Louisiana H istori C a L a sso C iation
66th ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM
Program Chair:
Elizabeth C. Neidenbach, The Historic New Orleans Collection
Local Arrangements Chair: Erin Greenwald, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
9 THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2024 9
ONLINE Session ZOOM ID: 8473070446 6:00–7:15 pm
Filipino and Chinese Fishermen of Coastal Louisiana
Winston Ho, The Historic New Orleans Collection, Chair
“Reimagining Filipino American History at St. Malo, Louisiana”
Michael Salgarolo, New York University
“Manila Village, Bayou Defond, and the Asian Coast of Barataria Bay”
Winston Ho, The Historic New Orleans Collection
“Memory, Community, and Climate Change: Reception of the St. Malo and Manila Village Historical Markers”
Randy Gonzales, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Comment: Rhonda Richoux, Independent Scholar
9 THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2024 9
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Registration Foyer 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Nominations Committee TBA 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Publications Committee TBA 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Teaching Committee TBA 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Board of Directors Fulton 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Session 1-A
Bienville 3:00–4:45 pm
Music in the Classroom
Howard Hunter, Metairie Park Country Day, Moderator
Christopher Stacey, Louisiana State University of Alexandria
Mark F. Fernandez, Loyola University New Orleans
Stuart Tully, Nicholls State University
Comment: Audience
Session 1-B Cotton Mill 3:00–4:45 pm
History in the Streets: A New Orleans Tour Guide Roundtable
Collin Makamson, The Historic New Orleans Collection, Moderator
Karen Armagost, National Park Service
Robert Florence, New Orleans Historic Tours
Frank Perez, LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana
Kendric J. Perkins, University of New Orleans
Comment: Audience
LHA THURSDAY NIGHT SOCIAL 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience
818 Howard Avenue, New Orleans, La. 70113
Sponsored by Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities ($30, tickets must be purchased in advance)
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Session 2-A Bienville 9:00–10:15 am
Camp Livingston and Guantánamo Bay: The Language of Extrajudicial Wartime Detention
Chris Dier, Benjamin Franklin High School, Chair
“Beneath Heavy Pines in World War II Louisiana: The Japanese American Internment Experience at Camp Livingston”
Hayley Johnson, Louisiana State University
Sarah Simms, Louisiana State University
“Tweeting from Beyond Guantánamo: Carceral Counternarratives and the Privatization of Public Memory”
Muira McCammon, Tulane University
Comment: Chris Dier, Benjamin Franklin High School
Session 2-B Cotton Mill 9:00–10:15 am
General James Longstreet and the Limits and Possibilities of Reconstruction in New Orleans
Mary Niall Mitchell, University of New Orleans, Chair
“The Confederate on the School Board: General James Longstreet and the Integration of the New Orleans Public Schools During Reconstruction”
Michael Ross, University of Maryland, College Park
“James Longstreet’s Surprising Alliance with Black Politicians in New Orleans”
Elizabeth Varon, University of Virginia
Comment: Lesley Jill Gordon, University of Alabama
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9 FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2024
Session 2-C
Dauphine I 9:00–10:15 am
Podcasting New Orleans Roundtable
Mark F. Fernandez, Loyola University New Orleans, Moderator
