Books

For more than thirty years, The Historic New Orleans Collection has been publishing books about the city and the Gulf South as part of our mission to promote the study and preservation of our region’s history and culture. Our award-winning list comprises a wide range of nonfiction titles: high-quality research and scholarship, new editions and translations of archival materials, biographies of visual artists and musicians, and richly illustrated art volumes and exhibition catalogs. We strive always to put the regional and the global in conversation, looking for what each context helps us understand about the other. Authors: if you would like to submit a proposal or manuscript for consideration, please review our guidelines.

Call Me Larry A Creole Man’s Triumph over Racism and Homophobia Larry Bagneris 2025	The Tennessee Williams Annual Review 2024 Number 23 2024	Louisiana Lens Photographs from The Historic New Orleans Collection John H. Lawrence, with a foreword by Jeff L. Rosenheim 2023
The Tennessee Williams Annual Review 2023 Number 22 2023	Spanish New Orleans and the Caribbean / La Nueva Orleans y el Caribe españoles Alfred E. Lemmon, Light Townsend Cummins, and Richard Campanella 2022	The Tennessee Williams Annual Review 2022 Number 21 2022
John Clemmer A Legacy in Art with essays by Judith H. Bonner, John Ed Bradley, and David Clemmer 2021	Dancing in the Streets Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs of New Orleans Judy Cooper, with essays by Rachel Carrico, Freddi Williams Evans, Charles “Action” Jackson, Matt Sakakeeny, and Michael G. White 2021	Economy Hall The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood Fatima Shaik 2021
Monumental Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana Brian K. Mitchell, Barrington S. Edwards, and Nick Weldon 2021	Enrique Alférez Sculptor Katie Bowler Young 2021	THE TENNESSEE WILLIAMS ANNUAL REVIEW 2021 Number 20 2021
Afro-Creole Poetry in French from Louisiana’s Radical Civil War–Era Newspapers A Bilingual Edition translated and introduced by Clint Bruce, with a foreword by Angel Adams Parham 2020	Cajun Document Acadiana, 1973–74 Douglas Baz and Charles H. Traub 2020	The Tennessee Williams Annual Review 2020 Number 19
Enigmatic Stream Industrial Landscapes of the Lower Mississippi River Richard Sexton 2019	The Tennessee Williams Annual Review 2019 Number 18 2019	The Tennessee Williams Annual Review 2018 Number 17 2018
New Orleans, the Founding Era La Nouvelle-Orléans, les années fondatrices edited by / édité par Erin M. Greenwald; translated by / traduit par Henry Colomer 2018	The Tennessee Williams Annual Review 2017 Number 16 2017	Guidebooks to Sin The Blue Books of Storyville, New Orleans by Pamela D. Arceneaux, with a foreword by Emily Epstein Landau 2017
Garden Legacy by Mary Louise Mossy Christovich and Roulhac Bunkley Toledano, with a foreword by S. Frederick Starr 2016	A Life in Jazz by Danny Barker, edited by Alyn Shipton, with introduction by Gwen Thompkins 2016	Tennessee Williams Annual Review 2016 Number 15 2016
Henry Howard Louisiana's Architect Robert S. Brantley with Victor McGee 2015	The Katrina Decade Images of an Altered City David G. Spielman, photographer 2015	A Fine Body of Men The Orleans Light Horse, Louisiana Cavalry, 1861–1865 by Donald Peter Moriarty II 2014
French Baroque Music of New Orleans Spiritual Songs from the Ursuline Convent (1736) edited by Alfred E. Lemmon 2014	Creole World Photographs of New Orleans and the Latin Caribbean Sphere by Richard Sexton 2014	Tennessee Williams Annual Review 2014 Number 14 2014
A Company Man The Remarkable French-Atlantic Voyage of a Clerk for the Company of the Indies edited and with an introduction by Erin M. Greenwald; translated by Teri F. Chalmers 2013	Perique Photographs by Charles Martin with essays by Mary Ann Sternberg and John H. Lawrence 2012	Tennessee Williams Annual Review 2012 Number 13 2012
Ernie K-Doe The R&B Emperor of New Orleans by Ben Sandmel, with a foreword by Peter Guralnick 2012	Tennessee Williams Annual Review 2011 Number 12 2011	Furnishing Louisiana Creole and Acadian Furniture, 1735–1835 by Jack D. Holden, H. Parrott Bacot, and Cybèle T. Gontar, with Brian J. Costello and Francis J. Puig; edited by Jessica Dorman and Sarah R. Doerries 2010
Drawn to Life Al Hirschfeld and the Theater of Tennessee Williams by Mark Cave and David Leopold 2010	Tennessee Williams Annual Review 2010 Number 11 2010	Unfinished Blues Memories of a New Orleans Music Man by Harold R. Battiste Jr. with Karen Celestan 2010
Tennessee Williams Annual Review 2009 Number 10 2009	In the Spirit The Photography of Michael P. Smith from The Historic New Orleans Collection with essays by Jason Berry, Dan Cameron, John H. Lawrence, and Jude Solomon 2009	Josephine Crawford An Artist’s Vision by Louise C. Hoffman 2009
A Closer Look The Antebellum Photographs of Jay Dearborn Edwards, 1858–1861 2008	Birds of a Feather Wildfowl Carving in Southeast Louisiana 2007	Vaudechamp in New Orleans by William Keyse Rudolph 2007
Tennessee Williams Annual Review 2007 Number 9 2007	In Search of Julien Hudson Free Artist of Color in Pre–Civil War New Orleans edited and with an introduction by Erin M. Greenwald, with essays by William Keyse Rudolph and Patricia Brady 2007	Printmaking in New Orleans 2006
Common Routes St. Domingue • Louisiana 2006	Tennessee Williams Annual Review 2006 Number 8 2006	Tennessee Williams Annual Review 2005 Number 7 2005
From Louis XIV to Louis Armstrong A Cultural Tapestry 2004	A British Eyewitness at the Battle of New Orleans The Memoir of Royal Navy Admiral Robert Aitchison, 1808–1827 edited by Gene A. Smith 2004	George L. Viavant Artist of the Hunt George E. Jordan 2003
Charting Louisiana Five Hundred Years of Maps edited by Alfred E. Lemmon, John T. Magill, and Jason Wiese; consulting editor, John R. Hébert 2003	Jazz Scrapbook Bill Russell and Some Highly Musical Friends 1998	Haunter of Ruins The Photography of Clarence John Laughlin 1997
Complementary Visions of Louisiana Art The Laura Simon Nelson Collection at The Historic New Orleans Collection essays by William H. Gerdts, George E. Jordan, and Judith H. Bonner 1996	Encyclopædia of New Orleans Artists: 1718–1918 1987	Southern Travels Journal of John H. B. Latrobe, 1834 edited and with an introduction by Samuel Wilson Jr., F.A.I.A. 1986
Nelly Custis Lewis’s Housekeeping Book 1982	Crescent City Silver 1980	Vicksburg Southern City Under Siege, William Lovelace Foster’s Letter Describing the Defense and Surrender of the Confederate Fortress on the Mississippi Edited by Kenneth Trist Urquhart 1980