History
9:00 am to 9:45 am
Outside Museum, North Tent
French in the Morning: A History of Cajun Radio
Noah Arceneaux with moderator David Johnson
9:30 am to 10:30 am
Capitol Park Museum, First Floor, Auditorium
The Wider Story: Untold Histories of the American Revolution and Expansion
Richard Bell, The American Revolution and the Fate of the World
Denise Kiernan, Obstinate Daughters: The Rebels, Writers, and Renegade Women Who Ignited the American Revolution
Alexander Mikaberidze, The Louisiana Purchase: The Grand Bargain and the Making of America
with moderator Jared Wells
This panel made possible in part by a Strategic Partnership Grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.
9:30 am to 10:15 am
Bienville Building, First Floor, Conference Center 173
The Road to Cisterna: Darby’s Rangers and Their Most Consequential Battle in World War II
David Lyle Williams
10:00 am to 10:45 am
Outside Museum, North Tent
Rituals of New Orleans: Coffee, Celebration, and the Making of Culture
Laura Guccione, St. Joseph's Day in New Orleans
Marielle Songy, Coffee Culture New Orleans
with moderator David Johnson
10:45 am to 11:45 am
Capitol Park Museum, First Floor, Auditorium
Lincoln’s Republic: Election, War, and the Struggle for the Union
A.J. Cade, Death or Victory: The Louisiana Native Guards & the Black Military's Significance in the Civil War
Jonathan Earle, He Has the People: Abraham Lincoln and the Election of 1860
Scott Ellsworth, Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America
with moderator Gaines Foster
This panel made possible in part by a Strategic Partnership Grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.
Noon to 1:00 pm
Capitol Park Museum, First Floor, Auditorium
Unsettled: Myth and Reality on the American Frontier
Peter Cozzens, Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West
Megan Kate Nelson, The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier
with moderator Richard Bell
This panel made possible in part by a Strategic Partnership Grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.
Noon to 12:45 pm
Outside Museum, North Tent
Killing the Kingfish: The Huey Long Assassination
Jack B. McGuire with moderator Robert Mann
1:15 pm to 2:00 pm
Capitol Park Museum, First Floor, Auditorium
The Feather Wars and the Great Crusade to Save America’s Birds
James H. McCommons with moderator Danny Heitman
This panel made possible in part by a Strategic Partnership Grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.
1:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Outside Museum, North Tent
Le Grand Dérangement: The Acadian Story in Fact and Fiction
Ryan U. Bernard, The Bernards of Louisiana: An Acadian Family History
Marianne Rabalais Sulser, Like Snow Before Sun
with moderator Rien Fertel
2:15 pm to 3:00 pm
Capitol Park Museum, First Floor, Auditorium
Stone and Story: Biographies of American Monuments
Matthew Davis, Biography of a Mountain: The Making of Mount Rushmore
Brian Jay Jones, The Capitol: The Surprising Biography of an American Building
with moderator Robert Mann
This panel made possible in part by a Strategic Partnership Grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.
2:15 pm to 3:00 pm
Bienville Building, First Floor, Conference Center 173
Hard Scrabble to Hallelujah, Vol. II: The Bowie Brothers and Bayou Buffalo (DuLarge)
Christopher E. Cenac