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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Louisiana--History"”.
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The Acadians of Southwest Louisiana
The annals of history have often disclosed the dark stories of strong peoples of this world who have seized their weaker neighbors, exiling them from their homes and firesides, and forcing them to begin life anew in a foreign land among strange and sometimes hostile people. Two centuries ago a …
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Rethinking representations of slave life a historical plantation museums: towards a commemorative museum pedagogy
… at Magnolia Mound Plantation (MMP) in south Louisiana to better understand the limits and possibilities of expanding slave life representations at this museum. I implemented the study using action research and archival research. Action research involved ethnographic methodologies including …
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Slavery and the origins of Louisiana’s prison industry, 1803-1861
… shaping a system of for-profit incarcerations in Louisiana between 1803 and 1862. In doing so, it challenges the conventional historical narrative of American penal development, which identifies the origins of the prison industrial complex in the decades following the abolition of slavery in the …
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"The Free State of New Orleans": Local Law Enforcement and Illegal Gambling in the 1920s
… will focus on a series of raids mounted by the Louisiana National Guard to end illegal gambling in both St. Bernard and Jefferson Parishes in August and November of 1928 and again in February of 1929. Corrupt leadership and public toleration allowed gambling houses in both St. Bernard and …
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A Stirling Education: Education in Antebellum Louisiana
… prominent West Feliciana families found in the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections (LLMVC) at the LSU libraries in an effort to understand how Louisianans’ value and support education. The antebellum period was chosen for study because it was arguably the last time period in which …