Friday, December 31, 2021

450. Ashley Steenson, part 2

450. Part 2 of our interview with Ashley Steenson. Ashley has been researching Teddy Roosevelt in Louisiana. He came here frequently to hunt, and he set up the first national park in Louisiana, Breton Island Reservation, on November 31, 1905.

Friday, December 24, 2021

Thursday, December 16, 2021

448. Bob Mann, Part 2

448. Part 2 of our interview with Bob Mann. Bob has a new memoir, Backrooms and Bayous: My Life in Louisiana Politics. State history, behind-the-scenes stories, funny anecdotes, and life lessons come together to form Robert Mann's indelible memoir about his life and career alongside some of the most powerful lawmakers in the South.

Thursday, December 9, 2021

447. Bob Mann, part 1.

447. Part 1 of our interview with Bob Mann. Bob has a new memoir, Backrooms and Bayous: My Life in Louisiana Politics. State history, behind-the-scenes stories, funny anecdotes, and life lessons come together to form Robert Mann's indelible memoir about his life and career alongside some of the most powerful lawmakers in the South.

Thursday, December 2, 2021

446. Stephen Winick, part 2

446. Part 2 of our conversation with Stephen Winick, of the Library of Congress. In 1902, on a prairie in southwest Louisiana, six members of a farming family are found murdered. Albert Edwin Batson, a white, itinerant farm worker, rapidly descends from likely suspect to likely lynching victim as people in the surrounding countryside lusted for vengeance.

Friday, November 26, 2021

445. Stephen Winick, part 1

445. Part 1 of our conversation with Stephen Winick, of the Library of Contress. In 1902, on a prairie in southwest Louisiana, six members of a farming family are found murdered. Albert Edwin Batson, a white, itinerant farm worker, rapidly descends from likely suspect to likely lynching victim as people in the surrounding countryside lusted for vengeance.

Friday, November 19, 2021

444. Christy Green, part 2

444. Part 2 of our conversation with Christy Green. M. Christian Green is a scholar, teacher, researcher, writer, and editor working in the fields of law, religion, ethics, human rights, and global affairs. 

Thursday, November 11, 2021

443. Christy Green, Part 1

443. Part 1 of our interview with Christy Green. M. Christian Green is a scholar, teacher, researcher, writer, and editor working in the fields of law, religion, ethics, human rights, and global affairs. 

Thursday, November 4, 2021

442. Melissa Daggett, part 2

442. Part 2 of our interview with Melissa Daggett about New Orleans spiritualism. Please join us when historian Melissa Daggett discusses her book, Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: The Life and Times of Henry Louis Rey.

Thursday, October 28, 2021

441. Melissa Daggett, part 1

441. Part 1 of our discussion with Melissa Daggett about New Orleans spiritualism in the 19th Century. Please join us when historian Melissa Daggett discusses her book, Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: The Life and Times of Henry Louis Rey.

Thursday, October 21, 2021

440. Evan Faulkenbury.

440. We talk to Evan Faulkenbury about his article, “‘Monroe is Hell’: Voter Purges, Registration Drives, and the Civil Rights Movement in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana,” Evan Faulkenbury is an associate professor of history at SUNY Cortland.

Friday, October 15, 2021

439. Shreveport Writers' Club, part 2

439. Part 2 of our interview with Shreveport Writers' Club. Since 1935, the Shreveport Writers Club has been a support group for writers. SWC includes writers from all stages of life in all genres and styles of writing.

Thursday, October 7, 2021

438. Shreveport Writers' Club, part 1

438. Part 1 of our talk to several members of the Shreveport Writers' Club: Tiffany Pennywell, president. M. L. Dumas, D. L. Holmes, and Lawrence Walton. They and others contributed to the recent anthology, For a Shorter Social Distance Tomorrow:

Friday, October 1, 2021

437. Mary Niall Mitchell

437. We talk to Mary Niall Mitchell about her research into Civil War pictures of freed slave children. Union forces used pictures of white slave children who had been freed in New Orleans as propaganda and to raise money for schools for freed slave children. The Louisiana Anthology has added two articles about these children and these pictures that appeared in Harper's Magazine, "Slave Children" and "White and Colored Slaves." 

