History of Urban and Suburban America (Fall 2008)

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African-Americans Architecture Arts/Leisure Church/Religious-Activity Civil War Crime/Violence Economy Government Health/Death Immigration Labor Union Law Migration/Transportation Native-Americans New Orleans Race Relations Slavery Urban Society Urban-Life/Boosterism Women
American Cities. Historical sources of urban growth and decline; dynamics of natural and built environments; neighborhoods and social space; factors of gender, class, and ethnicity; migration; urban exchange networks, hinterlands and suburbs; historical mechanisms of political power, urban planning; and cultural production. Emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Episodes

  1. Ursuline Nuns Relocate their Convent outside the City of New Orleans
    date March 25, 1823 to September 1, 1824map ORLEANS, Louisianatags Church/Religious-Activity, Women, Migration/Transportation, Urban-Life/Boosterism, African-Americans, Native-Americans

    In 1824, a dispute with the city of New Orleans drove the Ursuline nuns of New Orleans to leave their century old convent in the city for a new location outside the city. A drawing of the "new" convent shows an elaborate building with elements of classical architecture consisting of a three story convent, orphanage and chapel. Designed by architectural firm Gurlie and Guillot, the convent was decorated...

  2. Yellow Fever Responsible for Christian Miltenberger's Success in 19th Century New Orleans
    date 1838map ORLEANS, Louisianatags Health/Death, Migration/Transportation, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    Situated at the intersection of Royal and Dumaine Street in the heart of the New Orleans, the Miltenberger House still stands as a testimony to one immigrant's accumulation of wealth and to medical advancements in the South during the 19th century. Little was known about yellow fever, especially ways to prevent or treat this disease. Almost annually, it seemed, the Gulf Coast and in particular, New...

  3. Women in Post-Civil War New Orleans
    date April, 1862 to 1862map ORLEANS, Louisianatags Women, New Orleans, Civil War

    For one of the first times in American history, the women of New Orleans were taking the protection of their city and its reputation into their own hands. Spitting and yelling at soldiers from the north and refusing to even acknowledge their presence in the streets, even when the soldiers were offering the women assistance. There were many hostile feelings between the north and the south...

  4. The Theatre of Everyday Life
    date January 1, 1848 to January 1, 1850map ORLEANS, Louisianatags Women, Urban Society

    As the daughter of Don Andres Almonaster y Rojas, the Cabildo's original benefactor, the Baroness Pontalba was no stranger to the notion of civic duty expressing itself through architecture. After a tumultuous marriage and divorce to a Parisian nobleman, sensationalized in various newspapers, she returned permanently to her hometown and sought to transplant the culture and sophistication she had grown...

  5. Immigration and Settlement Patterns, New Orleans, 1940
    date 1940map Orleans, Louisianatags Migration/Transportation, Immigration

    Although the second wave of immigration was a trickle by the 1940s, there were more immigrants than ever in New Orleans. The places immigrants settled were dictated by shifting physical and social geographies, conjunctures of the past, and the unique qualities of New Orleans. The distribution of settlers also reflected old settlement patterns as well as transformations the city underwent with growth....

  6. A New Home for Sex in New Orleans
    date July 11, 1892 to December 31, 1897map ORLEANS, Louisianatags African-Americans, Government, Race Relations, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    In 19th century America, many men enjoyed the services of prostitutes but disliked prostitution. This ironic dichotomy was very evident amongst the upper class men of New Orleans, and it heavily influenced the future landscape of the city. With a 'not in my backyard' view of prostitution, the wealthy males of New Orleans, although many were clients of prostitutes, did not want their homes and families...

  7. Race Relations and Labor Unions in Nineteenth Century New Orleans
    date 1883map ORLEANS, Louisianatags Labor Union, Race Relations

    The history of the nineteenth century United States rarely speaks of racial cooperation, however evidence of a few such scenarios are historically documented. The end of slavery in the United States all but destroyed the agrarian economy of the southern states, and even with the constitutional abolition of slavery racial hostility ran high throughout the country. Yet as the country attempted to rebuild...

  8. Legend of the Lafitte Brothers at 941 Bourbon Street
    date 1810 to 1823map ORLEANS, Louisianatags Crime/Violence, Economy, Law, Slavery, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    Once upon a time, two pirate brothers lived in the cottage at 941 Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. Although it may seem outlandish, the strength of this local legend about the Lafitte brothers, Pierre and Jean, persists to this day. The National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings, as well as The National Historic Landmarks Program, describe the structure on Bourbon Street as being built...

  9. The Peak of Excellence
    date 1921map Orleans, Louisianatags Architecture, Economy

    This building serves as a symbol of the innovation that the Cotton Exchange implemented in its field of industry. The exterior of the building appears to be a typical 1921 classically inspired design. The architects, Favrot and Livaudais, who built several of the buildings in the area, designed the eight story steel framed structure. They believed that they created a new style of building because they...

  10. French Opera House Destroyed in Flames
    date December 4, 1919map Orleans, Louisianatags Urban Society, Arts/Leisure

    On December 4, 1919, hundreds of New Orleans's high society watched as their social gathering spot was engulfed in flames. A writer at the time, Andre Lafargue, recounted the deep emotion embedded within the French Opera House, and the mourning that took place upon its historic loss to flames. The French Opera House, located on the corner of Bourbon and Toulouse Streets in the French Quarter, served...

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