City History: New Orleans

By: Steve Keller
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  • A podcast exploring the history of cities from their founding to today—or their destruction. This season: New Orleans. Your support helps buy the books needed to make each episode! https://ko-fi.com/cityhistory We'll cover New Orleans's founding, its evolution through French, Spanish and American rule, the battle that saved it in 1815, its dramatic capture and occupation during the Civil War, its unique legacy of race and slavery, how it survived Prohibition, the Depression and hurricanes, Mardi Gras, jazz and the future New Orleans may (or may not) have.
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Episodes
  • 1.28: The Saints Go Marching In

    1.28: The Saints Go Marching In
    Apr 12 2025

    After victory, New Orleans exhales... then throws its biggest party yet. We meet some fun characters as the British evacuate the field. Andrew Jackson is (symbolically) crowned Roman emperor.


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    The Greatest Fury: The Battle of New Orleans and the Rebirth of America by William C. Davis

    The British at the Gates: The New Orleans Campaign in the War of 1812 by Robin Reilly

    The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory by Robert V. Remini

    The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N. Powell

    The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette

    "The Battle of New Orleans Reconsidered: Andrew Jackson and Martial Law" by Matthew Warshauer
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    23 mins
  • 1.27: The Battle of New Orleans

    1.27: The Battle of New Orleans
    Mar 5 2025

    An invading British army is obliterated by an unlikely coalition: American frontiersmen, French speakers, free men of color, pirates and a hundred kinds more. New Orleans is saved.


    LEARN MORE:

    The Greatest Fury: The Battle of New Orleans and the Rebirth of America by William C. Davis

    The British at the Gates: The New Orleans Campaign in the War of 1812 by Robin Reilly

    The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory by Robert V. Remini

    The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N. Powell

    The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf by William C. Davis

    The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette

    "Jean Lafitte, the Baratarians, and the Battle of New Orleans: A Reappraisal" by Robert C. Vogel

    "Always 'En Garde': The Effects of Slave Insurrection upon the Louisiana Mentality, 1811-1815" by Junius P. Rodriguez

    "William Claiborne and New Orleans's Battalion of Color, 1803-1815: Race and the Limits of Federal Power in the Early Republic" by James E. Wainwright

    "The Battle of New Orleans Reconsidered: Andrew Jackson and Martial Law" by Matthew Warshauer

    "British Command Decisions Relative to the Battle of New Orleans" by John K. Mahon
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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • 1.26: Line Jackson

    1.26: Line Jackson
    Jan 18 2025

    The Americans build a wall to defend New Orleans. The British army pays for it.

    Donate to help the victims and families of the New Year's tragedy on Bourbon Street.

    https://www.gnof.org/new-orleans-new-years-day-tragedy-fund-2/

    https://www.unitedwaysela.org/UnitedforNOLA


    LEARN MORE:

    The Greatest Fury: The Battle of New Orleans and the Rebirth of America by William C. Davis

    The British at the Gates: The New Orleans Campaign in the War of 1812 by Robin Reilly

    The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory by Robert V. Remini

    The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N. Powell

    The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf by William C. Davis

    The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette

    "British Command Decisions Relative to the Battle of New Orleans" by John K. Mahon
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    28 mins
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Fantastic and engaging!

I am really enjoying this podcast. Really appreciate the level of detail, the selection of anecdotes, as well as how the podcaster fills in what’s going on in the world at different periods and how it affects New Orleans.
Good production and just overall a pleasure to listen to. Learning a ton!

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Informative and engaging

content and voice clarity were on point. I appreciate the podcaster providing historical facts with dates and names involved.

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