LHA Program (2020)

PROGRAM SIXTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE

LOUISIANA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

and the Regional Meeting of Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society

MARCH 19-21, 2020 CROWNE PLAZA

EXECUTIVE CENTER 4728 Constitution Avenue Baton Rouge, La. 70808

LHA Thursday Night Social Thursday, March 19, 6-8 pm

LSU Rural Life Museum

4560 Essen Lane, Baton Rouge, La. 70808 $25 - includes food, drink, and tours of the grounds.

Food and beverages provided by The Rum House.

This event is sponsored in part by the McGinty Trust in honor of LHA President V. Elaine Thompson.

LHA Saturday Afternoon Tour Saturday, March 21, 1:30 pm

Hill Memorial Library

LSU Campus, Baton Rouge, La. 70803 FREE, but registration required.

LOUISIANA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM

Dr. William Robison, Southeastern Louisiana University Program Chair

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THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 2020

Registration Creole Nominations Committee TBA Publications Committee TBA Teaching Committee TBA Board of Directors Mississippi / Delta

Session I-A

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10:00 am – 4:00 pm 10:30–11:00 am 10:30–11:00 am 10:30–11:00 am 11:00 am – 2:00 pm

Samuel Clemens

3:00–4:15 pm

Teaching World War II with Study Abroad Craig Saucier, Southeastern Louisiana University, Chair Paul Wilson, Nicholls State University Mark Bielski, Stephen Ambrose Tours Comment: The Audience

Session I-B

Bayou

3:00–4:15 pm

Impossible Dream?: Advocating for Archives in State and Local Policymaking Faye Phillips, V F Phillips Consulting, Baton Rouge, Chair Mary Linn Wernet, Northwestern State University Laura McLemore, Louisiana State University Shreveport Comment: The Audience LHA THURSDAY NIGHT SOCIAL

6:00–8:00 p.m.

LSU Rural Life Museum (4560 Essen Lane, Baton Rouge, La.) $25, includes food, drinks, tour 3

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Registration

Session II-A

FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 2020

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Mississippi / Delta

8:00 am – 4:00 pm

Samuel Clemens

9:00–10:15 am

Building Free Black Communities in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana Charles Vincent, Southern University, Chair “Side by Side: Free People of Color in Plantation Country, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 1820-1860” Evelyn Wilson, Louisiana State University “Building Freedom under Military Occupation in Civil War Louisiana” J. Matthew Ward, Louisiana State University “The African American Community of ‘New South’ Lake Charles” Jeff Crawford, Louisiana State University Comment: Charles Vincent, Southern University

Session II-B

Bayou

9:00–10:15 am

Marche du Calumet de Paix: The Calumet Ceremony at the Beginning of New Orleans Connie Zeanah Atkinson, University of New Orleans, Chair “En Cadence: New Orleans and Calumet Ceremonies in Colonial Louisiana” Shane T. Lief, Tulane University “Chitimacha Diplomacy and Commerce in Colonial Louisiana” Daniel H. Usner, Vanderbilt University “Listening for the Calumet Ceremony in New Orleans Music History” William D. Buckingham, Independent Scholar Comment: Charles Elliott, Southeastern Louisiana University 4

Session II-C

Natchez

9:00–10:15 am

Sports History Brady Banta, Arkansas State University, Chair “Condition Critical: College Athletics in Louisiana during World War II” Jerry P. Sanson, Louisiana State University of Alexandria “Working, Shooting, Playing, and Kayfabe: The Relationship between Professional Wrestling and ‘Legitimate’ Sports in the Memphis, World Class, and Mid-South Territories” Christopher Stacey, Louisiana State University of Alexandria “‘They Will Use This Against You’: The Context and Legacy of the 2001 France vs. Algeria Protests” Andrew Wegman, Delta State University Comment: Charles Pellegrin, Northwestern State Univ. of La.