René Coman, Independent Scholar
Justin A. Nystrom, Loyola University New Orleans
Patricia Boyett, Loyola University New Orleans
Comment: Audience
SESSION BREAK Foyer 10:15–10:30 am
Sponsor: University of New Orleans History Department
Session 3-A Bienville 10:30–11:45 am
Women in Gilded Age New Orleans
Janet Allured, University of Arkansas, Chair
“A Society of Mutual Aid and Benevolence: The History of Adelaide Baptiste and the Ladies Apostolical of New Orleans, 1863-1872”
Janet Morrison, University of East Anglia
“Dora Richards Miller: A Southern Voice, Covert then Emboldened”
Elly Meeks, Independent Scholar
“Defeating the Louisiana Lottery, 1891: A Backstory from the Grace King Papers”
Miki Pfeffer, Independent Scholar
Comment: Janet Allured, University of Arkansas
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Session 3-B
Cotton Mill
10:30–11:45 am
Louisiana Wartime Experiences Across Eras
Brian M. McGowan, University of Arkansas, Chair
“Private Perceptions of Plaquemine”
Robyn Jordan, University of Louisiana Monroe
“Central Louisiana’s Dedication to the American War Effort in World War II: Camp Claiborne, 1940-1946”
Christian Singletary, University of Southern Mississippi
Comment: Scott Marler, University of Memphis
Session 3-C
Dauphine I 10:30–11:45 am
Rebels and Rebellions in Gulf South Louisiana
Gene A. Smith, Texas Christian University, Chair
“‘Distance does not Change a Frenchman’s Heart:’ The 1768 French Creole Revolt in Spanish Louisiana and Redefining the Age of Revolutions”
Charles L. Cox Jr., Texas Christian University
“Visibilizing Sarah: A Black Woman from Louisiana at the Center of a Mexican Investigation”
María Esther Hammack, The Ohio State University
“The Kempers’ Role in 1804 West Florida”
Jane Plummer, Texas Christian University
Comment: Samuel Hyde, Southeastern Louisiana University
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9 PHI ALPHA THETA LUNCHEON
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Riverside Ballroom III noon-1:00 p.m.
“Exploring the Built Environment: Louisiana Neighborhoods as History”
Henry O. Robertson
Professor of History, Louisiana Christian University
($30, tickets must be purchased in advance)
Session 4-A Bienville 1:15–2:30 pm
Fact or Fiction: Women’s Criminality in Louisiana, 1866-1923
Natalie J. Ring, University of Texas at Dallas, Chair
“The Power of the Press: Race and Women’s Criminality in Postbellum New Orleans”
Lindsay A. Silver, Northeastern State University
“‘And She Left, Never to be Heard or Seen Again’: Women Attempted and Successfully Escaped Louisiana’s Prison System, 1866-1900”
Marianne Fisher-Giorlando, Grambling State University
“The Axwoman as Average: Clementine Barnabet’s Incarceration at Angola, 1912-1923”
Lauren N. Henley, University of Richmond
Comment: Natalie J. Ring, University of Texas at Dallas
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Session 4-B Cotton Mill 1:15–2:30 pm
Old Traditions and New Deals: Healthcare in Louisiana
Kevin McQueeney, Nicholls State University, Chair
“Cajun Traiteurs”
Shelby Robert, Southern New Hampshire University
“The Founding of Lafayette Charity Hospital: New Deal Reforms in Louisiana Healthcare, 1933-1937”
Rex R. Jones Jr., Louisiana State University
Comment: Kevin McQueeney, Nicholls State University
Session 4-C Dauphine I 1:15–2:30 pm
Politicians and Purveyors of Hate: KKK, Citizens’ Councils, and Promoters of White Supremacy in Louisiana
Leah Widmeyer, Louisiana State University Shreveport, Chair
“‘. . . will very likely be tax deductible:’ The Association of Citizens’ Councils of Louisiana Scholarship Fund, 1956-1959”
Charles J. Pellegrin, Northwestern State University
“Who Were Louisiana’s Klansmen of the Early 1920s?
