Southern Elegies

03/22/2024

Most people believe that the abolitionist movement ended with the Civil War but that is not true," says Professor Richard Blackett of Vanderbilt University who shares his thoughts on the modern civil rights movement as well as details about Samuel Ringold Ward, an obscure but important 19th-century labor leader and abolitionist whom he just published a book about.
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‎Society & Culture · 2024

03/17/2023

She is a ground-breaking researcher and former university professor bringing about change in Southern Louisiana. Listen to my podcast and find out how her work is bringing her
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Dr. Hayes discusses her work as founder and president of the Iberia African American Historical Society after retiring as Dean of the College of General Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She talks at length about the effects of...

07/05/2022

For everyone and anyone who loves New Orleans, this episode is for you! It's my love song to the city I adore--with all its peccadillos!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1941233/episodes/10898810

07/03/2022

In honor of July 4th, here is the first in a two-part series on Louisiana and New Orleans. The battle of New Orleans was considered the greatest land battle to date and the resounding American victory soon became a symbol of American democracy triumphing over the old European ideas of aristocracy and entitlement. The battle was the last major armed engagement between the United States and Britain before the American Revolution. Thank you Jacques Couret!

In the first of two interviews with Jacques Couret, we discuss the origins of Louisiana culture and food and how the state laid the seeds of our future independence from the British

05/24/2022

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1941233/10670238

The incomparable Jacques Couret, New Orleans native, writer, journalist, and etymologist-by-hobby, explains some of the most misunderstood or unknown origins of familiar Southern words and terms with his sweet and precious sense of humor in tow.
Check your knowledge and understanding against his and send me your comments at Southernelegies.com

Conversations about the truths, lies and misconceptions that define Southern culture

05/18/2022

Now's the time to discuss the
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