History
9:00 am to 9:45 am
State Library, Second Floor, Meeting Room
From the Quad to the Broadcast Booth: Telling Louisiana’s University Stories
Chris Kennedy, Louisiana Tech’s Dave Nitz: The Voice of Bulldogs
Michael S. Martin and Zachary G. Stein, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
9:00 am to 9:45 am
State Library, Fourth Floor
Louisiana Spirits: Haunted History
Nicole Beauchamp, Haunted French Quarter Hotels
Michael Wynne, Haunted Central Louisiana
9:00 am to 9:45 am
State Library, Fifth Floor, Capitol View Room
The Etruscans and the Jews: New Orleans Echoes, Sardinian Shadows, Roman Shame
Peter M. Wolf with moderator Jim Engster
9:00 am to 9:45 am
A.Z. Young Park, Author Tent A
Shreveport Martyr Father Jean Pierre: Fearful Steps Strengthened by Hope
Cheryl H. White with moderator Colleen Dulle
10:00 am to 10:45 am
State Library, Second Floor, Meeting Room
Sickly Vapors: Disease and Doctoring in the Old South
Thomas Helling with moderator Tracy Carr
10:00 am to 10:45 am
Outside Museum, North Tent
American Scare: Florida’s Hidden Cold War on Black and Queer Lives
Robert W. Fieseler with moderator A.E. Rooks
11:00 am to 11:45 am
State Library, Fifth Floor, Capitol View Room
America’s Greatest Library: An Illustrated History of the Library of Congress
John Y. Cole with moderator Tracy Carr
11:00 am to 11:45 am
State Library, Second Floor, Meeting Room
Beneath Heavy Pines in World War II Louisiana
Hayley Johnson and Sarah Simms with moderator Morgan Tarpley Smith
11:00 am to 11:45 am
State Library, Fourth Floor
Captive State: Louisiana and the Making of Mass Incarceration
Eric Seiferth and Nick Weldon
11:00 am to 11:45 am
Capitol Park Museum, First Floor, Auditorium
Crossroads, Cutoffs, and Confluences: Origins of Louisiana Cities, Towns, and Villages
Richard Campanella
Noon to 12:45 pm
State Library, Third Floor
Pinchback and Long: Populism, Progress, and Political Power
Nicholas Patler, Pinchback: America’s First Black Governor
Thomas E. Patterson, American Populist: Huey Long of Louisiana
with moderator David Johnson
Noon to 12:45 pm
Outside Museum, North Tent
The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfield, Visionary of Weimar Berlin
Daniel Brook with moderator Gary Richards
Noon to 12:45 pm
Outside Museum, South Tent
The Creole Gumbo of Identity: Lineage, Passing, and the Ingredients of Race
John W. Durel, Descendants: The Divided Lineage of a Louisiana Creole Family
with moderator Dr. Joy Banner
1:00 pm to 1:45 pm
State Library, Third Floor
Fractured Freedoms: Reconstructing Central Louisiana
David T. Ballantyne
1:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Outside Museum, North Tent
Passageways and Foodways: Slavery and Racism in the Formation of Southern Cities
Jennie Lightweis-Goff, Captive City: Meditations on Slavery in the Urban South
Theresa McCulla, Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans
with moderator Eva Semien Baham
2:00 pm to 2:45 pm
State Library, Third Floor
Exceptional City, Dangerous Frontier: Unpacking New Orleans History
Charles D. Chamberlain, New Orleans: A Concise History of an Exceptional City
David Michael Schneider, Crime in Colonial New Orleans: Terror on the Frontier
2:00 pm to 2:45 pm
Outside Museum, North Tent
Rainbow Fleur de Lis: Essays on Queer New Orleans History
Frank Perez with moderator Alecia P. Long