Post-Katrina urban planning and the ongoing pursuit of resilience will take center stage at the 2025 Morrison Lecture hosted ...

Their determination, collective action and sheer will served as a powerful example for all New Orleanians. They taught us ...

Wartime Saigon History, Conflict, and Memory Wartime Saigon History, Conflict, and Memory July 19, 2025, 2–3 p.m. Williams Research Center 410 Chartres Street Free admission, registration required ...

Join us at the Shop at the Collection for a special joint book signing with Wendy A. Gaudin, author of Sunset Limited: An Autobiography of Creole, and Katy Morlas Shannon, author of Invisible ...

Known as “the Harlem of New Orleans,” South Rampart was located “back o’ town” in a low-lying, marshy area where the Black ...

The new Historic New Orleans Collection exhibit “The Trail They Blazed” got its start about a decade ago with an oral history project called NOLA Resistance, an effort to record the voices of ...

The Historic New Orleans Collection will offer a free screening of “The Cincinnati Kid” on Saturday, August 30th at 10:30 a.m. in the Williams Research Center. The screening marks the fourth ...

Jari Honora, a historian at the Historic New Orleans Collection, a museum in the French Quarter, began investigating the new pope’s ancestry on a whim Thursday, suspecting Leo might have some ...

Jari Honora, family historian at The Historic New Orleans Collection, displays genealogy materials related to the grandparents of Pope Leo XIV in New Orleans on Friday, May 9, 2025.

A genealogist with the Historic New Orleans Collection, Jari C. Honora, made the discovery the same day Leo XIV was named pope. And the pope’s older brother, John Prevost, who still lives in ...