Programs by Genre - History
Book Talks
10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Capitol Park Museum, Third Floor
Chenier Plain
Richard B. Crowell
11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
State Capitol, House Committee Room 5
Creolization in the French Americas
Jordan Kellman, Michael S. Martin, and Jean-Marc Masseaut
11:30 a.m. to Noon
Capitol Park Museum, Third Floor
Fonville Winan’s Louisiana: Politics, People, and Places
Cyril E. Vetter
12:15 p.m. to 12:45 p.m.
Capitol Park Museum, Third Floor
Two Civil Wars: The Curious Shared Journal of a Baton Rouge Schoolgirl and a Union Sailor on the USS Essex
Katherine Bentley Jeffrey
1 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Capitol Park Museum, First Floor
Marc-Antoine Caillot and the Company of the Indies in Louisiana: Trade in the French Atlantic World
Erin Greenwald
1:45 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Capitol Park Museum, First Floor
Military Aviation in the Gulf South
Vincent P. Caire
2:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Capitol Park Museum, First Floor
Win the Race or Die Trying: Uncle Earl’s Last Hurrah
Jack B. McGuire
2 p.m. to 2:45 p.m
Capitol Park Museum, Third Floor
Scotlandville
Rachel L. Emanuel, Ruby Jean Simms, and Charles Vincent
2:45 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.
State Capitol, Senate Committee Room A
A View from the Inside…Thirty-Six Years of Desegregation
Thomas J. Durant Jr.
3:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.
Capitol Park Museum, First Floor
New Orleans Women and the Poydras Home: More Durable than Marble
Pamela Tyler
3:30 to 4 p.m.
State Capitol, Senate Committee Room A
Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life
Philippe R. Girard
Discussions
1 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.
Capitol Park Museum, Third Floor
Louisiana Cities: Hammond and Kenner
Craig A. Bauer, An Untractable Country: The History of Kenner, Louisiana
Eric W. Johnson and Catherine Tijerino, Hammond
2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
State Capitol, House Committee Room 6
America’s Third Coast
Shane K. Bernard, Teche: A History of Louisiana’s Most Famous Bayou
Christopher Cenac and Claire Domangue Joller, Hard Scrabble to Hallelujah:
Legacies of Terrebonne Parish
Joined by Carl Brasseaux, Wendy Rodrigue, and Eric Paulsen
3 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.
Capitol Park Museum, Third Floor
Remembering Baton Rouge
Matt Isch, Capitol Park and Spanish Town
Doug Villien, Forgotten Baton Rouge
Volunteer
Book-loving volunteers are essential to the Louisiana Book Festival's success. Whether it's escorting authors, guiding visitors, selling refreshments, working with children in the Young Readers Pavilion or other fun and rewarding assignments, the Louisiana Book Festival wants you to join the volunteer team.
