Marie Laveau: Voodoo PriestessBy Carolyn Morrow Long A free woman of color descended from enslaved Africans and French colonists, Marie Laveau is known as the Voudou Q...
THE AXEMAN OF NEW ORLEANS: A JAZZ-LOVING JACK THE RIPPERTHE AXEMAN FORCED A CITY TO LISTEN TO JAZZ TO AVOID HIS TERRIFYING WRATH. From May 1918 to October 1919, a serial killer aptly named the ...
The Saffron Scourge in New Orleans One hundred years of pestilenceby CHRISTIE MATHERNE HALL A shrine to Father Francis Seelos in St. Mary's Assumption Church and Our Lady of Guadalupe (formerly the Mortu...
The Lost Sights and Sounds of Storyville, New Orleans’s Red Light DistrictStoryville in New Orleans may be the most famous American red light district, but little of it survives. After prostitution in Storyville...
The Civil War Women of New OrleansNew Orleans and its vital port became a major source of armament, supplies, and income to the Confederate Army. Its location near the mou...
The Fall of New OrleansNew Orleans was the jewel of the Confederacy. In addition to being the South’s largest city, it boasted considerable industry that produc...