germans of Louisiana | Ellen | Merrill | Pelican Publishing Company | 2005 | This book details the historic sites, settlement patterns, and important individuals whose influence is felt even today. | Click Here | - | - |
| Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century | Gwendolyn | Midlo Hall | Louisiana State University Press | 7/1/1995 | Although a number of important studies of American slavery have explored the formation of slave cultures in the English colonies, no book until now has undertaken a comprehensive assessment of the development of the distinctive Afro-Creole culture of colonial Louisiana. | Click Here | Race | - |
| All on a Mardi Gras Day | Reid | Mitchell | Harvard University Press | 1995 | ...Mitchell tells us some of the most intriguing stories of Carnival since 1804... | Click Here | Culture | - |
| Not Just the Levees Broke | Phyllis | Montana-Leblanc | Atria Books | 8/19/2008 | A Hurricane Katrina survivor previously profiled in Spike Lee's HBO documentary presents an account of her harrowing days in the Ninth Ward... (Amazon.) [Ed. Note - the lack of dates and times in this text makes the addition of the events to database difficult.] | Click Here | Impact | - |
| Revolt in Louisiana - The Spanish Occupation 1766-1770 | John | Moore | Louisiana State University Press | 1976 | Incorporating new material from French and Spanish archives that illuminate the colonial policy of the period, Reveol in Louisiana takes a fresh look at the founding of Spanish rule in Louisiana... | Click Here | - | - |
| John Law - Economic Theorist and Policy-Maker | Antoin | Murphy | Oxford University Press | 2018 | This is not the first study of the unusual Scotsman's career, but is by far the most complete and authoritative. Irish Times. | Click Here | - | - |
| Katrina's Secrets - Storms after the Storm | C. Ray | Nagin | C. Ray Nagin | 6/1/2011 | In this self-published book, the former Mayor gives his account of what happened before, during, and after the storm. | Click Here | Impact | FEMA |
| New Orleans After the Civil War - Race, Politics, and a New Birth of Freedom | Justin | Nystrom | Johns Hopkins University Press | 2010 | ...Nystrom's probing study of the aftermath of emancipation in New Orleans argues that the politics of Reconstruction were less of a binary struggle over political supremacy and morality than they were about a quest for stability in a word rendered uncertain and unfamiliar by the collapse of slavery. | Click Here | Race | - |
| Creole Italian - Sicilian Immigrants and the Shaping of New Orleans | Justin | Nystrom | The University of Georgia Press | 2018 | Justin A. Nystrom explores the influence Sicilian immigrants have had on New Orleans foodways. | Click Here | Culture | - |
| Why New Orleans Matters | Tom | Piazza | HarperCollins | 2005 | In Why New Orleans Matters, award-winning author and New Orleans resident Tom Piazza illuminates the storied culture and uncertain future of this great and most neglected of American cities. | Click Here | Impact | - |
| After The Flood | Robert | Polidori | Steidl | 11/15/2006 | A collection of haunting images from New Orleans taken shortly after Hurricane Katrina struck the city. | Click Here | - | - |
| The Accidental City - Improvising New Orleans | Lawrence | Powell | Harvard University Press | 2012 | Lawrence N. Powell, a decades-long resident and observer of New Orleans, gives us the full sweep of the city's history from its founding through Louisiana statehood in 1812. | Click Here | - | - |
| The Ballad of Robert Charles: Searching for the New Orleans Riot of 1900 | K. Stephen | Prince | University of North Carolina Press | 3/1/2021 | For a brief moment in the summer of 1900, Robert Charles was arguably the most infamous black man in the United States. After an altercation with police on a New Orleans street, Charles killed two police officers and fled. During a manhunt that extended for days, violent white mobs roamed the city, assaulting African Americans and killing at least half a dozen. | Click Here | Race | - |
| American Uprising - The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt | Daniel | Rasmussen | HarperCollins | 2011 | American Uprising is the riveting and long-neglected story of this elaborate plot [a slave-led plot to conquer New Orleans], the rebel army's dramatic march on the city, and its shocking conclusion. | Click Here | Race | Slavery |
| No Higher Honor - A Memoir of My Years in Washington | Condoleezza | Rice | Crown Publishers | 2011 | Rice shares her unique perspective on the most consequential political, diplomatic, and security issues of the Bush administration. | Click Here | - | - |
