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LOUISIANA: The First 300 Years, back on the bookshelves for the first time since Katrina, begins with civilization of the Indians who lived in what is noW Louisiana before the white man came. It traces the discovery, exploration, and control of the state by France and Spain and finally by the United States.
In pictures and text, events come to life from the triumphs of Bernardo Galvez in the Revolutionary War, through Andrew Jackson's victory in the Battle of New Orleans and the campaign of Huey Long for control of the state, to the end of the 20th century.
Meticulously researched, this book is a must for every librarian, teacher, student, tourist, tour guide, and history buff. Written by Joan Garvey and Mary Lou Widmer, teachers, historians, and authors of the BEAUTIFUL CRESCENT, A History of New Orleans. Published by Garmer Press.
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Louisiana, The First 300 Years begins with the formation of the land and the civilization of the Indians who dwelt in what is now Louisiana 1000 years before the rise of ancient Greece.
Discovery and exploration led to control of Louisiana by France and Spain and finally by the United States, as its status changed from a colony to a privately owned company and finally to a state of the Union.
In pictures and text, revolutions and battles come to life, from the triumphs of the colorful Governor Bernardo de G�lvez in the Revolutionary War, through Andrew Jackson's victory in the Battle of New Orleans, to the legal battle of Huey P. Long with the Standard Oil Company
The text traces the immigration of Germans, Acadians, Islenos, Haitians and others seeking freedom and the bounty of Louisiana's natural resources. Rare and unusual illustrations capture poignant moments in the state's development like the forced emigration of the Acadians from their native land and the integration of a small black girl into an all-white school in 1960 in New Orleans.
Meticulously researched, this easy-reading history of Louisiana is a must for every librarian, tourist, tour guide, teacher, student and Louisiana history buff.
JOAN BOUDOUSQUIE GARVEY, a native New Orleanian, retired in 1997 after 20 years in the New Orleans Public School System as a teacher and administrator. She also taught New Orleans History and Tour Guiding at the University of New Orleans Metro College for almost 20 years. She has been a Study Guide for Smithsonian Institute Southern Tours. Joan has given lectures on New Orleans and Louisiana History in training sessions for the Louisiana Tourist Promotion Association, Friends of the Cabildo, and parish school systems throughout the state.
Joan received the University of New Orleans Phi Delta Kappa Researcher of the Year award in 1985 for research for BEAUTIFUL CRESCENT, the first publication by Garvey and Widmer.
A native New Orleanian, Joan received a BA from Loyola University of the South and an MA from University of New Orleans. She and her husband, Walter F. Garvey, designed and operated The Little Toy Shoppe in the French Market and Sugar & Spice, a sweet shop on Jackson Sqaure in New Orleans. Joan and Walter have seven children, fourteen grandchildren, and one greatgrandchild (on the way). The study of New Orleans history came out of a love of the city carried over from ancestors Gus and Francis Williams, maternal uncles, who were active in New Orleans politics in the 1930s. A paternal ancestor, Antoine Boudousquie, printer in New Orleans in service to the Spanish King in 1795, and Charles Boudousquie, a paternal greatgrandfather, the Impresario of the French Opera (in New Orleans) before the Civil War, provide credentials for her membership as a Louisiana Colonial.
MARY LOU SCHULTIS WIDMER is a teacher/novelist/historian whose first book, NIGHT JASMINE, set in New Orleans in 1906, was published by Dell Publishing Company in 1980. Her second novel, LACE CURTAIN, set in New Orleans in 1832 and released by Berkley Publishing Company in 1985 was awarded the Irish Cultural Society's Caomhnoir Award, presented annually to one who is a keeper of Irish traditions in America.
Between these two novels came a long research for the book BEAUTIFUL CRESCENT: A History of New Orleans, which she and her partner Joan Garvey co-authored and co-published in 1983 and is in its 12th edition.
Since 1989, Mary Lou has written five hardcover illustrated nostalgia books for Pelican Publishing Company entitled NEW ORLEANS IN THE TWENTIES, THIRTIES, FORTIES, FIFTIES, AND SIXTIES. All continue to sell briskly.
A native of New Orleans and a life-long resident, Mary Lou graduated from Loyola Univeristy. After teaching for sixteen years, she left the teaching profession to devote herself entirely to writing. She is married to Albert F. Widmer and has two children and four grandchildren. She is past president of the South Lousiana Chapter of Romance Writers of America and a member of the Daughters of 1812 and the Louisisan Colonials, having certified her descent from ancestors living in Louisiana before 1803.
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- PublisherGarmer Press
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0961296046
- ISBN 13 9780961296049
- BindingPerfect Paperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages275
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