Best Louisiana History Books (Nonfiction)

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Huey Long
Huey Long 4.23 avg rating — 2,111 ratings
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The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square
The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square 4.01 avg rating — 1,580 ratings
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Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long
Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long 3.91 avg rating — 1,205 ratings
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The Earl of Louisiana
The Earl of Louisiana 4.13 avg rating — 316 ratings
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A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland
A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland 4.26 avg rating — 402 ratings
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Africans In Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century
Africans In Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century 4.40 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital 3.93 avg rating — 39,330 ratings
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People of the Bayou: Cajun Life in Lost America
People of the Bayou: Cajun Life in Lost America 3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman
Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman 3.83 avg rating — 907 ratings
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The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820--1860
The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820--1860 3.77 avg rating — 48 ratings
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The Founding of New Acadia: The Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1765–1803
The Founding of New Acadia: The Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1765–1803 3.80 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Katrina: The Ruin And Recovery of New Orleans
Katrina: The Ruin And Recovery of New Orleans 4.54 avg rating — 48 ratings
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A Perfect War of Politics: Parties, Politicians, and Democracy in Louisiana, 1824–1861
A Perfect War of Politics: Parties, Politicians, and Democracy in Louisiana, 1824–1861 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Cajuns: Americanization of a People
The Cajuns: Americanization of a People 4.03 avg rating — 175 ratings
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Bienville's Dilemma: A Historical Geography of New Orleans
Bienville's Dilemma: A Historical Geography of New Orleans 4.39 avg rating — 205 ratings
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Gumbo Ya-Ya: Folk Tales of Louisiana
Gumbo Ya-Ya: Folk Tales of Louisiana 3.99 avg rating — 418 ratings
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The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans
The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans 3.73 avg rating — 2,173 ratings
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Lords of Misrule: Mardi Gras and the Politics of Race in New Orleans
Lords of Misrule: Mardi Gras and the Politics of Race in New Orleans 3.72 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Pistols And Politics: Feuds, Factions, and the Struggle for Order in Louisiana’s Florida Parishes, 1810–1935
Pistols And Politics: Feuds, Factions, and the Struggle for Order in Louisiana’s Florida Parishes, 1810–1935 4.17 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory
The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory 3.85 avg rating — 731 ratings
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The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans 3.80 avg rating — 666 ratings
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Jefferson's Great Gamble: The Remarkable Story of Jefferson, Napoleon and the Men behind the Louisiana Purchase
Jefferson's Great Gamble: The Remarkable Story of Jefferson, Napoleon and the Men behind the Louisiana Purchase 3.73 avg rating — 227 ratings
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River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom 4.18 avg rating — 440 ratings
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Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table
Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table 3.96 avg rating — 905 ratings
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Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization
Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Witness to the Truth: My Struggle for Human Rights in Louisiana
Witness to the Truth: My Struggle for Human Rights in Louisiana 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast
Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast 4.29 avg rating — 944 ratings
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The Kingfish and His Realm: The Life and Times of Huey P. Long
The Kingfish and His Realm: The Life and Times of Huey P. Long 3.86 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Geographies of New Orleans: Urban Fabrics Before the Storm
Geographies of New Orleans: Urban Fabrics Before the Storm 4.63 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Earl K. Long: The Saga of Uncle Earl and Louisiana Politics (Southern Biography Series)
Earl K. Long: The Saga of Uncle Earl and Louisiana Politics (Southern Biography Series) 3.97 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf
The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf 3.46 avg rating — 412 ratings
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Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans 3.73 avg rating — 4,473 ratings
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The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld
The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld 3.84 avg rating — 608 ratings
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The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast 4.17 avg rating — 3,064 ratings
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Acadian to Cajun: Transformation of a People, 1803-1877
Acadian to Cajun: Transformation of a People, 1803-1877 3.88 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Louisiana in the Age of Jackson: A Clash of Cultures and Personalities
Louisiana in the Age of Jackson: A Clash of Cultures and Personalities 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Bernardo de Gálvez in Louisiana, 1776-1783
Bernardo de Gálvez in Louisiana, 1776-1783 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Ten Flags in the Wind the Story of Louisiana
Ten Flags in the Wind the Story of Louisiana 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Socks on a Rooster: Louisiana's Earl K. Long
Socks on a Rooster: Louisiana's Earl K. Long liked it 3.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story
The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story 3.47 avg rating — 1,460 ratings
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Cajun Music and Zydeco With Companion
Cajun Music and Zydeco With Companion 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children: . . . and Other Streets of New Orleans!
Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children: . . . and Other Streets of New Orleans! 3.80 avg rating — 310 ratings
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Born on the Kitchen Floor in Bois Mallet
Born on the Kitchen Floor in Bois Mallet 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Original Tuxedo Jazz Band: More than a Century of a New Orleans Icon
The Original Tuxedo Jazz Band: More than a Century of a New Orleans Icon 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Bayou Pigeon, LA - Spirit of the Atchafalaya
Bayou Pigeon, LA - Spirit of the Atchafalaya 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment 4.23 avg rating — 12,498 ratings
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The Pirate Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans
The Pirate Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans 3.89 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Capitaine, Voyage Ton Flag: The Traditional Cajun Country Mardi Gras
Capitaine, Voyage Ton Flag: The Traditional Cajun Country Mardi Gras 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Cajun Music: A Reflection of a People, Vol. 1
Cajun Music: A Reflection of a People, Vol. 1 4.71 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Day Huey Long Was Shot
The Day Huey Long Was Shot 4.14 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana
Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Sweet Chariot: Slave Family and Household Structure in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
Sweet Chariot: Slave Family and Household Structure in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Cajun Country (Folklife in the South Series)
Cajun Country (Folklife in the South Series) 4.40 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Readings in Louisiana Politics
Readings in Louisiana Politics 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Accordions, Fiddles, Two Step & Swing: A Cajun Music Reader
Accordions, Fiddles, Two Step & Swing: A Cajun Music Reader 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Acadiana: Louisiana's Historic Cajun Country
Acadiana: Louisiana's Historic Cajun Country 4.33 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Deep Water: Joseph P. Macheca and the Birth of the American Mafia
Deep Water: Joseph P. Macheca and the Birth of the American Mafia 4.53 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Natchitoches and Louisiana’s Timeless Cane River
Natchitoches and Louisiana’s Timeless Cane River 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The British at the Gates: The New Orleans Campaign in the War of 1812
The British at the Gates: The New Orleans Campaign in the War of 1812 3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Color
The Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Color 4.20 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Fabulous New Orleans
Fabulous New Orleans 4.23 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Cajun Mardi Gras Masks (Folk Art and Artists Series)
Cajun Mardi Gras Masks (Folk Art and Artists Series) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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New Orleans after the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society
New Orleans after the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society 3.62 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Politics and Punishment: The History of the Louisiana State Penal System
Politics and Punishment: The History of the Louisiana State Penal System really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana 1718-1868
Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana 1718-1868 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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New Orleans after the Civil War: Race, Politics, and a New Birth of Freedom
New Orleans after the Civil War: Race, Politics, and a New Birth of Freedom 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Louisiana Hayride: Radio and Roots Music along the Red River
Louisiana Hayride: Radio and Roots Music along the Red River 3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Every Man a King: The Autobiography of Huey P. Long
Every Man a King: The Autobiography of Huey P. Long
by: Huey Long
3.85 avg rating — 186 ratings
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The Nation's Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America
The Nation's Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America 3.68 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Natchez Country: Indians, Colonists, and the Landscapes of Race in French Louisiana
Natchez Country: Indians, Colonists, and the Landscapes of Race in French Louisiana 3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Carnival of Fury: Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900
Carnival of Fury: Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900 3.92 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Louisiana's Zydeco
Louisiana's Zydeco 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Fonville Winans' Louisiana: Politics, People and Places
Fonville Winans' Louisiana: Politics, People and Places 4.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Patriotic Fire: Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite at the Battle of New Orleans
Patriotic Fire: Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite at the Battle of New Orleans 4.06 avg rating — 529 ratings
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South To Louisiana: The Music of the Cajun Bayous
South To Louisiana: The Music of the Cajun Bayous 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Along the River Road: Past and Present on Louisiana's Historic Byway
Along the River Road: Past and Present on Louisiana's Historic Byway 4.08 avg rating — 37 ratings
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MciIhenny's Gold
MciIhenny's Gold 3.67 avg rating — 315 ratings
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The Kingfish and the Constitution: Huey Long, the First Amendment, and the Emergence of Modern Press Freedom in America
The Kingfish and the Constitution: Huey Long, the First Amendment, and the Emergence of Modern Press Freedom in America 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Cajun Sketches: From the Prairies of Southwest Louisiana
Cajun Sketches: From the Prairies of Southwest Louisiana 4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Pelican Guide to the Louisiana Capitol, The
Pelican Guide to the Louisiana Capitol, The 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Creole Echoes: The Francophone Poetry of Nineteenth-Century Louisiana
Creole Echoes: The Francophone Poetry of Nineteenth-Century Louisiana 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Bayou-Diversity: Nature and People in the Louisiana Bayou Country
Bayou-Diversity: Nature and People in the Louisiana Bayou Country 4.40 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Requiem for a Kingfish
Requiem for a Kingfish
by: Ed Reed
3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape (Center Books)
New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape (Center Books) 4.10 avg rating — 49 ratings
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A Fierce and Fractious Frontier: The Curious Development of Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1699–2000
A Fierce and Fractious Frontier: The Curious Development of Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1699–2000 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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French, Cajun, Creole, Houma: A Primer on Francophone Louisiana
French, Cajun, Creole, Houma: A Primer on Francophone Louisiana 4.29 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Steamboats on Louisiana's Bayous: A History and Directory
Steamboats on Louisiana's Bayous: A History and Directory 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Beautiful Crescent: A History of New Orleans
Beautiful Crescent: A History of New Orleans 3.51 avg rating — 258 ratings
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Louisiana Hayride Years: Making Musical History in Country's Golden Age
Louisiana Hayride Years: Making Musical History in Country's Golden Age 4.29 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Old Louisiana
Old Louisiana 4.22 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Elvis, Hank, and Me: Making Musical History on the Louisiana Hayride
Elvis, Hank, and Me: Making Musical History on the Louisiana Hayride 4.29 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Lafitte the Pirate
Lafitte the Pirate 3.91 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Louisiana, Yesterday and Today: A Historical Guide to the State
Louisiana, Yesterday and Today: A Historical Guide to the State 3.29 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Creole City: A Chronicle of Early American New Orleans
Creole City: A Chronicle of Early American New Orleans 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Huey Long Invades New Orleans: The Siege of a City, 1934-36
Huey Long Invades New Orleans: The Siege of a City, 1934-36 3.84 avg rating — 31 ratings
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A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz (American Made Music Series)
A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz (American Made Music Series) 3.76 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Louisiana: A History
Louisiana: A History 3.82 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans 4.55 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Coozan Dudley Leblanc: From Huey Long to Hadacol
Coozan Dudley Leblanc: From Huey Long to Hadacol 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Stories from the St. Louis Cemeteries of New Orleans
Stories from the St. Louis Cemeteries of New Orleans 4.10 avg rating — 40 ratings
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