New Orleans--
An American Pompeii?

Lawrence N. Powell, professor of history, Tulane University
executive director, Tulane/Xavier National Center for the Urban Community
"New Orleans: An American Pompeii?"
Tues., Nov. 29, 2005
3:30 pm
569 Hamilton Hall
UNC Campus

Larry Powell's lecture, "New Orleans: An American Pompeii?", addresses the questions: Whose vision of the future will shape how the city will be rebulit? For whose benefit? How does history influence that vision?

Larry Powell is professor of History at Tulane University and has been the Executive Director of the Tulane/Xavier National Center for the Urban Community since 2000. He is the editor of Reconstructing Louisiana: Volume VI: Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Series in Louisiana History (Lafayette: USL Press, 2002) and the author of Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2000) and with Philip Gould, Louisiana's Capitols: The Power and the Beauty (Lafayette: Galerie Press, 1995). He is co-editor of the 4-volume The Encyclopedia of the Confederacy (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993) and The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series One: Speeches, Debates, and Interviews. Volume One: 1841-1846 (Yale University Press, 1979).