Findings from Gov. John Parker’s List of Ku Klux Klan Members”
Michael S. Martin, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
“Ned Touchstone, Purveyor of Hate”
Laura L. McLemore, Louisiana State University Shreveport
Comment: Leah Widmeyer, Louisiana State University Shreveport
SESSION BREAK Foyer 2:45–3:00 pm
Sponsor: Whitney Plantation
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Session 5-A
Bienville 2:45–4:00 pm
Reconstruction and Its Aftermath
John C. Rodrigue, Stonehill College, Chair
“William Pitt Kellogg: ‘Carpetbagger’ and Political Survivor”
Adam Fairclough, Leiden University
“Fractured Freedoms: Reconstructing Central Louisiana”
David T. Ballantyne, Keele University
Comment: John C. Rodrigue, Stonehill College
Session 5-B Cotton Mill 2:45–4:00 pm
Unearthing Treasures Along the Coast: Providing New Frames of Interpretation for the History and Culture of the German-Acadian Coast
Jessica Blake, Austin Peay State University, Chair
“‘First, Best Loved, and Acknowledged Child:’ Eugenie Armant and the Secrets of One Creole Family”
Katy Morlas Shannon, Independent Scholar
“In Search of Community on a Small Sugar Plantation in St. James Parish”
Clint Bruce, Université Sainte-Anne
“Roots as Routes to Understanding Who We Are: Applying Documentary Research and Genetic Evidence to a ‘Little-Known’ St. James Parish Family”
Jari C. Honora, The Historic New Orleans Collection
Comment: Jessica Blake, Austin Peay State University
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Session 5-C
Dauphine I 2:45–4:00 pm
Public Facing Microhistories of Early Louisiana
Ian Beamish, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Chair
“Looking for ‘Petit Jean:’
Public-Facing History and the Memory of French Louisiana in Arkansas”
Nathan Marvin, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
“From Property to Prosperity: Free Women of Color in Louisiana”
Robin G. Parson, Independent Scholar
“Frenchified in Balbásha:’
Narrating and Publicizing Hidden Histories of Slave Resilience”
Yevan Terrien, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Comment: Ian Beamish, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
SESSION BREAK Foyer 2:45–3:00 pm
Sponsor: Tulane Department of French and Italian
9 PLENARY SESSION I 9
Fulton 4:15-5:30 p.m.
“Myths, Memory, and Indigenous Survival in the Gulf South”
Elizabeth Ellis
Associate Professor of History, Princeton University
This session is sponsored by the Guilbeau Charitable Trust, History Department of University of Louisiana at Lafayette
THIS SESSION IS OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
CASH BAR Foyer 6:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m.
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9 LHA BANQUET 9
Riverside Ballroom II & III
Karen Lathem, Louisiana State Museum, presiding
LHA PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:
“‘A Delight to the Eye:’ Native American Baskets in the Hands of Crescent City Ladies”
Daniel Usner
p.m.
Professor of History, Vanderbilt University and LHA President ($60, tickets must be purchased in advance)
9 SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 2024 9
Session 6-A
9:00–10:15 am
Louisiana Animal Histories
Foregrounding Nonhuman Animals in Louisiana History
Brett Mizelle, California State University, Long Beach, Chair
“The Emergence of an Animal Empire?: Animal Imperialism in Eighteenth-Century Louisiana”
Andreas Hübner, Kiel University
“Of All Animals the Mule is Most Apt to Recalcitrate”
Charlotte Jones, Louisiana State University
“Animal Characters in the Louisiana Décima”
William D. Buckingham, Institute for Public Ethnomusicology
