Author: Times-Picayune Publishing Corporation
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781575712345
Category : New Orleans (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 309

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Author: Richard Scott
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780963541352
Category : Football
Languages : en
Pages : 118

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Author: Jason Berry
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146964715X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. Mayor Mitch Landrieu led the ceremony, attended by living legends of jazz, music aficionados, politicians, and everyday people. The scene captured the history and culture of the city in microcosm--a city legendary for its noisy, complicated, tradition-rich splendor. In City of a Million Dreams, Jason Berry delivers a character-driven history of New Orleans at its tricentennial. Chronicling cycles of invention, struggle, death, and rebirth, Berry reveals the city's survival as a triumph of diversity, its map-of-the-world neighborhoods marked by resilience despite hurricanes, epidemics, fires, and floods. Berry orchestrates a parade of vibrant personalities, from the founder Bienville, a warrior emblazoned with snake tattoos; to Governor William C. C. Claiborne, General Andrew Jackson, and Pere Antoine, an influential priest and secret agent of the Inquisition; Sister Gertrude Morgan, a street evangelist and visionary artist of the 1960s; and Michael White, the famous clarinetist who remade his life after losing everything in Hurricane Katrina. The textured profiles of this extraordinary cast furnish a dramatic narrative of the beloved city, famous the world over for mysterious rituals as people dance when they bury their dead.

Author: Nancy Dixon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692941928
Category : New Orleans (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Since its foundation in 1718, New Orleans has captured the imagination of people from around the world. Exiled immigrants, creative dreamers, fiery revolutionaries, and joyful vacationers journey to the city to experience its intoxicating mixture of cultures. The Crescent City is both cosmopolitan and distinctly American, a gumbo pot filled with ingredients from Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe that feeds new arrivals from every corner of the earth. New Orleans & The World: The Tricentennial Anthology commemorates the city¿s 300th anniversary by exploring the roles New Orleans has played on the global stage, and the ways that events and people from outside the city have fundamentally shaped its dynamic culture.

Author: Errol Laborde
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781455621606
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Author: Randy DeCuir
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781983472169
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Author: Casey Delmont Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999203330
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Discover in 300 blurbs everything you need to know about this classic American city. Published in honor of the tricentennial of New Orleans.

Author: Eleonora Rohland
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 178533932X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Hurricanes have been a constant in the history of New Orleans. Since before its settlement as a French colony in the eighteenth century, the land entwined between Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River has been lashed by powerful Gulf storms. Time and again, these hurricanes have wrought immeasurable loss and devastation, spurring reinvention and ingenuity on the part of inhabitants. Changes in the Air offers a rich and thoroughly researched history of how hurricanes have shaped and reshaped New Orleans from the colonial era to the present day, focusing on how its residents have adapted to a uniquely unpredictable and destructive environment across more than three centuries.

Author: Randy DeCUIR
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781983464669
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Volume One of a three part series. Each volume features one of three centuries of New Orleans Tricentennial.

Author: New Orleans International Muralists
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692980408
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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This is an activity book for children ages 6 - 17. It covers a small piece of New Orleans history of the past 300 years from the eyes of our artist collaborative.