Historic New Orleans Collection
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Captive State: Louisiana and the Making of Mass Incarceration
$19.95 Add to cartFor decades, Louisiana has had the highest incarceration rate in the United States. If it were a country, it would have the second-highest incarceration rate in the world. Far from a modern phenomenon… [more below]
- Author: Seiferth, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0917860942
- Language: English
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Call Me Larry: A Creole Man’s Triumph Over Racism and Homophobia
$24.95 Add to cartRaised in a large, loving Creole family, Lawrence Bagneris Jr. knew from a young age that he liked boys. But New Orleans in the 1950s and early 1960s wasn’t an easy place to be out. In high school, h
- Author: Bagneris, Larry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0917860934
- Language: English
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Enrique Alférez: Sculptor
$49.95 Add to cartEnrique Alf rez was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, but for almost seventy years, he worked in New Orleans, where he left a lasting imprint through his figurative sculptures, monuments, and fountains. Kati
- Series: Louisiana Artists Biography
- Author: Bowler Young, Katie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0917860853
- Language: English
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Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana
$19.95 Add to cartMonumental tells, for the first time, the incredible story of Oscar James Dunn, a New Orleanian born into slavery who became America’s first Black lieutenant governor and acting governor. A champion o
- Author: Mitchell, Brian K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0917860837
- Language: English
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Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood
$34.95 Add to cartSelected by Kirkus for “Best of 2021: Our Favorite Nonfiction”
It is impossible to imagine New Orleans, and by extension American history, without the vibrant and singular Creole culture. In the face o
- Author: Shaik, Fatima
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 25 2021
- ISBN10: 0917860802
- Language: English
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Louisiana Lens: Photographs from the Historic New Orleans Collection
$49.95 Add to cartLouisiana Lens surveys 180 years of photographic encounters with one of America’s most evocative regions: from early daguerreotypes of New Orleans landmarks to haunting post-Civil War landscapes to bo… [more below]
- Author: Lawrence, John H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0917860918
- Language: English