Tracing the Animal’s Past: Approaches, Methods, Conflicts
Mieke Roscher, Kassel University
10 PRESIDENTIAL RECEPTION Foyer 9:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
7:00-9:00
Bienville
Session 6-B
Cotton Mill 9:00–10:15 am
Racial Violence and Policing in Louisiana from Reconstruction to Jim Crow
John Bardes, Louisiana State University, Chair
“The Reconfiguration of White Power at the Dawn of Reconstruction: The Massacre of Bossier and Caddo Parish during the Autumn of 1868” Samuel Parent, Université de Sherbrooke
“The ‘Black Sherlock Holmes’: Bounty Hunter Frank Walker and African American Identification in Louisiana, 1890-1930”
Kevin McQueeney, Nicholls State University
Comment: Christopher Cook, Louisiana State Museum
SESSION BREAK Foyer 10:15–10:30 am
Sponsor: Murphy Institute at Tulane University
Session 7-A Bienville 10:30–11:45 am
Making a Way Out of No Way: New Research in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans, Women of Color, and Agency
Caryn Cossé Bell, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Chair
“Black Queen to Move: Statu Liberi and the Case of Pauline Bienvenue”
Kendric J. Perkins, University of New Orleans
“Coffee-Seller Rose Nicaud and Her Journey from Enslavement to Businesswoman”
Jari C. Honora, The Historic New Orleans Collection
“Financing Freedom: Two Examples
Drawn from the New Orleans Notarial Archives”
Lili LeGardeur, University of New Orleans
Comment: Caryn Cossé Bell, University of Massachusetts Lowell
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Session 7-B Cotton Mill
10:30–11:45 am
New Methodological Approaches to the History of Louisiana
Jessica Marie Johnson, The Johns Hopkins University, Chair
“Exiled Performers from Saint-Domingue (Haiti) and the Origins of Blackface in New Orleans”
Philippe Girard, McNeese State University
“Paul Octave Hebert: Reformer or Redeemer”
Jessica DeJohn Bergen, McNeese State University
“An Environmental History of the Civil War Battle of New Orleans”
Michael Thomas Smith, McNeese State University
Comment: K. Stephen Prince, Louisiana State University
9 LHA SATURDAY LUNCHEON 9
Riverside Ballroom III noon-1:00 p.m.
“Voodoo: An African American Religion”
Jeffery Anderson
Professor of History, University of Louisiana at Monroe
This luncheon is sponsored by LSU Press ($30, tickets must be purchased in advance)
9 General Membership Meeting 9
Dauphine I 1:15-1:45 p.m.
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Session 8-A Bienville 2:00–3:15 pm
Pedagogies of Resistance: Transatlantic Histories of African American Education
Elizabeth C. Neidenbach, The Historic New Orleans Collection, Chair
“Fugitive Pedagogy: The Haitian Revolution, Afro-Creole Teachers, and Public Education in New Orleans, 1809-1841”
Petra Munro Hendry, Louisiana State University
“The Fillmore Boys School and Creole Children of Color in Reconstruction New Orleans”
Mishio Yamanaka, Sophia University, Japan
Comment: Laura Rosanne Adderley, Tulane University
Session 8-B Cotton Mill 2:00–3:15 pm
Louisiana and the Pop 1960s Roundtable
Court Carney, Stephen F. Austin State University, Moderator
Jessica Dauterive, George Mason University
Shannon Frystak, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania
Ben Sandmel, Independent Scholar
Comment: Audience
SESSION BREAK Foyer 3:15–3:30 pm
Sponsor: Tulane Department of History
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9 PLENARY SESSION II 9
Fulton 3:30-5:00 p.m.
ROUNDTABLE:
The Place of History in Contemporary Indigenous Cultural Resurgence in Louisiana and the Gulf Coast Region
Robert Caldwell (Choctaw-Apache Community of Ebarb) The University at Buffalo, Moderator
