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  • A History of New Orleans(510 clicks)
    By Donnald McNabb & Lee Madere. History of this unique American city.
  • Amateur film: New Orleans Carnival Week, February 22, 1941(517 clicks)
  • Essays on New Orleans History(617 clicks)
  • History of Mardi Gras(525 clicks)
    Information on this famous New Orleans celebration.
  • Huey P. Long(483 clicks)
    Biography of the infamous governor.
  • Huey P. Long(573 clicks)
  • King of Louisiana, and Other Goverment Work(447 clicks)
    A Biography of Major General Nathaniel Prentice Banks, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives by Raymond H. Banks
  • Louisiana Cajun Music from the 1920s-1970s(459 clicks)
  • Mardi Gras Indians(564 clicks)
    Mardi Gras is full of secrets and the Mardi Gras Indians are as much a part of that secret society as any other carnival organization. The Mardi Gras Indians are comprised, in large part, of the blacks of New Orleans' inner cities. They have paraded for well over a century...yet their parade is perhaps the least recognized Mardi Gras tradition.
  • New Orleans(554 clicks)
    PBS program
  • New Orleans Pharmacy Museum(804 clicks)
    "The New Orleans Pharmacy Museum is located in the historic 1823 apothecary shop of Louis Joseph Dufilho, Jr., America’s first licensed pharmacist (1816). Dufilho’s pharmacy opened as a museum in 1950 and is operated by the non-profit organization, Friends of Historical Pharmacy."
  • Southeastern Louisiana(488 clicks)
    History and culture
  • Tulane University Special Collections(491 clicks)
    Here you will find information about our University Archives, Jazz Archives, Rare Books, Louisiana Collection, Architectural Archives, and Manuscripts Department.