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Louisiana Anthology Podcast

The Louisiana Anthology Podcast is an part of the larger project of the Louisiana Anthology. We release new episodes every Saturday, and the podcasts last for around an hour. The purpose of the Louisiana Anthology Podcast is to discuss the literature and culture of Louisiana. We broadcast interviews with various authors, artists, and scholars about their contributions to Louisiana.

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612. Carlis Wright Robinson, Part 2

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2025/02/08

612. Part 2 of our conversation with Carlis Wright Robinson. Inresponse to racial segregation in Major League Baseball, African American players and officials formed their own league, titled, The Negro Leagues. Despite not playing in Major League Baseball, Wright, like countless other African Americans in baseball at that time, by their mere presence and participation in baseball at that time in America, rejected racism and served as pioneers

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611. Carlis Wright Robinson, part 1

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2025/02/01

611. Part 1 of our conversation with Carlis Wright Robinson about her father's, Johnny Wright's, baseball career. Inresponse to racial segregation in Major League Baseball, African American players and officials formed their own league, called The Negro League. Despite not playing in Major League Baseball, Wright, like countless other African Americans in baseball at that time, by their mere presence and participation in baseball at that time in America,

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610. Dean Snow on David Ingram

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2025/01/25

610. Join us this week as David Snow tells us about English traveler DavidIngram. "In The Extraordinary Journey of David Ingram, author Dean Snow rights the record on a shipwrecked sailor who traversed the length of the North American continent only to be maligned as deceitful storyteller. In the autumn of 1569, a French ship rescued David Ingram and two other English sailors from the shore of the Gulf of Maine. The men had walked over 3000

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609. David Armand, Part 2

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2025/01/17

609. Part 2 of our visit with author David Armond. Armand is the 2022 recipient of the Louisiana Writer Award, presented annually by the Louisiana Center for the Book in the State Library of Louisiana. He is the twenty-third recipient of the prestigious award presented to recognize outstanding contributions to Louisiana’s literary and intellectual life exemplified by a contemporary Louisiana writer’s body of work. He is a prolific writer in several genres: memoir, novels, and poetry. His memoirs are

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608. David Armand, Part 1

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2025/01/10

608. Part 1 of our 2nd interview with David Armond, winner of the 2022 Louisiana Writer Award. He has written the memoir titles: My Mother’s House & Mirrors. He has published four novels, The Pugilist's Wife, Harlow, The Gorge, and The Lord's Acre. He has also published three collections of poems, The Deep Woods, Debt, and The Evangelist. From 2017-2019, he served as Writer-in-Residence at Southeastern Louisiana University, where he is currently assistant professor of creative writing. His

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607. Rain Gomez, D. G. Barthe, & Andrew Jolivette,...

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2025/01/04

607. Part 2 of our conversation with RainPrud'homme-Cranford (Rain C. Goméz) & her friends D. G. Barthe and Andrew Jolivette visit this week. Louisiana Creole Peoplehood is the book they collaborated on. “Over the course of more than three centuries, the diverse communities of Louisiana have engaged in creative living practices to forge a vibrant, multifaceted, and fully developed Creole culture. Against the backdrop of ongoing

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606. Rain Prud'homme-Cranford, part 1

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2024/12/28

606. Part 1 of Rain Prud’homme-Cranford (Rain C. Goméz) & her friends D. G. Barthe and Andrew Jolivette's visit to our porch this week. Louisiana Creole Peoplehoodis the book they collaborated on. “Over the course of more than three centuries, the diverse communities of Louisiana have engaged in creative living practices to forge a vibrant, multifaceted, and fully developed Creole culture. Against the backdrop of ongoing anti-Blackness and Indigenous erasure that has sought to undermine

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605. Derby Gisclair, part 2. Baseball.

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2024/12/21

605. Part 2. Derby Gisclair returns to discuss the history of baseball in New Orleans. Derby is an expert on the topic, having written the following books:Early Baseball in New Orleans: A History of 19th Century Play. The 1910 New Orleans Pelicans: A Moment in Minor League History: Shoeless Joe Jackson and the New Orleans Pelicans Championship. The Dixie Series: 1920 - 1958. In July of 1859, seventy-five young New Orleanians came together to form the seven teams that

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604. Derby Gisclair

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2024/12/14

604. Part 1. Derby Gisclair returns to discuss the history of baseball in New Orleans. Derby is an expert on the topic, having written the following books:Early Baseball in New Orleans: A History of 19th Century Play. The 1910 New Orleans Pelicans: A Moment in Minor League History: Shoeless Joe Jackson and the New Orleans Pelicans Championship. The Dixie Series: 1920 - 1958. In July of 1859, seventy-five young New Orleanians came together to

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603. Lenore Weiss.

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2024/12/07

603. We chat with Lenore Weiss about her novel,Pulp into Paper, which“is about the struggle of Arkansas and Louisiana mill workers to tell the truth about what is happening in their work and personal lives. The book mirrors the choices we make between earning a living and our ethical values, but is sympathetic to all characters on either side of the environmental divide.” Pulp into Paper is an engaging, disturbing and sometimes humorous novel exposing a calcified network of corruption between

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602. Cherry Levin, Part 2.