Scierra LeGarde (Bayou Lacombe Band of Choctaw)
Fifth-year apprentice doing split cane and palmetto baskets, member of Okla Hina Ikhish Holo (People of the Sacred Medicine Trail), and avid stickball player
Colleen Billiot (United Houma Nation)
Co-founder of the Houma Language Project, apprentice basket weaver and storyteller, and tribal history enthusiast
Becky Thomas Meziere (Clifton Choctaw)
Longleaf pine needle basket maker, beader, proprietor of Ohoyo Native Beadwork (ONB) and Petit Nations Trading Post
Rhonda Gauthier (Choctaw-Apache)
President Ho Minti Society, Louisiana Tradition Bearer, and retired Louisiana State Parks interpretive ranger
John Barbry (Tunica-Biloxi)
Director of Development and Programming, Tunica-Biloxi Language & Culture Revitalization Program (LCRP)
This session is sponsored by the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane University
THIS SESSION IS OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
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Optional
Activities to Consider While You Are in New Orleans
Museums, Plantations, Tours, and Other Activities
The Historic New Orleans Collection
Several Facilities in French Quarter
Tuesdays – Sundays, 9:30am - 4:30pm
Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience
818 Howard Ave., NOLA 70113
Wednesdays – Mondays, 10am – 5pm
Whitney Plantation
5099 Louisiana Hwy 18, Edgard, LA 70049
Wednesdays – Mondays, 9:30am – 4:30pm
French Quarter Walking Tours
Friends of the Cabildo
Everyday 10:30am & 1:30pm
Louisiana State Museum
Several Facilities in French Quarter
Tuesdays – Sundays, 9:00am - 4pm
National World War II Museum
945 Magazine St, NOLA 70130
Everyday, 9am – 5pm
Southern Food and Beverage Museum
1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd, NOLA 70113
Wednesday – Monday, 11am-5pm
Vue Orleans
2 Canal Street, NOLA 70130
Everyday, 10am – 6pm
Tennessee Williams Literary Festival
Throughout the French Quarter; March 20-24
New Orleans Museum of Art
1 Collins Diboll Cir, NOLA 70124
Tuesdays – Sundays, hours vary
Contemporary Arts Center
900 Camp St, NOLA 70130
Wednesdays – Mondays, 11am – 5pm
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
925 Camp St, NOLA 70130
Everyday, 10am – 5pm
Herman-Grima / Gallier Houses
French Quarter
Wednesdays – Mondays, 10am – 4pm
Mardi Gras World
1380 Port of New Orleans Pl., NOLA 70130
Everyday, 9am – 5:30pm
Congo Square and Louis Armstrong Park
701 N. Rampart Street
Everyday, 8am – 7pm
Audubon Zoo
6500 Magazine St, NOLA 70118
Everyday, 10am – 5pm
Audubon Aquarium & Insectarium
1 Canal Street, NOLA 70130
Everyday, 10am – 5pm
Nearby Restaurants and Bars
The American Sector $$
1035 Magazine Street
Annunciation $$$
1016 Annunciation Street
Cochon Butcher $$
930 Tchoupitoulas Street
Compére Lapin $$$
535 Tchoupitoulas St.
Corporation Bar and Grill $
931 S. Peters St.
Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken $$
308 S. Diamond St.
Mother’s Restaurant $$
401 Poydras St.
NOLA Taphouse $$
1128 Tchoupitoulas St.
Restaurant Rebirth $$$
857 Fulton St.
Two Chicks Cafe $$
901 Convention Center Blvd. #109
Shopping
The Outlet Collection at Riverwalk 500 Port of New Orleans The Shops at Canal Place 333 Canal Street French Market 1008 N. Peters Street 15
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
2000
Warren M. Billings
Patricia Brady
Stephen Webre
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
2010
Samuel Shepherd
Janet Allured
2011
Paul Hoffman
Mark Fernandez
2013
Lawrence Powell
2018
Alecia Long
2019
Michael S. Martin
John Rodrigue
2020
V. Elaine Thompson
James D. Wilson, Jr.
