Readings and Book Talks
S. L. Alexander, Courtroom Carnival: Famous New Orleans Trials
Patricia Brady, A Being So Gentle: The Frontier Love Story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson
Richard Campanella, Lincoln in New Orleans: The 1828-1831 Flatboat Voyages and Their Place in History
Randy Fertel, The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak: A New Orleans Family Memoir
Philippe R. Girard, The Slaves Who Defeated Napoleon: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian War of Independence, 1801-1804
Rodger Kamenetz, Burnt Books: Rabbi Nachman of Bratzlav and Franz Kafka
Victoria Cosner Love, Mad Madame Lalaurie: New Orleans’s Most Famous Murderess Revealed
Robert Mann, Daisy Petals and Mushroom Clouds:
LBJ, Barry Goldwater and the Ad that Changed American Politics
Justin Nystrom, New Orleans after the Civil War: Race, Politics, and a New Birth of Freedom
Cyril E. Vetter, Dirtdobber Blues
Richard D. White, Will Rogers: A Political Life
Discussions
Andre Dubus II: Honoring the Writer, Remembering the Man
Andre Dubus II, a Louisiana born-and-bred writer of prose, both fiction and nonfiction, is remembered in particular for his way with a short story. He is also known for his strong Catholic faith and a difficult life marked by an accident that, in time, left him wheelchair bound. In this panel his sister, Kathryn Dubus, and son, acclaimed writer Andre Dubus III, talk about the man beyond the biography as well as the essays and fiction that continue to draw admiration twelve years after his death. Katheryn Krotzer Laborde, writer and Managing Editor of Xavier Review Press, moderates.The Civil War's Collateral Damage: Not Just Northern Aggression
Two novels set during the War Between the States, Kelby Ouchley’s Iron Branchand Steve Yates’s Morkan’s Quarry, take different approaches in examining the impact of those caught in between. Moderated by David Madden.Edwin Edwards, Governor of Louisiana
Leo Honeycutt and Edwin E. EdwardsA More Noble Cause: A. P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana
Alexander P. Tureaud, Jr. and Rachel Emanuel discuss the life of one of the most influential figures in Louisiana's courts, attorney Alexaner Pierre Tureaud, Sr., presenting both the powerful story of one man's lifelong battle for racial justice and the very personal biography of a black professional and his family in the Jim Crow-era Louisiana.Telling Louisiana’s Story through Words and Images
Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, Chairman of the Louisiana Bicentennial Commission, moderates Carl A. Brasseaux, Al Godoy, Phillip Gould, Tika Laudun and C. E. Richard who through their books, photographs, and film have created exceptional contributions to preserving our state's history.