Lincoln in New Orleans collections developed over the course of

developed over the course of the year into traditional scholarly article form and subjected to a double-blind peer review

and Opelousas

With stunning revelations

“Hell or High Water is a superb chronicle of Cajun hurricanes and folkways

Lincoln in New Orleans collections developed over the course ofLincoln in New Orleans: The 1828 1831 Flatboat Voyages and Their Place in History by Richard Campanella In 1828, a teenaged Abraham Lincoln guided a flatboat down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. The adventure marked his first visit to a major city and exposed him to the nations largest slave marketplace. It also nearly cost him his life, in a nighttime attack in the Louisiana plantation country. That trip, and a second one in 1831, would form