Session III-A

Samuel Clemens

10:30–11:45 am

Louisiana, the American Presidency, Congress, and Health Care Peter Petrakis, Southeastern Louisiana University, Chair “Right-Wing Letters to the Shreveport Journal on the Eve of the Presidential Election of 1964” Ralph W. Brown, University of Louisiana at Monroe “Anxiety, Authority, and Acceptance: Louisiana’s Congressional Delegation, 1960-1972” Michael S. Martin, University of Louisiana at Lafayette “Louisiana and the 1965 Medicare Debate: The Rhetoric of Freedom and the Neoliberal Construction of the Modern American Healthcare System” Rex Randall Jones Jr., University of Louisiana at Lafayette Comment: Keith Finley, Southeastern Louisiana University 5

Session III-B

Bayou

10:30–11:45 am

The Many Faces of Race in Louisiana History Shannon Frystak, East Stroudsburg University, Chair “Monsieur Danny and Grand Zombi: African Serpent Spirits in the Mississippi Valley” Jeffrey E. Anderson, University of Louisiana at Monroe “Erasing Blackness, Memorializing Whiteness: Women Reformers, Carceral Girlhoods, and the Visuality of Progressive-Era New Orleans” Jessica R. Calvanico, University of California, Santa Cruz “Black and White Louisianans and Their Texas Connection” Ronald Traylor, Southeastern Louisiana University Comment: Janet Allured, McNeese State University

Session III-C

Natchez

10:30–11:45 am

European History Session: Heresy and Religious Controversy in the High Middle Ages Maribel Dietz, Louisiana State University, Chair “The Origins of Lanquedocian Catharism” Heather Duncan, Southeastern Louisiana University “The Role of Nicholas of Lisieux in the Conflict Between Seculars and Mendicants at the University of Paris” Andrew Traver, Southeastern Louisiana University “Thomas Aquinas and the Condemnation of 1277” Mark D. Gossiaux, Loyola University New Orleans Comment: Sherri Franks Johnson, Louisiana State University 6

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Phi Alpha Theta Luncheon

$20

Cypress II

noon-1:00 pm

“Tragic Voyages: the Brig Uncas and the Nineteenth-Century Slave Trades” Dr. Randy Sparks, Tulane University Session IV-A

Samuel Clemens

1:15–2:30 pm

Cartography and the Struggle for Sovereignty in the Gulf Borderlands, 1783-1821 Gene Smith, Texas Christian University, Chair “Asserting Sovereignty through Chart and Phrase: Andrew Ellicott and the Southern Boundary” Ray Lucas, Texas Christian University. “‘I am going for a few days over the River into Louisiana’: John Sibley and Early Information Gathering in Louisiana, 1803-1807” James MacDonald, Northwestern State University “William Darby’s Map of the State of Louisiana and the Extension of American Sovereignty over the Neutral Ground” Jackson Pearson, Texas Christian University.

Comment: F. Todd Smith, University of North Texas

Session IV-B

Bayou

1:15–2:30 pm

Civil War and Reconstruction in Louisiana Michael Ross, University of Maryland, Chair “Crisis in Command: The Chain of Command and Order of Battle of Confederate Naval Forces at New Orleans” Neil P. Chatelain, Lone Star College-North Harris “An Exception to Every Rule: Industry and Labor at State Penitentiaries in the Civil War Era” Michael Frawley, University of Texas Permian Basin 7

“Fighting Mob Law: Louisiana and the Ushering in of a Violent Reconstruction Era” Kathryn Dungy, Saint Michael’s College Comment: Justin Nystrom, Loyola University New Orleans

Session IV-C

Natchez

1:15–2:30 pm

Women in Louisiana History Samuel C. Hyde, Southeastern Louisiana University, Chair “Sisters on the Frontier: Catholic Women Educators and the Shaping of the Early American Republic in the Gulf Coast Southwest” Petra Monroe Hendry, Louisiana State University “Miss Kate, Joe Ray, and the Mexican Tigress: Race, Violence, and Social Power in Postbellum New Orleans Prostitution” Lindsay A. Silver, Louisiana State University “Who and Where Were the Women: Louisiana Convict Lease, 1868-1901” Marianne Fisher-Giordano, Northwestern State University Comment: Sarah Hyde, River Parishes Community College

