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  1. The Lower Garden District of New Orleans
    date 1836 to 1852map ORLEANS, Louisianatags New Orleans, Garden District

    In the years following the Louisiana Purchase divisions arose within the city of New Orleans between the newly arriving Americans from the Eastern States and the pre-existing Creole faction of the city. The Creoles, a broad name referring to a group with a racial mix of French, African American, and Native American ancestry who were living in New Orleans following the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, did...

  2. Cuisine of New Orleans
    date January 1, 1970 to December 31, 1995map Orleans, Louisianatags Mardi gras, New Orleans, cuisine

    New Orleans is a city rich with cultural identity fused into the roots of its people. Most evidently, the cuisine has blossomed from the history of New Orleans, and as my primary source shows it is also the most celebrated and shared cuisine our country has to offer. The most famous part of New Orleans, the "French Quarter", is home to most all the cultural traditions New Orleans have...

  3. Governor Claiborne Remembered 23 Years After Death...
    date January 20, 1840 to August, 1840map ORLEANS, Louisianatags New Orleans, Government, Politics, Urban Society, Governor Claiborne, Law, Urban-Life/Boosterism, War, Battle of New Orleans

    All the earth stood silent on December 20, 1803, as the Mississippi territorial governor rode in on the streets of New Orleans. Beautiful women adorned the balconies that hung over the Place d' Armes. Each country, represented by its own amount of officials and military, watched as the France flag descended and the American flag ascended succinctly down the pole, meeting halfway to acknowledge...

  4. Local Chinese React to Imperial Decree
    date 1910 to 1911map Orleans, Louisianatags Migration/Transportation, Immigration, Urban-Life/Boosterism, Race Relations, New Orleans, China

    When Americans think of Chinatown, they rarely associate it with New Orleans, but at the turn of the twentieth century, New Orleans was the only southern city with a population of Chinese immigrants significant enough to constitute a Chinatown. Like other immigrants in America, the Chinese in New Orleans had to balance the ongoing connections and relationships back home with the opportunities presented...

  5. 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...