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?”