Session V-A

Samuel Clemens

2:45–4:00 pm

America, Louisiana, and Japan Charles Shindo, Louisiana State University, Chair “Japan and the New Orleans Cotton Trade: Reorienting a Discussion” Greg Robinson, Université du Québec à Montréal “Bushido Abandoned: Allied Prisoners of War under Japan” Jake Yount, Southeastern Louisiana University Comments: Samantha Perez, Southeastern Louisiana University 8

Session V-B

Bayou

2:45–4:00 pm

New Orleans’s Images: Capturing and Illustrating the Crescent City’s African American History Eva Baham, Dillard University, Chair “Arthur P. Bedou’s Pictorialist Photography and Creole New Orleans in the Early- to Mid-Twentieth Century” Mora Beauchamp-Byrd, Oklahoma State University “Lucille Levy Hutton: Portrait of New Orleans Education in the Festival’s Pageantry of Music, Theatre, Arts, and Dance, 1939-1962” Jana Smith, Dillard University “Preserving the Past: New Orleans Architecture in Family History and Images” Lynette Dolliole Johnson, Louisiana Creole Research Association Comments: Joyce Marie Jackson, Louisiana State University

Session V-C

Natchez

2:45–4:00 pm

Only in Louisiana: The Swamp, the Storm, and the Sunbelt James Rogers, Louisiana State University of Alexandria, Chair “John Lynch: The Father of the Flyway Biologist” Jacob T. Gautreaux, Louisiana State University “Lyndon Johnson and the New Orleans African-American Community Following Hurricane Betsy” Gabriel Séguin, Radio-Canada, Montreal “Why Wasn’t Shreveport Part of the Sunbelt South—or Was It?” David M. Anderson, Louisiana Tech University Comment: Liz Skilton, University of Louisiana at Lafayette 9

Session VI-A

Plenary Session

Samuel Clemens / Natchez

4:15–5:30 pm

“The Black Lives Matter Movement: A Historical Perspective” Michael Wade, Appalachian State University Comment: The Audience

Cash Bar

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Cypress II

6:00–7:00 pm

LHA Annual Banquet

Cypress II

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7:00–9:00 pm

Henry Robertson, Louisiana College, presiding

LHA Presidential Address: “Benevolence, Brotherly Love and Harmony:” Community Building Among German Jewish Merchants in Clinton, Louisiana V. Elaine Thompson, Louisiana Tech University LHA President

Presidential Reception

Cypress II

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9:00–10:00 pm

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SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 2020

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Registration

Mississippi / Delta

8:00–10:30 am

Session VII-A

Samuel Clemens

9:00–10:15 am

France, Spain, Britain, and Louisiana in the Colonial Period and Early Statehood Paul Hoffman, Louisiana State University, Chair “Gérard Pellerin’s Life (1682-1737) and Legacy” Dianne Guenin-Lelle, Albion College Jamie Menutis-Smith, Branded Works “A Watershed Moment: How Jefferson, Wilkinson, and New Orleans Changed the Army” Jarrod L. Weaver, Texas A&M University–Central Texas “West India Slavery, the Royal Navy, and the Troubling Case of Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane, 1807-1823” Samantha Cavell, Southeastern Louisiana University Comment: Robin Hermann, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Session VII-B

Bayou

9:00–10:15 am

History Lost, Preserved, and Relocated Benjamin Price, Southeastern Louisiana University, Chair “‘Bring Forth the Fiery, Untamed Steeds’: Lost Horse and Mule Market Districts of New Orleans” Charlotte Jones, Tulane University “‘Lift up your hands with me and rejoice, that Bienville is really done’: Grace King’s Letters about Her Early Work as Louisiana Historian” Miki Pfeffer, Nicholls State University “Vindicating the Lost Cause: New Orleans Women and Confederate Monuments” Howard Hunter, Metairie Park Country Day School Comment: Mark Fernandez, Loyola University New Orleans 11