2015
Evan
2016
Yvonne
2017 Clayton
2018 Elyse
2019
2020
Jackson Pearson
Greg Robinson
2021
no awards
2022
Kate Birbeck
Rothera
Wiencek
Henry
Brown
Warden
Paul
Butler
William Jones
D. Gerstenecke
Lewandoski
Julia
Eric Becerra
AMOS E. SIMPSON TRAVEL GRANT FOR RESEARCH ON LOUISIANA HISTORY
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1974
Roger Fischer (book)
KEMPER WILLIAMS PRIZE FOR BEST BOOK ON LOUISIANA HISTORY
Robert Snyder (manuscript)
1975
Joe Gray Taylor (book)
1976
John Preston Moore (book)
Stephen Zink (manuscript)
1977
Jay Higginbotham (book)
Reinhart Kondert (manuscript)
1978
Peyton McCrary (book)
Carl Brasseaux (manuscript)
1979 no prizes awarded
1980
Thomas Becnel (book)
1981
Edward Haas (book)
Brady Banta (manuscript)
1982
Joseph Dawson (book)
Michael Kurtz (manuscript)
1983
Robert Bush (book)
Terry Jones (manuscript)
1984
Thomas Cutrer (book)
Raimund Berchtold (manuscript)
1985
Edward Haas (manuscript)
1986
Annabelle Melville (book)
Eric Arnesen (manuscript)
1987
Terry Jones (book)
John Heitmann (manuscript)
1988
Gilbert Din (book)
Vaughan Baker (manuscript)
1989
Lawrence Estaville, Jr. (book)
Kimberly Hanger (manuscript)
1990
Michael Kurtz and Morgan Peoples (book)
Donald Frazier (manuscript)
1991
William Ivy Hair (book)
Daniel Usner, Jr. (manuscript)
1992
Ann Patton Malone (book)
Glenn Conrad (manuscript)
1993
Kim Lacy Rogers (book)
1994
Judith Kelleher Schafer (book)
1995
Adam Fairclough (book)
1996
Pamela Tyler (book)
1997
Kimberly Hanger (book)
1998
Carl Ekberg
1999
Gilbert Din
2000
Lawrence Powell
2001
John Rodrigue
2002
Carl Ekberg
2003
John Sacher
2004
Peter Kastor
2005
Rebecca Scott
2006
Mark Souther
2007
Emily Clark
2008
Sophie Burton & F. Todd Smith
2009
Jennifer Spears
2010
Richard Campanella
2011
Lake Douglas
2012
Lawrence Powell
2013
Scott Marler
2014
Michael Ross
2015
Eberhard L. Faber
2016
Rashauna Johnson
2017
Urmi Willoughby
2018
Walter C. Stern
2019
Sophie White
2020
Jessica Marie Johnson
2021
K. Stephen Prince
2022
Kathryn Olivarius
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PRESIDENTS’ MEMORIAL AWARD FOR BEST ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN LOUISIANA HISTORY
1966
Thomas A. Harwood
1967
Frank M. Lovrich
1968
Jerry A. Micelli
1969
Charles B. Dew
1970
Jack D. L. Holmes
1971
Raleigh A. Suarez
1972
Edward F. Haas
1973
L. E. Estaville, Jr.
1974
Gary B. Mills
1975
Robert E. Snyder
1976
Joseph G. Tregle, Jr.
1977
James H. Dormon
1978
Gilbert C. Din
1979
Loren Schweninger
1980
Carl A. Brasseaux
1981
Alan Brinkley
1982
George Rable
1983
Matthew J. Schott
1984
Stephen Webre
1985
Chris Nordmann
1986
Carl A. Brasseaux
1987
Ann Patton Malone
1988
Paul Lachance
1989
Loren Schweninger
1990
Joseph G. Tregle Jr.
1991
Jerah Johnson
1992
Sheridan E. Young
1993
Kimberly Hanger
1994
R. Randall Couch
1995
Arthé Anthony
1996
Gilbert C. Din
1997
James D. Wilson, Jr.
1998
Michael G. Wade
1999
James E. Fickle
2000
Solomon K. Smith
2001
John M. Sacher
2002
Arthé Anthony
2003
John W. Scott
2004
Simon Wendt
2005
Sarah Russell
2006
Rocky Sexton
2007
Philippe Girard
2008
Justin Nystrom
2009
Lesley-Anne Reed
2010
Kimberly Krupa
2011
Robert Gudmestad
2012
Elizabeth Shown Mills
2013
Michelle Grigsby Coffey
2014
Lou Falkner Williams
2015
Jeroen Dewulf
2016
James E. Wainwright
2017
Elizabeth Ellis
2018
Virginia Gould
2019
Brady Banta
2020
Carolyn Morrow Long
2021
Janet Morrison
2022
Eva Baham
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1991
Henry O. Robertson, Jr.
Louisiana State Univ.
1992
Paul Quin
Louisiana State Univ.
1993
Theresa Golden
Appalachian St. Univ.
