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WEBSITES

Louisiana State Museum
http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/index.htm
Learn more about topics in Louisiana history on the Web site of the Louisiana State Museum in New Orleans. The site features online exhibits and a large collection of audio, video and photographic artifacts.

Satchmo.net
http://www.satchmo.net/
The official site of the Louis Armstrong House & Archives has biographical information and streaming personal recordings made by the jazz legend.

Jazz
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/
Explore the history of jazz. Hear great moments in jazz recordings, read biographies of jazz greats, a timeline and much more on this companion Web site to the PBS series.

Kate Chopin: A Re-awakening
http://www.pbs.org/katechopin/
Find a chronology of New Orleans writer Kate Chopin and e-texts of her novel The Awakening and short stories.

New Orleans Times-Picayune -- Archive of Katrina Coverage
http://www.nola.com/katrina/
Archives of Hurricane Katrina coverage from the local newspaper that won the 2006 Pulitzer Awards for Public Service and Breaking News for its reporting on the disaster.

New Orleans Times-Picayune -- Special Report
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/?/washingaway/
A special five-part report, published in 2002, on the vulnerability of New Orleans to hurricane damage

BOOKS

Barry, John M. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Blassingame, John. Black New Orleans 1860-1880. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973.

Codrescu, Andrei. New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writing from the City. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books, 2006.

Codrescu, Andrei. The Muse is Always Half-Dressed in New Orleans. New York: Picador USA, 1995.

Collins, Carvel, editor. William Faulkner: New Orleans Sketches. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2002.

Colton, Craig E. An Unnatural Metropolis. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005.

Desdunes, Rodolphe Lucien. Our People and Our History: Fifty Creole Portraits. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.

Flake, Carol. New Orleans: Behind the Masks of America's Most Exotic City. New York: Grove Press, 1994.

Florida, Richard The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life, 2003

Garvey, Joan B. and Mary Lou Widmer. Beautiful Crescent: A History of New Orleans. New Orleans: Garmer Press, 1983.

Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books, 1973.

Holditch, Kenneth and Richard Freeman Leavitt. Tennessee Williams and the South. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2002.

Kelman, Ari. A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans. Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 2003.

Kmen, Henry A. Music in New Orleans: The Formative Years, 1791-1841. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1966.

Larson, Susan. The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999.

Leverich, Lyle. Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams. New York: Crown Publishers, 1995.

Lewis, Peirce. New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape. Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 2003.

Lomax, Alan. Mister Jelly Roll. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1950 and 2001.

McKinney, Louise. New Orleans: A Cultural and Literary History. New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 2006.

Sinclair, Harold. The Port of New Orleans. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1942.

Toole, John Kennedy. A Confederacy of Dunces. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1980.

Ward, Geoffrey C. and Ken Burns. Jazz: A History of America's Music. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.

Williams, Tennessee. Vieux Carré with introduction by Robert Bray. New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2000.

Laborde, Peggy Scott & Magil, John Canal Street: New Orleans' Great Wide Way Pelican Publishing Company, 2006