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New Orleans: History And Culture (G512)

G – History

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Wilmington (Arsht Hall) | September 2, 2025-November 11, 2025

Tuesday: 12:45 PM-2:00 PM

This course leads people through the founding of New Orleans as a French colony into its Spanish-ruled years, and onto the last 220 years as an American territory and state and a confederate state. Discover the official laws and unofficial customs that define this unique city. Topics covered include architecture, creole and Cajun cultures and cuisines, music, sex, crime and carnival.

This offering meets for a total of 11 session(s).


INSTRUCTOR: Suzanne Stone

STONE, SUZANNE — Volunteer tour guide in New Orleans, 2016 to 2024, providing French Quarter, architecture, cemetery, culinary and garden district tours as well as specialized tours. Volunteer, National WWII Museum; docent, The Historic New Orleans Collection; docent, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, 2001 to 2015. (G512)


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