1994
Christopher Strain
University of Georgia
1995
V. Elaine Thompson Rice University
1996
James D. Wilson, Jr.
USL
1997
Megan Dee
Southeastern La. Univ.
1998
James D. Wilson, Jr. Cornell University
HUGH F. RANKIN PRIZE
1999
Sarah Russell
Univ. of Maryland
2000
Sophie White
University of Derby
2001
Julia Huston Nguyen
Louisiana State Univ.
2002
J. Mark Souther Tulane University
2003
J. P. Le Glaunec Univ. de Paris
2004
Michael Pasquier
Florida State Univ.
2005
Yvonne Brown
UL Lafayette
2006
James Savage
UL Lafayette
2007
Michele Grigsby Coffey
Univ. of South Carolina
2008
Joseph Stoltz
Univ. of New Orleans
2009
Walter C. Stern
Tulane University
2010
Beth Kressel
Univ. of Michigan Law School
2011
Owen James Hyman
Southeastern La. Univ.
2012
Michael Smith
UL Lafayette
2013
David Bennett
Michigan St. Univ.
2014
Emily Owens
Harvard Univ.
2015
Caroline Hymel
La. Tech Univ.
2016
Henry Wiencek
Univ. Texas at Austin
2017
Karen McKinney
UL Lafayette
2018
John Bardes
Tulane University
2019
Charlotte Jones
Tulane University
2020
Jacob Gautreaux
Louisiana State Univ.
2021
Benjamin Groth
Tulane University
2022
Nathalie Rech
Univ. de Quebéc à Montréal
2008-09
Scott Marler
2010-11
Shannon Frystak
2012-13
Dan Usner
2014-15
Samuel Biagetti
2016-17
Jeffery Adler
2018
Whitney Nell Stewart
2019
Kathryn Olivarius
2020
Elizabeth Ellis
2021
Ann Ostendorf
2022
Robert Heligman
BEST GRADUATE-LEVEL PAPER
FOR
GLENN R. CONRAD PRIZE FOR BEST PUBLISHED ARTICLE ON LOUISIANA HISTORY
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1991
Bennett H. Wall
1992
Joseph G. Tregle, Jr.
1993
Morgan Peoples
1994
Gilbert C. Din
1995
Glenn R. Conrad
1996
Amos E. Simpson
1997
Mathé Allain
1998
John D. Winters
1999
Edward F. Haas
2000
Michael L. Kurtz
2001
Carl A. Brasseaux
2002
Thomas A. Becnel
2003
Warren M. Billings
2004
Judith K. Schafer
2005
Roman Heleniak
2007
Philip Cook
KIMBERLY
2000
Katherine Slaikeu
2001
Chris Brown
2002
Keith Manuel
2003
Katie Clark 2004
Victoria Black
2005
Angelique
2006
Lesley-Anne
2008
Judith F. Gentry
2011
Paul Hoffman
2012
Thomas D. Watson
2013
Vaughan Baker
2014
Lawrence Powell
2015
Michael Wade
2016
Stephen Webre
2018
Virginia Gould
2007
Kathryn Fernandez
2008
Mary Wubbena 2009
Jason Straight 2010
Linda
Daniel
Chad
2013
2019
Samuel Shepherd
2020
Jerry Sanson
2021
Light Cummins
2022
Charles Vincent
2023
Mark Fernandez
2014
2021
Lauren Guillory
2022
Shelby Cumpton
MERITORIOUS
FOR SERVICE TO THE LOUISIANA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
GARNIE W. McGINTY
AWARD
S. HANGER AWARD FOR BEST UNDERGRADUATE-LEVEL PAPER
& Yvonne Brown
Hurling
Reed
Meghann Landry 2011
Bird 2012
Manuel & Alexandria Seltenrich
& Brenton Gryder
Landrum
Molly Conway 2015 Jamie Wright 2016 Donovan Stone 2017 Matthew Flanders 2018
Bailey Stark 2019 no award 2020 Thomas Streback
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