Session VII-C

Natchez

9:00–10:15 am

Native Americans and Louisiana Mary Price, Independent Scholar, Chair “Indian Men and French ‘Women’: Conflicting Masculinities in Eighteenth-Century Louisiana” Eric J. Toups, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Choctaw Migrations to Northwestern Louisiana” Robert B. Caldwell Jr., SOWELA Technical & Community College “The Red River Medicine Stone: How it Got to the Peabody Museum and Its Conflicting Interpretation” Robin Cole-Jett, Independent Scholar Comment: Zachary Isenhower, Southeastern Louisiana University

Session VIII-A

Samuel Clemens

10:30–11:45 am

Race, Slavery, and Freedom in Louisiana Emily Clark, Tulane University, Chair “The Natchez Rebellion, African and Native Women, and the Long Middle Passage to Louisiana” Jessica Johnson, Johns Hopkins University “Claiming Indigenous Ancestry to Establish Whiteness in Jim Crow New Orleans” Carolyn Morrow Long, Independent Scholar Comment: Emily Clark, Tulane University Comment: Sharony Green, University of Alabama

Session VIII-B

Bayou

10:30–11:45 am

Aspects of Acadiana Stephen Michot, Nicholls State University (retired), Chair “Contextualizing the Conjugations: The Inclusion and Presentation of Louisiana Historical Content in Introductory French and Spanish Textbooks” Jerry Parker, Southeastern Louisiana University 12

“Bouki et Lapin Ont Ouvert l’Ouest” Abigail Scott, University of Louisiana at Lafayette “Jewish Acadians: Archiving the History of the Jews of Southwest Louisiana” Zack Stein, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Comments: Monica Wright, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Session VIII-C

Natchez

10:30–11:45 am

Race, Business, and Industry in Louisiana Edith Ambrose, Southeastern Louisiana University, Chair “Victory after the Empire Falls: Black Aluminum Workers and Two Decades of Struggle for Promotion” D. Caleb Smith, Tulane University “Dirty Rice: Stories of Louisiana’s African American Grain Elevator Workers” Chandler Taylor, East Baton Rouge Parish Library “‘Doin’ What She Had to Do’: Leah Chase, Dorothy Mae Taylor, Sybil Haydel Morial and New Orleans Life after the Civil Rights Movement” Lynn A. Cowles, Nicholls State University Comments: Alecia Long, Louisiana State University

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General Membership Meeting Samuel Clemens / Natchez

LHA SATURDAY AFTERNOON TOUR

12:00 pm

1:30 p.m.

HILL MEMORIAL LIBRARY LSU Campus, Baton Rouge, La. 70803 FREE, but pre-registration required 13

FELLOWS OF THE LOUISIANA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Posthumous Fellows: Powell Casey; William Ivy Hair; Kimberly S. Hanger; Otis Hebert; Walter Lowery; Garnie McGinty; Henry F. Morris; Hugh Rankin; Joe Gray Taylor; Samuel Wilson, Jr. 1993 Joy J. Jackson Joseph G. Tregle Philip Uzee Bennett H. Wall John D. Winters 1994 Thomas A. Becnel Mark T. Carleton Hubert Humphreys Morgan Peoples 1995 John Duffy Ernest J. Gaines Judith F. Gentry Amos E. Simpson 1997 Mathé Allain Gilbert C. Din Edward F. Haas Michael L. Kurtz 1998 Arthur Bergeron, Jr. Billy H. Gilley Judith K. Schafer Matthew J. Schott

1999 Carl A. Brasseaux Glenn R. Conrad

2010 Samuel Shepherd Janet Allured

2000 Warren M. Billings Patricia Brady Stephen Webre

2011 Paul Hoffman Mark Fernandez

2001 Philip C. Cook Glen Jeansonne 2002 Carolyn E. De Latte Roman Heleniak Thomas D. Watson 2004 Vaughan Baker M. Scott Legan Charles Vincent 2005 Virginia Gould Michael G. Wade 2008 Jerry Sanson Light T. Cummins

