619. Part 1 of our interview with Rien Fertel. “I’m a Louisiana-born
and based writer and teacher. My most recent book, out September 2022, is
Brown Pelican, a human history of the very best bird. I’ve penned three
earlier books. The Drive-By Truckers’ Southern Rock Opera, #133 in
Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series, about a road trip based on a recent classic
album about a road trip. The One True Barbecue: Fire, Smoke, and the Pitmasters Who Cook the Whole Hog,
Friday, March 28, 2025
Friday, March 21, 2025
618. Shannon Eaves, Part 2
Part 2 of our interview with Shannon Eaves. "Her book, Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South, was published by UNC Press in 2024. This study examines how the rape and sexual exploitation of enslaved women created a rape culture that was woven into the very fabric of antebellum society, influencing daily life for both the enslaved and enslavers....
Friday, March 14, 2025
617. Shannon Eaves, Part 1
617. Part 1 of our interview with Shannon Eaves. "Her book, Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South, was published by UNC Press in 2024. This study examines how the rape and sexual exploitation of enslaved women created a rape culture that was woven into the very fabric of antebellum society, influencing daily life for both the enslaved and enslavers....
Friday, March 7, 2025
616. Ed Branley, Part 2
616. Part 2 of Ed Branley's return to the podcast. This time the NOLA history guy talks to the most NOLA topic of them all
— Mardi Gras! Ed traces Carnival season and Mardi Gras from its humble beginnings to now Ed is a writer, teacher, historian, and computer nerd who lives in New Orleans. He graduated from the real Brother Martin High School. Edward dated several girls who attended the real St. Mary's Dominican High School, eventually marrying one of them.
Friday, February 28, 2025
615. Ed Branley, part 1
615. Part 1 of Ed Branley's return to the podcast. This time the NOLA history guy talks to the most NOLA topic of them all--Mardi Gras! Ed traces Carnival season and Mardi Gras from its humble beginnings to now Ed is a writer, teacher, historian, and computer nerd who lives in New Orleans. He graduated from the real Brother Martin High School. Edward dated several girls who attended the real St. Mary's Dominican High School, eventually marrying one of them.
Friday, February 21, 2025
614. Ana Croegaert, Part 2
614. Part 2 of out chat with Ana Croegaert about the removal
of Confederate monuments. We also talked to her about her
participation in second line parades around the city. “In 2017,
the City of New Orleans removed four segregation-era monuments
celebrating the Southern Confederacy and valorizing white
supremacist ideology. As in other cities, efforts to remove such
monuments are not new, and historically have been connected to
collective challenges to racialized inequality, and more
recently to transnational postcolonial struggles.
Saturday, February 15, 2025
613. Ana Croegaert, Part 1
613 Part 1 of out chat with Ana Croegaert about the removal of Confederate monuments. We also talked to her about her participation in second line parades around the city. “In 2017, the
City of New Orleans removed four segregation-era monuments celebrating
the Southern Confederacy and valorizing white supremacist ideology. As
in other cities, efforts to remove such monuments are not new, and
historically have been connected to collective challenges to racialized
inequality, and more recently to transnational postcolonial struggles.
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