Nicholls State University offers an online history degree with a special focus on modern and military history as well as an emphasis on Louisiana culture. World War II buffs will love the university’s relationship with the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, through which it offers a...
Tallant, Robert. Voodoo in New Orleans. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1946. 247 p. $2.50.No abstract is available for this article.Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Companydoi:10.1002/sce.3730300451None
and the chance to shoot on location in New Orleans freed him from the restraints of the studio and the backlot, and he drew on a roster of character actors as well as untrained locals to fill the frame. The morgue scene is startling, nearly a documentary with its offhanded dialogue, the...
Voodoo and Power: The Politics of Religion in New Orleans 1881–1940"Voodoo and Power: The Politics of Religion in New Orleans 1881–1940." Folklore, 128(3), pp. 321–322doi:10.1080/0015587X.2017.1308676EldridgeLaurenFolklore
This article concentrates on two examples of counter-monuments in New Orleans: the tomb of the Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau and the Carnival dress of Black Indians. It demonstrates how these counter-monumental forms have historically rejected white entitlement, recalling an alternative vision of New ...
Occupying the space between cultural reproduction and theatrical production, the HBO series Treme offers an important vantage point from which to analyze the intersection of race, class, culture, and media representation animating New Orleans's post-Katrina tourist identity. Treme illustrates the tension...
Detective John Blacksad returns, with a new case that takes him to a 1950s New Orleans filled with hot jazz and cold-blooded murder! Hired to discover the fate of a celebrated pianist, Blacksad finds his most dangerous mystery yet in the midst of drugs, voodoo, the rollicking atmosphere of...