Excerpted from Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves by Ira Berlin, out now from Harvard University Press. This article supplements Episode 1 of The History of American ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The new pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans genealogist, who began digging in the archives and discovered the pope had deep roots in the ...
These were the words of an elderly Creole woman from New Orleans, who spoke to me recently in light of the elevation of Robert Prevost to office of the Holy See. Those words spoke to a long tradition ...
Creolizations. Lafcadio Hearn's American writings and the Creole continuum / Mary Gallagher ; Auguste Lussan's La famille créole: how Saint-Domingue émigrés became Louisiana Creoles / Typhaine ...