Battle of New Orleans and Jackson (an aside)

Here's a great map of the battle from the USMA:

The New Orleans Public Library and research links

Here is a good link to start doing more investigation into your research from the New Orleans Public Library.

A lot has been written about New Orleans in popular and scholarly journals. Databases can be a great way to find things, but sometimes it pays to search the index of publications that are among the most likely to contain useful material. Here are a few you should consider examining more closely:

Louisiana History
The Louisiana Historical Quarterly (became Louisiana History in the 1980s) (both LH and LHQ are in JSTOR)
Cultural Vistas (published by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities)
The Historic New Orleans Quarterly

And, of course, you should search the catalog of the Historic New Orleans Collection (called MINT) for items related to your topic.

The Louisiana State Museum has a lot of useful databases to search, including maps and images. Go to their site and investigate under the "Search and Reference" tab.

Pix from our trip to Spanish Fort and Pitot House

Happy students at Spanish Fort

The oldest fire hydrant!

At Pitot House (nice yawn!)

Old Spanish Custom House

You missed out on your opportunity to buy the Old Spanish Custom House on 1300 Moss St. Check the details here.

The World's Largest King Cake

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

This is a picture of the good andouille place, Wayne Jacob's, in Laplace that I mentioned in class last week. It's on W. 5th almost to River Road. Best andouille anywhere!

Photos from the Campanella bus tour

RC demonstrates his bus-surfing/presentation technique. 

Listening and learning near the Rivergarden / Jackson Avenue area in the old Irish Channel

Decaying old wooden wharves along the river at Felicity Street.

Loyola Students (and a bunch of Tulane Students) eating Vietnamese food in NOE.

New flood protection structures at the outlet of the Industrial Canal

Thanks again to Richard Campanella of Tulane for letting us Loyola folks along for the ride. It was an enjoyable and very informative tour.