| Katrina After The Flood | Gary | Rivlin | Simon & Schuster | 8/11/2015 | Ten Years After Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana–on August 29, 2005–journalist Gary Rivlin traces the storm's immediate damage, the city of New Orleans's efforts to rebuild itself, and the storms lasting effects not just on the city's geography and infrastructure, but on the psychic, racial, and social fabric of one of this nation's' great cities. | Click Here | Impact | - |
| Louisiana: A History | John | Rodrique | Wiley Blackwell | 2014 | Sixth Edition. Wall, Rodrique, Cummins, Schafer, Haas, and Kurtz contributors. | Click Here | - | - |
| Spanish New Orleans | John Eugene | Rodriquez | LSU Press | 2021 | 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. | Click Here | Spain | |
| Louisiana Sugar Plantations During the Civil War | Charles | Roland | Louisiana State University Press | 1957 | This early work...draws from an abundance of primary sources to describe how the Civil War brought south Louisiana sugarcane industry to the brink of extinction, and disaster to the lives of civilians both black and white. | Click Here | Race | Slavery |
| Storyville, New Orleans | Al | Rose | University of Alabama Press | 1974 | As described in title. | Click Here | Culture | |
| 1 Dead in Attic - After Katrina | Chris | Rose | Simon & Schuster Paperbacks | 2007 | 1 Dead in the Attic is a collection of stories by Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose, recounting the first harrowing year and a half of life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. | Click Here | Impact | - |
| Words Whispered In Water – Why the Levees Broke in Hurricane Katrina | Sandy | Rosenthal | Mango Publishing Company | 8/11/2020 | Rosenthal founded Levees.org to uncover the truth and disseminate it to anyone who would listen. Follow this New Orleans hero as she exposes the Army Corp's egregious design errors and eventually changes the narrative surrounding the New Orleans flood. | Click Here | Levees | Army Corps |
| The Color of Law - A forgotten history of how our government segregated America | Richard | Rothstein | Liveright Publishing | 2017 | This "powerful and disturbing history" exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide. | Click Here | Race | - |
| Courage and Consequence - My Life as a Conservative in the Fight | Karl | Rove | Threshold Editions | 2010 | Karl Rove's book. | Click Here | - | - |
| Known and Unknown - A Memoir | Donald | Rumsfeld | Sentinel | 2011 | The former Secretary of Defense describes his his business and political career and his thoughts on his years in the Bush administration. | Click Here | - | - |
| Bouki Fait Gombo - A History of the Slave Community of Habitation Haydel | Ibrahim | Seck | UNO Press | 2014 | An exploration of slavery and its impact on southern culture, Bouki Fait Gombo is the first book to map the history of Habitation Haydel. Now known as the Whitney Plantation, the Haydel began operating in 1752 as an indigo producer and went on to become one of the most important sugar plantations in Louisiana. | Click Here | Race | Slavery |
| New Orleans - A Chronological and Documentary History | Martin | Siegel | Oceana Publications | 1975 | Part of a series of chronological histories of American cities. The author taught at Kean College of New Jersey. Limited issues available. | Click Here | - | - |
| Unveiling the Muse: The Lost History of Gay Carnival in New Orleans | Howard | Smith | University Press of Mississippi | 12/18/2017 | As described in title. | Click Here | Culture | LGBTQIA |
| A Paradise Built in Hell – The Extraordinary Communities That Arise In Disaster | Rebecca | Solnit | Penguin Group | 8/20/2009 | A Paradise Built in Hell travels through five major North American disasters, from the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco and the 1917 explosion that tore up Halifax, Nova Scotia, to the 1986 Mexico City earthquake, New York's 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, and reveals little-known but will-documented patterns of institutional failure, destructive beliefs, an extraordinary human achievement. | Click Here | Culture | - |
| Not Left Behind - Rescuing the Pets of New Orleans | Bob | Somerville | Yorkiville Press | 2006 | A Best Friends Animal Society publication about rescuing pets during and after Katrina. | Click Here | | |
| New Orleans on Parade - Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City | J. Mark | Souther | Louisiana State University Press | 2006 | New Orleans on Parade tells the story of the Big Easy in the twentieth century. In this urban biography, J. Mark Souther explores the Crescent City's architecture, music, food and alcohol, folklore and spiritualism, Mardi Gras festivities, and illicit sex commerce in revealing how New Orleans became a city that parades itself to visitors and residents alike. | Click Here | Tourism | Commerce |
