Chaos of Emancipation
Special guest post today at National Archives blog, “Rediscovering Black History” about the Chaos of Emancipation in northeast Louisiana, 1863. Much thanks to Tina Ligon and others for making this possible!
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Archives Month – Ouachita Parish Library
In this final installment of my Archives Month series, I want to continue by highlighting another small repository. The Special Collections and Genealogy Departments at the Ouachita Parish Public Library in Monroe, Louisiana provided me with outstanding resources. Not only more »
Archives Month – Texas Heritage Museum
I thought I’d change my focus in this post to look at one of the smaller repositories that I visited, the Texas Heritage Museum at Hill College in Waco, Texas. Their research center was formerly known as the Confederate Research more »
Archives Month – Tulane University
In the second installment of my Archives Month series, I wanted to highlight Tulane University’s Special Collections – in particular, their Louisiana Research Collection, otherwise known as LaRC. I had only limited time to do research when I was there, more »
Archives Month – LSU Special Collections
In honor of Archives Month, I thought I would post once a week about various repositories which I visited, and comment upon some of the resources I found. Today, I’ll write about Louisiana State University, Special Collections, specifically their Louisiana more »