AAS 456 / HIS 456 / URB 456 / HUM 456

What Is New Orleans?

Joshua B. Guild

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This course explores the history of what has been described as an “impossible but inevitable city” over three centuries. Settled on perpetually shifting swampland at the foot of one of the world’s great waterways, this port city served as an outpost of three empires and a gateway linking the N. American heartland with the Gulf Coast, Caribbean, and Atlantic World. From European and African settlement through the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we will consider how race, culture, and the environment have defined the history of the city and its people.

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