Louisiana
New Orleans — French Quarter
The French Quarter is far more than a preserved French district. This walk connects Jackson Square, the Spanish Cabildo, Catholic continuity, plantation wealth and slavery, the Ursulines, Lafitte legend, Bourbon Street tourism, pioneering preservation law, Congo Square and the Mississippi to show how French, Spanish, African, Caribbean and American histories created a neighborhood that survives by changing inside carefully protected architecture.
Stories in New Orleans — French Quarter
- Jackson Square: The French Quarter Is Not Simply French
- The Cabildo: Louisiana Changes Countries in a Government Building
- St. Louis Cathedral: Catholic New Orleans Inside an American Republic
- Royal Street: Creole Wealth Was Built in a Slave Economy
- Old Ursuline Convent: Women Built Institutions in a Colonial Port
- Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop: A Great Building with a Better Legend Than Evidence
- Bourbon Street: The Tourist Street Was Manufactured Too
- Vieux Carré: The French Quarter Had to Be Saved from Modernization
- Congo Square: African Music Remained Public in a Slave City
- Mississippi River: New Orleans Exists Because the River Never Sits Still