Friday, September 24, 2021

436 Huey Long: Bogeyman or Superman?

436. Stephen and Bruce discuss a couple of articles on Huey Long, and the men who wrote them. On February 13, 1935, the New Republic published two articles on Huey Long: “How Come Huey Long? 1. Bogeyman? 2. Or Superman?”

Friday, September 17, 2021

435. Steven Shepard

435. We talk to Steven Shepard about his novel. Brother Against Brother: Civil War is a historical fictional novel about the Red River Campaign of the American Civil War as it was as experienced by Captain Douglas Ivey.

Thursday, September 9, 2021

434. Allendale Strong.

434. We talk to some members of Allendale Strong — Roosevelt Bryant, John Perkins, and Dorothy Wiley. Allendale is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Shreveport, and home to a rich history stretching back over a century. AllendaleStrong is a learning-doing group of citizens, working together to renew our community Relationally, Economically, and Environmentally.

Friday, September 3, 2021

433. Mary Gauthier sings and talks

433. Singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier joins us to discuss her new memoir, Saved by a Song. Mary Gauthier was twelve years old when she was given her Aunt Jenny’s old guitar and taught herself to play with a Mel Bay basic guitar workbook. Music offered her a window to a world where others felt the way she did.

Thursday, August 26, 2021

432. Scott Boatright, Part 2.

432. Part 2 of our interview with Scott Boatright. Longtime local journalist T. Scott Boatright has become the publisher and managing editor of the Lincoln Parish Journal. Boatright, 57, brings deep family ties and more than 35 years experience in our community serving the parish through local media outlets as well as both Louisiana Tech and Grambling State universities.

Thursday, August 19, 2021

431 Scott Boatright, Part 1.

431. Part 1 of our interview with Scott Boatright. Longtime local journalist T. Scott Boatright has become the publisher and managing editor of the Lincoln Parish Journal. Boatright, 57, brings deep family ties and more than 35 years experience in our community serving the parish through local media outlets as well as both Louisiana Tech and Grambling State universities.

Thursday, August 12, 2021

430. Katie Carmichael

430. We talk to Katie Carmichael about her dissertation, "The Yat Accent in New Orleans." Katie has studied the local 'yat' accent, both its history and its impact on local culture and humor.

Thursday, August 5, 2021

429. Harvey Kaye, Part 2

429. Part 2 of our interview with Harvey Kaye about Huey Long, FDR, and the New Deal. Harvey is an American historian and sociologist. He has written several political books including “Thomas Paine and the Promise of America”, and “The Fight for the Four Freedoms.”

Thursday, July 29, 2021

428. Harvey Kaye, Part 1

428. Part 1 of our interview Harvey Kaye about Huey Long, FDR, and the New Deal. Harvey is an American historian and sociologist. Kaye is an author of several political books including “Thomas Paine and the Promise of America”, and “The Fight for the Four Freedoms.”

Thursday, July 22, 2021

427. Mike Bunn. West Florida

427. We interview Mike Bunn about his book on West Florida, Fourteenth Colony: The Forgotten Story of the Gulf South During America's Revolutionary Era. “Mike Bunn has written the first thorough history of West Florida, a British colony in America during the era of the American Revolution.

Thursday, July 15, 2021

426. Coushatta Baskets, Part 2

Episode 426. Part 2 of our interview with Denise Bates and Linda Langley about Coushatta Baskets and the people who make them. Louisiana Coushatta Basket Makers brings together oral histories, tribal records, archival materials, and archaeological evidence to explore the fascinating history of the Coushatta Tribe’s famed basket weavers.

Thursday, July 8, 2021

425. Coushatta Baskets, Part 1

Episode 425. Part 1 of our interview with Denise Bates and Linda Langley about Coushatta Baskets and the people who make them. Louisiana Coushatta Basket Makers brings together oral histories, tribal records, archival materials, and archaeological evidence to explore the fascinating history of the Coushatta Tribe’s famed basket weavers.

