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City History: New Orleans

By: Steve Keller
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  • A podcast exploring the history of cities from their founding to today—or their destruction. This season: New Orleans. We'll cover the city's founding, its evolution through French, Spanish and American rule, the battle that saved it in 1815, its dramatic capture and occupation during the Civil War, its unique legacy of race and slavery, how it survived Prohibition, the Depression and hurricanes, Mardi Gras, jazz and the future New Orleans may (or may not) have.
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  • 1.12: Three French Weeks

    1.12: Three French Weeks
    Jul 23 2024

    The French tricolor rises over New Orleans. Three weeks later, the American flag takes its place. The last French governor has a weird, impactful year in New Orleans. READ MORE:

    "The Passion of the Prefect: Pierre Clément De Laussat, 1803 New Orleans, and the Bonapartist Louisiana That Never Was" by Eberhard L. Faber

    A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America by Jon Kukla

    The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N. Powell

    The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette


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    French Quarter Bourbon walk.wav by volivieri -- https://freesound.org/s/110012/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
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    22 mins
  • 1.11: Louisiana Purchase

    1.11: Louisiana Purchase
    Jul 11 2024

    France secretly reacquires Louisiana, but only for a couple years. After military catastrophe in Haiti, Napoleon sells Louisiana to the United States. New Orleans's fate is changed forever.


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    A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America by Jon Kukla

    The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N. Powell

    The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette


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    French Quarter Bourbon walk.wav by volivieri -- https://freesound.org/s/110012/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
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    30 mins
  • 1.10: The Americans Are Coming

    1.10: The Americans Are Coming
    Jul 2 2024

    American settlers demand access to the Mississippi and New Orleans. Pinckney's Treaty chips away at Spanish control. "Kaintucks" and other Americans float downriver to New Orleans.


    READ MORE:

    A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America by Jon Kukla

    The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N. Powell

    The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette

    https://64parishes.org/entry/spanish-colonial-louisiana

    https://64parishes.org/entry/anglo-americans


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    French Quarter Bourbon walk.wav by volivieri -- https://freesound.org/s/110012/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
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    24 mins
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Informative and engaging

content and voice clarity were on point. I appreciate the podcaster providing historical facts with dates and names involved.

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