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9:00 am to 9:45 am

State Capitol, Senate Chamber

Remember the First Ladies: The Legacies of America's History-Making Women

Diana B. CarlinAnita McBride, and Nancy Kegan Smith with moderator Rebecca Boggs Roberts

 


9:00 am to 10:00 am

Capitol Park Museum, Auditorium

White Supremacy, Civil Rights, and Violence: Being Black in the American South

John K. Bardes, The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930

Keith M. Finley, From Slavery to Segregation: Reckoning with White Supremacy in the American South

Corey J. Miles, Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South

with moderator Charisse Gibson

 


10:15 am to 11:15 am

Capitol Park Museum, Auditorium

Chronicles of South Louisiana

Errol Laborde, When Rex Met Zulu and Other Chronicles of the New Orleans Experience 

William J. Thibodeaux, Cajun Country Chronicles

 


10:45 am to 11:30 am

State Capitol, House Committee Room 4

The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South

Elizabeth N. Ellis

 

 


11:45 am to 12:30 pm

State Capitol, House Committee Room 4

Voodoo:  An African American Religion

Jeffrey E. Anderson

 


12:45 pm to 1:45 pm

State Capitol, House Committee Room 4

Larger than Life: True Stories of Powerful Men

Ralph Eric Criss, The Boss of New Orleans: Martin Behrman and Machine Politics in the Crescent City

James W. Miller, King of the Gun Runners: How a Philadelphia Fruit Importer Inspired a Revolution and Provoked the Spanish-American War

 


12:45 pm to 1:45 pm

State Capitol, House Committee Room 1

Muddy Mississippi: Past and Future

Ned Randolph, Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta: A Call for Reclamation

Boyce Upholt, The Great River: The Making and Un-Making of the Mississippi

with moderator Errol Laborde

 


2:15 pm to 3:00 pm

State Capitol, House Committee Room 5

Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson

Rebecca Boggs Roberts