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2013 Lawrence Powell 2018 Alecia Long 2019 Michael S. Martin John Rodrigue

GARNIE W. McGINTY MERITORIOUS AWARD

FOR SERVICE TO THE LOUISIANA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

1991 Bennett H. Wall

2000 Michael L. Kurtz

2012 Patricia Brady

1992 Joseph G. Tregle, Jr.

2001 Carl A. Brasseaux

2013 Thomas Watson

1993 Morgan Peoples

2002 Thomas A. Becnel

2014 Vaughan Baker

1994 Gilbert C. Din

2003 Warren M. Billings

2015 Lawrence Powell

1995 Glenn R. Conrad

2004 Judith K. Schafer

2016 Michael Wade

1996 Amos E. Simpson

2005 Roman Heleniak

2017 Stephen Webre

1997 Mathé Allain

2007 Philip Cook

2018 Virginia Gould

1998 John D. Winters

2008 Judith F. Gentry

2018 Samuel Shepherd

1999 Edward F. Haas

2011 Paul Hoffman

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KEMPER WILLIAMS PRIZE

FOR BEST BOOK ON LOUISIANA HISTORY

1974 Roger Fischer

1987 Terry Jones

1998 Carl Ekberg

2009 Jennifer Spears

1975 Joe Gray Taylor

1988 Gilbert Din

1999 Gilbert Din

2010 Richard Campanella

1976 John Preston Moore

1989 Lawrence Estaville, Jr.

2000 Lawrence Powell

2011 Lake Douglas

1977 Jay Higginbotham

1990 Michael Kurtz and Morgan Peoples

2001 John Rodrigue

2012 Lawrence Powell

2002 Carl Ekberg

2013 Scott Marler

2003 John Sacher

2014 Michael Ross

2004 Peter Kastor

2015 Eberhard L. Faber

2005 Rebecca Scott

2016 Rashauna Johnson

2006 Mark Souther

2017 Urmi Willoughby

2007 Emily Clark

2018 Walter C. Stern

1978 Peyton McCrary 1980 Thomas Becnel 1981 Edward Haas 1982 Joseph Dawson 1983 Robert Bush 1984 Thomas Cutrer 1986 Annabelle Melville

1991 William Ivy Hair 1992 Ann Patton Malone 1993 Kim Lacy Rogers 1994 Judith Kelleher Schafer 1995 Adam Fairclough 1996 Pamela Tyler

2008 Sophie Burton & F. Todd Smith

1997 Kimberly Hanger

KEMPER WILLIAMS PRIZE (discontinued)

FOR BEST UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT ON LOUISIANA HISTORY

1974 Robert Snyder

1981 Brady Banta

1985 Edward Haas

1989 Kimberly Hanger

1976 Stephen Zink

1982 Michael Kurtz

1986 Eric Arnesen

1990 Donald Frazier

1977 Reinhart Kondert

1983 Terry Jones

1987 John Heitmann

1991 Daniel Usner, Jr.

1978 Carl Brasseaux

1984 Raimund Berchtold

1988 Vaughan Baker

1992 Glenn Conrad

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PRESIDENTS’ MEMORIAL AWARD

FOR BEST ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN LOUISIANA HISTORY