| Creating The BIg Easy - New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism 1918-1945 | Anthony | Stanonis | University of Georgia Press | 8/1/2006 | Between the World Wars, New Orleans transformed its image from that of a corrupt and sullied port of call into that of a national tourist destination. Stanonis tells how boosters and politicians reinvented the city to build a modern mass tourism industry... | Click Here | Commerce | - |
| Race & Education In New Orleans | Walter | Stern | Louisiana State University Press | 2018 | By taking a long view of the interplay between education, race, and urban change, Stern underscores the fluidity of race as a social construct and the extent to which the Jim Crow system evolved through a dynamic though often improvisational process. | Click Here | Race | Education |
| The World That Made New Orleans - From Spanish Silver to Congo Square | Ned | Sublette | Lawrence Hill Books | 2008 | The World That Made New Orleans a new perspective on this insufficiently understood city by telling the remarkable story of New Orleans's first century-a tale of imperial war, religious conflict, the search for treasure, the spread of slavery,the Cuban connection, the cruel aristocracy of sugar, and the very different revolutions that created the United States and Haiti. | Click Here | Race | - |
| Voodoo in New Orleans | Robert | Tallant | | 10/1/1983 | Originally published by the Louisiana Writers' Project, this book spread the tourism myth of voodoo practices in New Orleans. | Click Here | Culture | |
| Louisiana Reconstructed, 1863-1877 | Joe | Taylor | Louisiana State University Press | 12/1/1974 | A more modern re-interpratation of the events during Reconstruction in New Orleans and Louisiana. | Click Here | Race | |
| The "Katrina Effect" On the Nature of Catastrophe | William | Taylor | Bloomsbury | 8/27/2015 | Perhaps no other disaster of the 21st century has so captured the global media's attention and featured in the 'imagination of disaster' like Katrina. The Katrina Effect charts the important ethical territory that underscores thinking about disaster and the built environment globally. | Click Here | Impact | - |
| On to New Orleans! Louisiana's Heroic 1811 Slave Revolt | Albert | Thrasher | Cypress Press | 1995 | A brief history with supporting reprints of articles relating to the uprising of slaves in January 1811, in the Territory of Orleans. | Click Here | Race | Slavery |
| Fearful Ravages: Yellow Fever in New Orleans, 1796-1905 | Benjamin | Trask | University of Louisiana | 12/31/2005 | Overview of the epidemics from 1796 until 1905 within their social, ethnic, medical, military, and economic context. | Click Here | Healthcare | - |
| Silencing The Past - Power and the Production of History | Michel-Rolph | Trouillot | Beacon Press | 1995 | In this provocative analysis of historical narrative, Michel-Rolph Trouillot demonstrates how power operates, often invisibly, at all stages in the making of history to silence certain voices. | Click Here | - | - |
| American Indians in Early New Orleans | Daniel | Usner | Louisiana State University Press | 2018 | In this groundbreaking narrative, Usner explores the array of ways that Native people used this river port city, from its founding to the World War I era, and demonstrates their crucial role in New Orleans's history. | Click Here | Indigenous | - |
| Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1783 | Daniel | Usner | Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press | 1/1/2014 | Daniel Usner examines the economic and cultural interactions among the Indians, Europeans, and African slaves of colonial Louisiana, including the province of West Florida. Rather than focusing on a single cultural group or on a particular economic activity, this study traces the complex social linkages among Indian villages, colonial plantations, hunting camps, military outposts, and port towns across a large region of pre-cotton South. | Click Here | Indigenous | - |
| The Storm – What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina | Ivor | van Heerden | Penguin Group | 5/18/2006 | In The Storm, van Heerden lays out in full detail the stunning incompetence among the bureaucrats, the politicians, and the Army Corps of Engineers that culminated in the catastrophe that crippled, perhaps forever, a great American city. | Click Here | Engineering | Levees |