Thursday, July 1, 2021

424. Clint Bruce. Afro-Creole Poetry.

424. We interview Clint Bruce, author of Afro-Creole Poetry in French from Louisiana’s Radical Civil War–Era Newspapers:A Bilingual Edition. Collected here for the first time, seventy-nine poems published in the Civil War-era Afro-Creole New Orleans newspapers L'Union and La Tribune--most unavailable anywhere but in archives--bring to life a close-knit, politically progressive French-speaking community of artists and intellectuals whose cultural and legal legacies were monumental.

Friday, June 25, 2021

423. Ken Miller

423. We talk to Ken Miller of Lafayette. He has become interested in local politics in recent years. Ken is the founder of the Blackthorn PAC, which is actively raising and spending on comprehensive media and digital campaigns to shed light on elected officials or those running for office that were in support of, or involved in, the January 6 insurrection.

Friday, June 18, 2021

422. Elista Istre, part 2.

422. Part 2 of our interview with Dr. Elista Istre, author of Creoles of South Louisiana: Three Centuries Strong. Elista, an avid traveler with a passion for cultures across the globe, founded Belle Heritage™ to offer consulting expertise and create cultural experiences that inspire individuals and organizations to celebrate the beauty of heritage.

Friday, June 11, 2021

421. Elista Istre, part 1

421. Part 1 of our interview with Dr. Elista Istre, author of Creoles of South Louisiana: Three Centuries Strong. Elista, an avid traveler with a passion for cultures across the globe, founded Belle Heritage™ to offer consulting expertise and create cultural experiences that inspire individuals and organizations to celebrate the beauty of heritage.

Thursday, June 3, 2021

420. Fatima Shaik. "Economy Hall."

420. We talk to Fatima Shaik about her new book, Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood. "With Economy Hall, author Fatima Shaik brings to light the free Black New Orleans brotherhood that supported its community through slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, white terrorism, and the birth of jazz."

Thursday, May 27, 2021

419. Lamar White Visits for our 8th/9th Anniversary Episode

419. Lamar White returns for our Anniversary episode. We started the Louisiana Anthology in 2012, and the Louisiana Anthology Podcast in 2013. So it's our episode celebrating our 8th Podcast Anniversary and 9th Anthology Anniversary.

Thursday, May 20, 2021

418. Nathan Rabalais. Louisiana Folktales.

418. We talk to Nathan Rabalais about his new book, Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana. Nathan J. Rabalais examines the impact of Louisiana’s remarkably diverse cultural and ethnic groups on folklore characters and motifs during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 

Thursday, May 13, 2021

417. Julien Vernet, part 2

417. Part 2 of our interview with Julien Vernet about his work, Strangers on Their Native Soil: Opposition to United States' Governance in Louisiana's Orleans Territory, 1803-1809. "After the United States purchased Louisiana, many inhabitants of the new American territory believed that Louisiana would quickly be incorporated into the Union and that they would soon enjoy rights as citizens.

Thursday, May 6, 2021

416. Julien Vernet, Part 1

 416. Part 1 of our talk with Julien Vernet. Strangers on Their Native Soil: Opposition to United States' Governance in Louisiana's Orleans Territory, 1803-1809. "After the United States purchased Louisiana, many inhabitants of the new American territory believed that Louisiana would quickly be incorporated into the Union and that they would soon enjoy rights as citizens.

Thursday, April 29, 2021

415. Marian Denise Moore

415. We talk to Marian Denise Moore about her book, Louisiana Midrash. Marian is a computer analyst as well as a poet.

Thursday, April 22, 2021

414. Matthew White, part 2

 414. Part 2 of our interview with photographer and musician Matthew D. White. "I am a photographer living in New Orleans. Most of my work is centered on the south Louisiana landscape, the US Gulf Coast, and South Florida. I have been photographing the Louisiana coast from Sabine Pass to the mouth of the Mississippi for more than 15 years.

Friday, April 16, 2021

413. Matthew White, part 1

413. We interview photographer and musician Matthew D. White. "I am a photographer living in New Orleans. Most of my work is centered on the south Louisiana landscape, the US Gulf Coast, and South Florida. I have been photographing the Louisiana coast from Sabine Pass to the mouth of the Mississippi for more than 15 years.