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2024/11/30

602. We conclude our conversation with Cherry Levin about plantation weddingceremonies in Louisiana. She wrote Wedding belles and enslaved brides: Louisiana plantation weddings in fact, fiction and folkloreas her LSU dissertation. “A distinguished graduate of the Association of Bridal Consultants’ Professional Development Program, Cherry has planned and coordinated over two hundred weddings throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, the Wine Country and Lake

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601. Cherry Levin, Part 1

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2024/11/22

601. Part 1 of our conversation with Cherry Levin about her research into Antebellum weddings in Louisiana Creole plantations. She wrote a dissertation at LSU entitled, “Wedding Belles and Enslaved Brides: Louisiana Plantation Weddings in Fact, Fiction and Folklore.” “Along with rites of passage marking birth and death, wedding rituals played an important role in ordering social life on antebellum Louisiana plantations, not only for elite white families but also for the enslaved. Autobiographical

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600. Adam Fairclough, Part 2

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2024/11/16

Part 2 of Adam Fairclough's visit to the Louisiana Anthology Podcast to discuss his research on race relations in Louisiana. His book,Bulldozed and Betrayed: Louisiana and the Stolen Elections of 1876,discusses the end of Reconstruction and the beginning of Jim Crow. Prior to the 2020 presidential election, historians considered the disputed 1876 contest — which pitted Republican Rutherford B. Hayes against Democrat Samuel J. Tilden — the most controversial in American history. Examining the

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599. Adam Fairclough, part 1

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2024/11/09

599. Part 1 of Adam Fairclough's visit to the Louisiana Anthology Podcast to discuss his research on race relations in Louisiana. His book,Bulldozed and Betrayed: Louisiana and the Stolen Elections of 1876, discusses the end of Reconstruction and the beginning of Jim Crow. Prior to the 2020 presidential election, historians considered the disputed 1876 contest -- which pitted Republican Rutherford B. Hayes against Democrat Samuel J. Tilden -- the most controversial in American history. Examining the

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598. Liz Ellis, Part 2.

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2024/11/03

598. Part 2 of our conversation with Liz Ellis aboutTheGreat Power of Small Nations. Ellis (Peoria) tells the stories of the many smaller Native American nations that shaped the development of the Gulf South. Based on extensive archival research and oral histories, Ellis’s narrative chronicles how diverse Indigenous peoples—including Biloxis, Choctaws, Chitimachas, Chickasaws, Houmas, Mobilians, and Tunicas—influenced and often challenged

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597. Liz Ellis, part 1.

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2024/10/26

597. Part 1 of Liz Ellis joining us to discuss her excellent book,The Great Power of SmallNations. Part 1.Large Power of Small Nations. Part 1. In The Great Power of Small Nations, Elizabeth N. Ellis (Peoria) tells the stories of the many smaller Native American nations that shaped the development of the Gulf South. Based on extensive archival research and oral histories, Ellis’s narrative chronicles how diverse Indigenous peoples—including Biloxis, Choctaws, Chitimachas, Chickasaws,

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596. Myra Lavigne. Rise St. James

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2024/10/20

596. Today we talk to Myra Lavigne, a volunteer with Rise St. James. Rise St. James is a faith-based grassroots organization that is fighting for environmental justice as it works to defeat the proliferation of petrochemical industries in St. James Parish, Louisiana. Nicknamed “Cancer Alley” for the above-average rates of cancer there, the area is home to a high concentration of polluting industries. Despite this, the state has plans to expand

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595. Derby Gisclair on Hadacol

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2024/10/13

595. Our old friend Derby Gisclair returns to talk about his research into Louisiana politician and snake oil salesman (to the degree they're different!) Dudley J. LeBlanc. "Coozan Dud" was a moderately successful Louisiana politician and a wildly successful salesman of Hadacol, the patent medicine. He hosted a traveling variety show to sell the elixir he created in his bathtub with vitamins, other ingredients, hydrochloric acid, and 12% alcohol. Join us to learn more about this drink that's

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594. Nick Douglas. Jazz, Part 2.

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2024/10/05

594. Part 2 of our interview with Nick Douglas about New Orleans jazz and civilrights. “I am working with my filmmaking partner Doug Harris on a documentary called the Reconnect: The Untold History of Jazz. It is a true story about the actual formation of jazz in the only place it could have formed: New Orleans. But it is more it identifies for the first time New Orleans as the cradle of the Civil Rights Movement. It shows how jazz and jazz

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593. Nick Douglas, Part 1.

Louisiana Anthology Podcast ·

2024/09/28

593. Part 1 of our conversation with Nick Douglas about the documentary he is working on about the relationship between jazz and civil rights, “I am working with my filmmaking partner Doug Harris on a documentary called The Reconnect: The Untold History of Jazz. It is a true story about the actual formation of jazz in the only place it could have formed: New Orleans. But it is more it identifies for the first time New Orleans as the cradle of the Civil Rights Movement. It shows how jazz and

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