1966 Thomas A. Harwood

1980 Carl A. Brasseaux

1994 R. Randall Couch

2008 Justin Nystrom

1967 Frank M. Lovrich

1981 Alan Brinkley

1995 Arthé Anthony

2009 Lesley-Anne Reed

1968 Jerry A. Micelli

1982 George Rable

1996 Gilbert C. Din

2010 Kimberly Krupa

1969 Charles B. Dew

1983 Matthew J. Schott

1997 James D. Wilson, Jr.

2011 Robert Gudmestad

1970 Jack D. L. Holmes

1984 Stephen Webre

1998 Michael G. Wade

2012 Elizabeth Shown Mills

1971 Raleigh A. Suarez

1985 Chris Nordmann

1999 James E. Fickle

2013 Michelle Grigsby Coffey

1972 Edward F. Haas

1986 Carl A. Brasseaux

2000 Solomon K. Smith

2014 Lou Falkner Williams

1973 L. E. Estaville, Jr.

1987 Ann Patton Malone

2001 John M. Sacher

Jeroen Dewulf

1974 Gary B. Mills

1988 Paul Lachance

2002 Arthé Anthony

2016 James E. Wainwright

1975 Robert E. Snyder

1989 Loren Schweninger

2003 John W. Scott

Elizabeth Ellis

1976 Joseph G. Tregle, Jr.

1990 Joseph G. Tregle Jr.

2004 Simon Wendt

1977 James H. Dormon

1991 Jerah Johnson

2005 Sarah Russell

1978 Gilbert C. Din

1992 Sheridan E. Young

2006 Rocky Sexton

1979 Loren Schweninger

1993 Kimberly Hanger

2007 Philippe Girard

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2015

2017

2018

Virginia Gould

HUGH F. RANKIN PRIZE

FOR BEST GRADUATE-LEVEL PAPER

1991 1998 Henry O. Robertson, Jr. James D. Wilson, Jr. Louisiana State Univ. Cornell University

2005 Yvonne Brown UL Lafayette

2012 Michael Smith UL Lafayette

2006 James Savage UL Lafayette

2013 David Bennett Michigan St. Univ.

1992 Paul Quin Louisiana State Univ.

1999 Sarah Russell Univ. of Maryland

1993 Theresa Golden Appalachian St. Univ.

2000 2007 Sophie White Michele Grigsby Coffey University of Derby Univ. of South Carolina

2014 Emily Owens Harvard Univ.

1994 2001 2008 2015 Christopher Strain Julia Huston Nguyen Joseph Stoltz Caroline Hymel University of Georgia Louisiana State Univ. Univ. of New Orleans La. Tech Univ.

1995 2002 2016 2009 V. Elaine Thompson J. Mark Souther Henry Wiencek Walter C. Stern Rice University Tulane University Tulane University Univ. Texas at Austin 1996 2003 2017 2010 James D. Wilson, Jr. J. P. Le Glaunec Karen McKinney Beth Kressel USL Univ. de Paris UL Lafayette Univ. of Michigan Law School 1997 2004 2018 Megan Dee Michael Pasquier John Bardes 2011 Southeastern La. Univ. Florida State Univ. Owen James Hyman Tulane Univ.

Southeastern La. Univ.

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GLENN R. CONRAD PRIZE

FOR BEST PUBLISHED ARTICLE ON LOUISIANA HISTORY

2008-09 Scott Marler

2012-13 Dan Usner

2016-17 Jeffery Adler

2010-11 Shannon Frystak

2014-15 Samuel Biagetti

2018 Whitney Nell Stewart

KIMBERLY S. HANGER AWARD

FOR BEST UNDERGRADUATE-LEVEL PAPER

2000 Katherine Slaikeu

2005 Angelique Hurling

2010 Meghann Landry

2014 Molly Conway

2001 Chris Brown

2006 Lesley-Anne Reed

2011 Linda Bird

2015 Jamie Wright

2002 Keith Manuel

2007 Kathryn Fernandez

2016 Donovan Stone

2003 Katie Clark

2008 Mary Wubbena

2012 Daniel Manuel & Alexandria Seltenrich

2004 Victoria Black & Yvonne Brown

2009 Jason Straight

2013 Chad Landrum & Brenton Gryder

2017 Matthew Flanders 2018 Bailey Stark

AMOS E. SIMPSON TRAVEL GRANT AWARD FOR RESEARCH ON LOUISIANA HISTORY

2015 Evan Rothera Henry Wiencek

2017 Clayton Butler William Jones

2016 Yvonne Brown Paul Warden

2018 Elyse D. Gerstenecke Julia Lewandoski

2019 Eric Becerra

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