Tulane University's
Louisiana Research Collection

This weekend's devastating flooding in south Louisiana, to the west of New Orleans, has left at least seven people dead and thousands of homes and businesses damaged.   Today's Times-Picayune leads with the story of residents of Baker, Louisiana, who needed to evacuate their home because of the current flooding.   August 29, 2016, will be the eleventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Tulane University and Howard-Tilton Memorial Library collect historical and creative works relating to Hurricane Katrina.  The library catalog lists 799 items  (subject keyword search for phrase hurricane katrina) across Howard-Tilton stacks, Louisiana Research Collection, Hogan Jazz Archive, Rare Books, Government Documents, Music & Media, Vorhoff Library, Architecture Library, Amistad Research Center, Rudolph Matas Library of the Health Sciences, and through the internet. Archival collections in LaRC which contain items dealing with ...

Along the Gulf Coast, each year we mark August 29 th as another year of progress since the storm, and we remember those who lost their lives, either directly or indirectly, because of the disaster.  Scholarly and popular publications from a variety of sources continue to be published and collected, particularly about the consequences of the disastrous flooding of New Orleans.  August 29, 2013, will be the eighth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Hundreds of books on Katrina are held in the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, many of which have copies in multiple locations (search the catalog from the library’s home page ).  Another way to start finding information on Katrina is to see the research guide to freely accessible online Katrina resources.   Some of the more recent books which are held only in the Louisiana Research Collection include: Hurricane Katrina poetic commemorative / edited by Miriam Chitiga.  PS 595 .H87 H87 2012 LACOLL  ...

August 29, 2012, is the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in southern Louisiana and the Gulf Coast, a time for remembering, paying respects, and learning. The Louisiana Research Collection holds a variety of scientific, historical, visual, and literary publications about the disaster and its effects on the land and people of the region, especially New Orleans.    Hundreds of Katrina books have also been added to the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library main stacks.     Excerpts from three of these literary works published since 2010 appear below. *** from A howling in the wires : an anthology of writing from postdiluvian New Orleans / edited by Sam Jasper and Mark Folse.   New Orleans, LA : Gallatin and Toulouse Press, c2010.  F 379 .N553 A235 2010 cop.3 LACOLL, p. 98-99. Still-traumatic stress Ray “Moose” Jackson here we are again back at the bar, my friend or walking down the jazzclubs who remembers? those first days co...

Carry me home, a journey back to New Orleans, by Mark Folse. Jones Hall Louisiana Research Collection PS3606.O467 C37 2008 multiple copies available In the Louisiana Research Collection, it seems we might consider a book "newer" if it was published after 1899. But for the current purpose, "newer" will mean published within the last few years. Last summer, we presented a very brief selection of our Katrina-related books. Another important and very emotional contribution to the Katrina literature is made by Mark Folse in Carry Me Home, a Journey Back to New Orleans . This is the story, in diary form, of New Orleanian Mark Folse's reaction to learning of the flood's devastation. In 2005, he lived in North Dakota. Carry Me Home describes the surprising process that he and his family went through to move back to New Orleans early in 2006. The text is largely composed of selections of his blog posts in the now-complete Wet Bank Guide , which he frantically start...