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“The First Piano Professors and Lost Music of Early New Orleans”
The exhibit “The First Piano Professors and Lost Music of Early New Orleans” is now on view at the New Orleans Jazz Museum. Co-curated by musician and archivist…
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Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
Located in a historic neighborhood and sharing an entrance atrium with the American Jazz Museum, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, tells the stories of…
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“World War II with Tom Hanks”
The new History Channel documentary miniseries World War II with Tom Hanks launches with three back-to-back episodes at 7 p.m. (Central) on May 25, Memorial Day. The National…
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“Amongst Ourselves: Resisting Slavery at Whitney Plantation”
“Amongst Ourselves: Resisting Slavery at Whitney Plantation,” with wonderful graphic illustrations by Langston Allston, is a collaboration between the Whitney and Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies at…
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“Holocaust Survivors in a New Land: The New Americans Social Club of New Orleans”
A photograph from 1952, displayed in a section of the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience’s permanent galleries, shows a group of people posing on the front steps…
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“Come Back Fighting: USS New Orleans at War”
A heavy cruiser, the USS New Orleans participated in nearly every major World War II battle in the Pacific. As demonstrated in the new changing exhibition “Come Back…
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