...Elizabeth Parish Smith This essay examines the experiences of three women—one Creole, one black, one white—in New Orleans’s Reconstruction-era demimonde. Enacted just months after the end of the Civil War and surviving in various forms for fifty-two years, a regulatory system governed the sex trade...

...Julie Koch Copyright © 1930 by Duke University Press 1930 ORIGINS OF NEW ENGLAND PROTESTANTISM IN NEW ORLEANS JULIE KOCH St. Louis, Mo. NO MATTER how overworked and trite an expression it may be to speak of New Orleans as a bit of Europe set in America, it is a phrase one can t refrain from...

...Earl E. Thorpb Black New Orleans, 1860–1880 . By Blassingame John W. . Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1973 . Pp. vii , 301 . $9.95 . Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 138 The South Atlantic Quarterly Nerval s sonnets, and Arnold s two great pastoral...

...William B. Hamilton Impressions Respecting New Orleans: Diary and. Sketches, 1818-1820 . By Latrobe Benjamin Henry Boneval . Edited by Wilson Samuel Jr . New York : Columbia University Press , 1951 . Illustrated. Pp. xxiv , 196 . $8.75 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke...

...Harry M. Campbell William Faulkner: New Orleans Sketches . With an introduction by Collins Carvel . New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press , 1958 . Pp. 223 . $4.50 . Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 518 The South Atlantic Quarterly of reason. His...

... builds on the environmental justice movement and its challenges to mainstream environmental organizations around a civil rights agenda of ecological equity for all. The devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans has played a particularly important role in catalyzing the movement for climate...

...Virginia Gearhart Gray Copyright © 1928 by Duke University Press 1928 ACTIVITIES OF SOUTHERN WOMEN: 1840-1860 VIRGINIA GEARHART GRAY New Orleans O THE MAN of the street in the decades just preceding X the Civil War, woman developed into as perplexing a problem as her daughter of today...

... in 1846 the Washington and New Orleans Telegraph Company. This was the second telegraph company organized in the United States; it was to have a capital of $400,000, and the thrifty Kendall predicted annual net earn­ ings of $450,000. The new enterprise was pushed with great vigor. Virginia led off...

... have been challenged. The idea that the President of the United States would sit in Washington deciding, well, you know, New Orleans is a black city so I don’t think I’ll worry much about how well it does...

... and the esteem of the conquered? Can their accepted leaders be permitted to lead them still ? Can they be prevented from leading ? I. The Union troops entered New Orleans on May 1, 1862, and the martial law of the Federal army was at once proclaimed. Many people had found it expedient to leave, but a large...

... and the esteem of the conquered? Can their accepted leaders be permitted to lead them still ? Can they be prevented from leading ? I. The Union troops entered New Orleans on May 1, 1862, and the martial law of the Federal army was at once proclaimed. Many people had found it expedient to leave, but a large...

.... If the intelligent design doctrine had any merit at all, it was difficult to escape the conclusion that Katrina, which struck on August 29, and the consequent devastation of New Orleans and the north Gulf Coast at the cost of an estimated 1,570 lives must represent some kind of “intelligent meteorology...

... that characterize his figures come from the experiences of his youth. James Richmond Barthe s life began on January 28, 1901, in the town of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, where the customs and cuisine had a Creole flavor, giving summer visitors from New Orleans a sense of community. There were no paved roads...

.... By Thomas Ewing Dabney. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1944. Pp. xii, 552. $4.00. This is a remarkable book, combining as it does a history of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, large fragments of the story of a century of the city of New Orleans, and more than cursory remarks on events...

... of New Orleans. He has pic­ tured the crescent city with a vividness and detail of descrip­ tion which no other American writer perhaps has quite equaled in writing about the characteristic features and in­ habitants of any of our cities. Cable s pen has portrayed the Creole in his palmiest days most...

.... UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FRANK J. WARNKE Black New Orleans, 1860 1880. By John W. Blassingame. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1973. Pp. vii, 301. $9.95. The author of this book originally a doctoral dissertation at Yale University states that he describes and analyzes the economic and social life...

... her voice an eloquent outburst of pity for France. The twentieth-century concepts of woman and saint are very different from those of the Middle Ages or even of the nineteenth century. The fresh impulse given by the World War to the idealization of the Maid of Orleans doubtless had something to do...

... books, all published by 1884 the eight stories collected into Old Creole Days and two novels of New Orleans, The Grandissimes and Dr. Sevier. In explaining the deterioration of his literary art in the fiction he published in the next three decades, historians of American literature are likely to say...

... of the Southern Conference Educational Fund Inc. and ex-New Deal Administrator was exterminating pestiferous big red ants on his Montgomery farm, a United States marshal served him a subpoena. The document summoned him to New Orleans to appear before the Subcommittee on Internal Security, Committee...

... of symphony, song and con­ certo. In Virginia, Williamsburg, Fredericksburg, Alex­ andria, Norfolk and Richmond had music at an early day. 404 The South Atlantic Quarterly To New Orleans, however, belongs the distinction of hav­ ing introduced French opera into America. Late in the cen­ tury a company...