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    Marie Laveau: Voodoo Priestess

    Marie Laveau: Voodoo Priestess

    By Carolyn Morrow Long A free woman of color descended from enslaved Africans and French colonists, Marie Laveau is known as the Voudou...
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    THE AXEMAN OF NEW ORLEANS: A JAZZ-LOVING JACK THE RIPPER

    THE AXEMAN OF NEW ORLEANS: A JAZZ-LOVING JACK THE RIPPER

    THE 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...
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    The Saffron Scourge in New Orleans
One hundred years of pestilence

    The Saffron Scourge in New Orleans One hundred years of pestilence

    by CHRISTIE MATHERNE HALL A shrine to Father Francis Seelos in St. Mary's Assumption Church and Our Lady of Guadalupe (formerly the...
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    The Lost Sights and Sounds of Storyville, New Orleans’s Red Light District

    The Lost Sights and Sounds of Storyville, New Orleans’s Red Light District

    Storyville in New Orleans may be the most famous American red light district, but little of it survives. After prostitution in Storyville...
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    The Civil War Women of New Orleans

    The Civil War Women of New Orleans

    New Orleans and its vital port became a major source of armament, supplies, and income to the Confederate Army. Its location near the...
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    The Fall of New Orleans

    The Fall of New Orleans

    New Orleans was the jewel of the Confederacy. In addition to being the South’s largest city, it boasted considerable industry that...
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