GenFest 2025 was all about Creating Community. Check out our Housing Authority of New Orleans Collection debut, over 40 participating organizations, and panels/ presentations on the ways in which we create community.
While we love doing programs at NOPL, staff is also happy to venture out and share with other groups as well. Here are a few examples.
Learn about property taxes in Louisiana—including how tax bills are calculated and how rates are set—via BGR’s powerful public data dashboard.
Using research including City Archives records, Bardes reinterprets relations between slavery and prison development in American history.
Join us for The Trail They Blazed featuring civil rights legends in conversation with the Historic New Orleans Collection
Join Wanda Herbert-Romain for a rousing history of McDonogh 35 from its beginning to present day!
Louisiana Landmarks Society’s Executive Director Stacey Pfingsten leads a journey through the history of the Pitot House for its 225th anniversary.
With our inaugural GenFest in 2024, the City Archives brought together southeastern Louisiana genealogical, preservation, historical, and cultural organizations to share their mission and story with festival attendees and each other.
Dispelling the Myth of Black Pantherism With the Louisiana Black Panther Party and Dr. Angela Allen-Bell About the Program Learn about the history and journey
Double Victory Examining the Life of an African American World War II Soldier Presented by Gaynell Brady of Our Mammys About the Program Gaynell Brady
In 1995, archivists Wayne Everard and Irene Wainwright created the New Orleans Public Library’s first website, the beloved www.nutrias.org. In an effort to pay homage to our original web presence, we present to you the City Archives & Special Collections’ blog: Nutrias.
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