New Orleans Historical
A project by The Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies at the University of New OrleansNew Orleans Historical is a web and mobile platform for sharing stories and scholarship about New Orleans and the surrounding area. A project of the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies at the University of New Orleans, New Orleans Historical is a free app available on your Android or iPhone smartphone or tablet as well as on the web.
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Zora Neale Hurston: Dust Tracks on the Road in Algiers, LA.
On August 6, 1928, Zora Neale Hurston wrote a letter from 7 Bellville Court, Algiers, Louisiana, to Langston Hughes in which she writes "I have landed in the kingdom of Marie Laveau and expect to wear her crown someday” (Kaplan, 124). In Algiers,…
Louise Williams Arnolie Deck at the University Center
Enter the University Center at the top of the horseshoe driveway. To your left is the university cafeteria, renamed in 2014 for Louise Williams Arnolie, one of the original 55 African-American students and the first of her group to graduate from the…
The Lyle Saxon House
In 1891, Lyle Saxon was born in Baton Rouge and, after attending Louisiana State University, moved to New Orleans to become a newspaper reporter. He played a pivotal role in the French Quarter Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. When Saxon moved to…
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