Thursday, April 1, 2021

411. Hardette Harris, North LA Cooking, part 2

411. Part 2 of our interview with Hardette Harris on North Louisiana Cooking. Chef Harris is originally from Minden, Louisiana and was recently named by Louisiana Life Magazine as a “2017 Louisianian of the Year.”

Thursday, March 25, 2021

410. Hardette Harris, part 1

410. Part 1 of our interview with Hardette Harris about North Louisiana Cooking. Chef Harris is originally from Minden, Louisiana and was recently named by Louisiana Life Magazine as a “2017 Louisianian of the Year.”

Thursday, March 18, 2021

Friday, March 12, 2021

408. Ron McFarland, "Evangeline," part 1.

408. Part 1 of our interview with Ron McFarland about Evangeline.
"Ye who believe in affection that hopes, and endures, and is patient,
Ye who believe in the beauty and strength of woman's devotion,
List to the mournful tradition still sung by the pines of the forest;
List to a Tale of Love in Acadie, home of the happy."

Thursday, March 4, 2021

407. Maddie Lafuse, part 2.

407. Part 2 of our interview with Maddie Lafuse about Marie Laveau. Marie Laveau was a Louisiana Creole practitioner of Voodoo, herbalist and midwife who was renowned in New Orleans. Her daughter, Marie Laveau II, (1827–c. 1862) also practiced rootwork, conjure, Native American and African spiritualism as well as Louisiana Voodoo.

Thursday, February 25, 2021

406. Maddie Lafuse on Marie Laveau

406. Maddie Lafuse talks to us about Marie Laveau. Part 1. Marie Laveau was a Louisiana Creole practitioner of Voodoo, herbalist and midwife who was renowned in New Orleans. Her daughter, Marie Laveau II, (1827–c. 1862) also practiced rootwork, conjure, Native American and African spiritualism as well as Louisiana Voodoo.

Thursday, February 18, 2021

405. John DeSantis on the Thibodaux Massacre

405. As part of our Black History Month emphasis, Jeffrey Barrois from Good Morning Comrade joins us to interview John DeSantis about his book, The Thibodaux Massacre: Racial Violence and the 1887 Sugar Cane Labor Strike. On November 23, 1887, white vigilantes gunned down unarmed black laborers and their families during a spree lasting more than two hours. The violence erupted due to strikes on Louisiana sugar cane plantations.

Thursday, February 11, 2021

Thursday, February 4, 2021

403. Maggie Collins

403. Our interview with Maggie Collins about her novel, Celestial Blue Skies. In Belle Place, Louisiana, where the sugarcane grows a mile high to the bright blue sky, Celeste struggles with her mentally ill mother, Tut, and works with her grandmother Maymay to hold the Creole Bastille family together.

Thursday, January 28, 2021

402. Thomas Ruys Smith on Sam Clemens at Mardi Gras

402. Thomas Ruys Smith discusses Sam Clemens and Mardi Gras. "On March 8 1859, a 23 year old trainee steamboat pilot named Samuel Clemens, a month away from getting his full pilot’s license, arrived in New Orleans after a week’s voyage down the Mississippi from St. Louis.

Thursday, January 21, 2021

401. Timothy Bartel. "Evangeline." Part 2.

401. Part 2 of our interview with Timothy Bartel about Evangeline. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline was a bestseller in nineteenth-century America, inspiring generations of readers with a heroine who overcomes colonial violence and exile in her romantic and spiritual quest across America.

Thursday, January 14, 2021

400. Timothy Bartel, "Evangeline," part 1.

400. Part 1 of our interview with Timothy Bartel about Evangeline. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline was a bestseller in nineteenth-century America, inspiring generations of readers with a heroine who overcomes colonial violence and exile in her romantic and spiritual quest across America.

Thursday, January 7, 2021

399. David and Ashley Havird, part 2

399. Part 2 of our interview with David and Ashley Havird. They joined us to read and discuss some of their poetry.