| Deep Delta Justice - A Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South | Matthew | Van Meter | Little, Brown and Company | 2020 | In this powerful work of character-driven history, journalist Matthew Van Meter vividly brings alive how a seemingly minor incident brought massive, systemic change to the criminal justice system. - Amazon. | Click Here | Race | Legal |
| The "Baby Dolls" Breaking the Race and Gender Barriers of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Tradition | Kim Marie | Vaz | LSU Press | 1/18/2013 | Tracing their origins from Storyville brothels and dance halls to their re-emergence in post-Katrina New Orleans, author Kim Vaz uncovers the fascinating history of the "raddy-walking, shake-dancing, cigar-smoking, money-flinging" ladies that strutted their way into a predominantly male establishment. | Click Here | Women | Race |
| Walking Raddy: The Baby Dolls of New Orleans | Kim | Vaz-Deville | University Press of Mississippi | 5/17/2018 | Essayists draw on interviews, theoretical perspectives, archival material, and historical assessments to describe women's cultural performances that take place on the streets of New Orleans. They recount the history and contemporary resurgence of the Baby Dolls while delving into the larger cultural meaning of the phenomenon. | Click Here | Culture | Women |
| Facing Catastrophe - Environmental Action for a Post-Katrina World | Robert | Verchick | Harvard University Press | 2010 | What can we learn from past disasters - storms, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, and wildfires - about preparing for and responding to future catastrophes? How can these lessons be applied to a future threatened by climate change. | Click Here | Environment | - |
| Louisiana: A History | Bennett | Wall | The Forum Press | 1984 | First Edition. Wall, O'Neill, Hair, Carleton, and Kurtz contributors. | Click Here | | |
| Louisiana: A History | Bennett | Wall | Harlan Davidson | 1990 | Third Edition: Wall, Cummins, Schafer, Hass, and Kurtz contributors. | Click Here | | |
| Louisiana: A History | Bennett | Wall | Harlan Davidson | 2002 | Fourth Edition. Wall, Cummins, Schafer, Haas, and Kurtz contributors. | Click Here | - | - |
| The Louisiana Scalawags - Politics, Race, and Terrorism During the Civil War and Reconstruction | Frank | Wetta | Louisiana State University Press | 2012 | Frank J. Wetta offers the first in-depth analysis of these men and their struggle over the future of Louisiana. A significant assessment of the interplay of politics, race, and terrorism during Reconstruction, this study answers an array of questions about the origin and demise of the scalawags, and debunks much of the negative mythology surrounding them. | Click Here | Race | - |
| Kingfish - The Reign of Huey P. Long | Richard D. | White | Random House | 3/25/2009 | Kingfish is a balanced, lucid, and absolutely spellbinding portrait of the life and times of this incendiary figure. - From Alibris | Click Here | Corruption | |
| Huey Long | T. Harry | Williams | First Vintage Books | 1969 | Winner of the National Book Award in History and Biography and the Pulitzer Prize in Biography. | Click Here | Corruption | - |
| Mardi Gras Indians | Nikesha Elise | Williams | Louisiana State University Press | 2023 | Mardi Gras Indians explores how sacred and secular expressions of Carnival throughout the African diaspora came together in a gumbo-sized melting pot to birth one of the most unique traditions celebrating African culture, Indigenous peoples, and Black Americans. | Click Here | Culture | African American |
| Yellow fever, race, and ecology in nineteenth-century New Orleans | Urmi | Willoughby | LSU Press | 2017 | This book, " analyzes how incidences of and responses t the disease grew out of an environment shaped by sugar production, slavery, and urbban development." | Click Here | Healthcare | |
| The Civil War in Louisiana | John | Winters | Louisiana State University Press | 1963 | This comprehensive history fills an important gap in the story of the Civil War. Too often the war waged west of the Mississippi River has been given short shrift by historians and scholars, who have tended to focus their attention on the great battles east of the river. This book looks in detail at the military operations that occurred in Louisiana―most of them minor skirmishes, but some of them battles and campaigns of major importance. | Click Here | - | - |
| Development Drowned and Reborn | Clyde | Woods | University of Georgia Press | 7/1/2017 | This book is a blues 'geography' of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom struggle there to reckon with its unfinished business. Reading contemporary policies of abandonment against the grain, Clyde Woods explores how Hurricane Katrina brought the long-standing structures of domination into view. | Click Here | Race | - |
