The Favrot family is among the most venerable in Louisiana, with a continuous presence there dating to 1728. From the French colonial period, through four decades of Spanish colonial rule, followed by U.S. statehood, secession, and the Civil War, and ultimately into the modern era, the Favrots have remained influential. The family's story offers a lens through which to view the complex and often-turbulent history of Louisiana. This book traces the story of eight generations of the Favrot family, with a focus on the direct line from Joseph-Claude to Henri Mortimer, Jr. The narrative is based in large parts on material from the Favrot Family Papers, which are housed at Tulane University's Howard-Tilton Memorial Library. From that foundation, the book places the family's personal experiences and observations into the broader context of Louisiana history.

The Favrot Family of Louisiana: A History Over Three Centuries

Biographies & Memoirs

Moeller Jr., G. Martin

Historical

University of New Orleans Press

J. Richard Gruber's latest monograph on William Christenberry, explores the artist's work and how it relates to the cultural production of previous generations of Christenberrys. The book adds to the body of art historical texts, concerning itself not only with the work of William Christenberry but also with art from the American South and Southern American culture.

William Christenberry: Art & Family

Arts & Photography

Gruber, Richard J.

History & Criticism

This is New Orleans history through place―less from the Andrew Jackson slept here style and more This is where my parents met style: barrooms as comfortable as living rooms, an empty lot that holds more life than many houses, a barbershop that doubles as an artist's studio, and a museum that grew out of one man's back shed. Through interviews, photographs, site maps, and architectural drawings, we document the intersections of places and people that make New Orleans great.

Cornerstones:: Celebrating the Everyday Monuments & Gathering Places of New Orleans

History

Rachel Breunlin

Abram Himelstein

Bethany Rogers

Americas

Voices Rising II is the second book created from the archives of The Katrina Narrative Project, a sweeping enterprise by the University of New Orleans to collect diverse accounts and histories from Louisiana citizens who endured Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Culled from hundreds of manuscripts, audio recordings and interviews housed at the University of New Orleans Library, the stories provide an exceptional record for the understanding and study of collapse and reorganization, disaster and recovery.

Voices Rising II: More Stories from the Katrina Narrative Project

Antoine, Rebeca

Written by the members during the year after Katrina, Nine Times writes about their lives, their parades, the storm, and the rebuilding process. Through interviews, photographs, and writing, Nine Times brings readers into their world of second lines, brass bands, Magee's Lounge, and the ties that bind.

Coming Out The Door For The Ninth Ward

Nine Times

Community & Culture

A House Divided

Set in the civil rights era, A House Divided explores the private and public lives of two men, united in philosophy and friendship but divided by race, class and the circumstances of their rearing―and how their personal choices affect their public lives. The novel is at once a murder mystery and a reflection on a turbulent time in American history.

Literature & Fiction

Barton, Frederick

United States

Set in the civil rights era, A House Divided explores the private and public lives of two men, united in philosophy and friendship but divided by race, class and the circumstances of their rearing ―and how their personal choices affect their public lives. The novel is at once a murder mystery and a reflection on a turbulent time in American history.

The Katrina Papers is not your average memoir. It is a fusion of many kinds of writing, including intellectual autobiography, personal narrative, political/cultural analysis, spiritual journal, literary history, and poetry. Though it is the record of one man’s experience of Hurricane Katrina, it is a record that is fully a part of his life and work as a scholar, political activist, and professor. The Katrina Papers provides space not only for the traumatic events but also for ruminations on authors such as Richard Wright and theorists like Deleuze and Guattarri. The result is a complex though thoroughly accessible book. The struggle with form― the search for a medium proper to the complex social, personal, and political ramifications of an event unprecedented in this scholar’s life and in American social history― lies at the very heart of The Katrina Papers. The book depicts an enigmatic and multi-stranded world view which takes the local as its nexus for understanding the global. It resists the temptation to simplify or clarify when simplification and clarification are not possible. Ward’s narrative is, at times, very direct, but he always refuses to simplify the complex emotional and spiritual volatility of the process and the historical moment that he is witnessing. The end result is an honesty that is both pedagogical and inspiring. ―Hank Lazer

Katrina Papers: A Journal of Trauma and Recovery

Ward, Jerry W.

His subjects range from close self-analysis to abstract considerations of time and place, but essentially he is interested in adapting traditional poetics to fit contemporary situations.

Gallery Of Ghosts

Gery, John

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina battered the Gulf Coast and nearly toppled the historic city of New Orleans. As the storm cleared, residents watched water and chaos overtake their city, while political and legal systems proved unprepared and insufficient. The University of New Orleans served as a base for rescue and sustained tremendous damage to its Lakefront campus, but, in October 2005, the university reopened online and asked students to submit interviews and accounts of citizens' experiences during Hurricane Katrina. Hundreds of manuscripts, interviews, and transcripts were collected from students and other residents who were willing to share their personal stories of the disaster. UNO compiled all of the submissions and created The Katrina Narrative Project, which is currently housed at the University of New Orleans Library. Voices Rising is a sampling of this greater collection. Transcending the images and headlines portrayed in the media, these are the true accounts of trauma and survival told by the people who endured them.

Voices Rising:: Stories from the Katrina Narrative Project

Sports & Outdoors

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The Favrot Family of Louisiana: A History Over Three Centuries

William Christenberry: Art & Family

Cornerstones:: Celebrating the Everyday Monuments & Gathering Places of New Orleans

Voices Rising II: More Stories from the Katrina Narrative Project

Coming Out The Door For The Ninth Ward

A House Divided

A House Divided

Katrina Papers: A Journal of Trauma and Recovery

Gallery Of Ghosts

Voices Rising:: Stories from the Katrina Narrative Project