6:00 p.m.

Reception
Exhibition Reception for The 18th Star: Treasures from 200 Years of Louisiana Statehood
The Historic New Orleans Collection
533 Royal Street

8:00 a.m.  

Registration

8:45 a.m.

Opening Remarks
Alecia P. Long, Symposium Moderator
Associate Professor of History
Louisiana State University

9:00 a.m.

Becoming American: Louisiana after 1812
Jason Wiese, Assistant Director
Williams Research Center, The Historic New Orleans Collection

9:40 a.m. 

Break

10:00 a.m.

“Le Dérangement des affaires commerciales” (The Derangement of Commercial Affairs): New Orleans and Panic in 1837
Jessica Lepler, Assistant Professor of History
University of New Hampshire

10:45 a.m.  

Battleground State: How Louisiana Drew the Color Line for Post–Civil War Americans
Justin Nystrom, Assistant Professor of History
Loyola University New Orleans

11:30 a.m. 

Lunch (on your own)

1:00 p.m. 

Post-Lunch Remarks
John H. Lawrence, Director of Museum Programs
The Historic New Orleans Collection

1:15 p.m.

From “States Rights” to “Coastal Restoration”: The History of Louisiana’s Claims to Offshore Oil
Tyler Priest, Director of Global Studies
C. T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston

2:00 p.m.

Huey Long and the American People
Edward F. Haas, Professor of History
Wright State University

2:40 p.m.

Break

3:00 p.m

NPR and Katrina: Before and After
Robert Siegel, Senior Host, All Things Considered
NPR

3:45 p.m

Roots to Routes in Louisiana Vernacular Music
Nick Spitzer, Professor and Host, American Routes
Professor of Anthropology and American Studies, Tulane University

4:45 p.m.

Reception
Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres Street
Meet the speakers and tour the research facility