All Pieces for WWNO

 
Caption: A 19th century map of Nassau, Bahamas., Credit: THE MECHANICAL CURATOR COLLECTION / THE BRITISH LIBRARY
In this episode of TriPod, Laine Kaplan-Levenson discusses the slave revolt on the Brig Creole with Harvard Professor Walter Johnson.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 10:23
Caption: Sale of Estates, Pictures and Slaves in the Rotunda, New Orleans; by William Henry Brooke, engraver; engraving with watercolor from The Slave States of America, vol. 1; London: Fisher and Son, 1842, Credit: THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION
This episode plots points on the map of the domestic slave trade in New Orleans. Producer Laine Kaplan-Levenson visited physical landmarks that bea...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 29, 2016
  • Length: 09:25
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: P. G. T. Beauregard House, Chartres St. 1981.290.32, Credit: THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION
In this episode, producer Laine Kaplan-Levenson explores why upper class Sicilians left Italy in the late 19th Century for New Orleans, why it was ...

  • Added: Feb 29, 2016
  • Length: 09:28
Caption: Rendition of the slave revolt, Colony of Santo Domingo., Credit: THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION
In this episode, Producer Laine Kaplan-Levenson introduces us to a woman whose family fled Haiti under the Duvalier regime.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 29, 2016
  • Length: 09:26
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Union Sulfur Co. operations in Sulfur, La., Credit: THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION
In this episode, Producer Laine Kaplan-Levenson looks at the arrival of Croatian people, and the split communities between the bayou and the city.

  • Added: Feb 29, 2016
  • Length: 09:25
Caption: Man with a rake and drying shrimp, Credit: THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION
This episode of TriPod tells the story of one man’s family business, part of the Chinese immigrant community, that helped build New Orleans.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 29, 2016
  • Length: 09:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Veüe et Perspective de la Nouvelle Orleans" (View and Perspective of New Orleans), 1726., Credit: Jean-Pierre Lassus, Centre des archives d'outre-mer, France.
This episode of TriPod is about the founding and early colonization of New Orleans.

  • Added: Feb 29, 2016
  • Length: 11:10
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Well, we’ve made it. Almost. It’s been a long, hot summer this is our last episode as we come up on the tenth anniversary of Katrina. The city is a...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KMUN


  • Added: Aug 23, 2015
  • Length: 24:45
  • Purchases: 2
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Lots of people who visit New Orleans today are surprised to find the city in such good shape. The rebuilding effort has been long, arduous, and lar...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 25:34
  • Purchases: 2
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According to numbers from the US Census and the IRS, 236,970 people left Louisiana between the summer of 2005 and the summer of 2006, mostly becaus...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 27, 2015
  • Length: 23:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Of all the changes New Orleans has seen in the ten years since Katrina, the restructuring of the city's public school system is perhaps the most dr...

Bought by KWMR and WCPN


  • Added: Jul 20, 2015
  • Length: 23:20
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Honduras native Brenda Murphy hosts a daily morning show for the Latino community on Radio Tropical Caliente
According to a study by the Data Center, the Hispanic population of the New Orleans metro area has nearly doubled since the year 2000. Many people ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WCPN


  • Added: Jul 13, 2015
  • Length: 19:36
  • Purchases: 2
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Nearly a quarter of a million people evacuated to Houston from New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, and in 2006 there were still...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WXDU


  • Added: Jul 06, 2015
  • Length: 25:05
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on Katrina: The Debris, getting around New Orleans, during and after the storm.

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: Jun 29, 2015
  • Length: 20:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Katrina evacuee Stasia Davis with her kids and grandkids outside their home in Houston., Credit: Kate Richardson
New Orleans is a family city. Grandparents and grandkids, cousins, aunts and uncles often live in the same house, share the same traditions. When K...

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: Jun 22, 2015
  • Length: 26:53
  • Purchases: 1
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The root of the word “restaurant” is in fact the French verb "restaurer," to restore. And New Orleans restaurateurs, the proprietors, were seen as ...

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  • Added: Jun 13, 2015
  • Length: 19:09
  • Purchases: 1
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The first map for rebuilding New Orleans after the floods included half a dozen ominous totems: Green Dots. To New Orleans native Wendell Pierce, s...

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: Jun 07, 2015
  • Length: 17:47
  • Purchases: 1
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:30 promo with music for Katrina: The Debris, Ep1

  • Added: Jun 02, 2015
  • Length: :30
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New Orleans is a weather town. As hurricane season begins, hear the most emotional federal weather bulletin ever written. Plus, more on how the Nat...

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: Jun 01, 2015
  • Length: 17:53
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Working Coast campers set out fishing on their last day., Credit: Laine Kaplan-Levenson
South Louisiana’s Terrebonne Parish has low unemployment — there are lots of jobs in offshore services. So many that there could be a shortage of l...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2014
  • Length: 04:46