This internship report describes the student's experiences while working for Louisiana state Museum in New Orleans, one of the largest and oldest historical complexes in the United states. Its mission is to collect, preserve and present the materials which document Louisiana's cultural identity. Included in the Museum holdings are eight historic Vieux Carre properties, four of which function as museums, and an extensive permanent collection (over three million pieces) of fine, decorative, folk and textile arts; military and inventive artifacts; manuscripts; prints; maps; and photographs illustrating the culture and history of Louisiana.

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This study presents in-depth analyses of folktales from the oral tradition of French and Creole Louisiana. The region’s folklore is a unique tradition formed from the confluence of diverse elements following a number of significant population movements to Louisiana. The French and Spanish colonization, the slave trade, the Acadian deportation, and the Saint-Domingue Revolution are discussed in some detail. Through comparative analyses of a corpus of Louisiana folktales and their analogues from Acadia, France, and West Africa, my research demonstrates how motifs, characters, and moral values have been adapted over time to the sociocultural context of Louisiana. Paul Zumthor’s theory of false reiterability is employed to explain these mutations in oral narrative. I suggest that several instances of cultural trauma – slavery, the Grand dérangement, and linguistic inferiority resulting from English-only education - resulted in a cultural renegotiation among Louisiana’s French and Creole communities that is reflected in the region’s oral tradition. The three principal chapters each examine an important figure of Louisiana’s folklore: the animal trickster, the fool (Jean-le-Sot), and the Master Thief. A general tendency of increased prestige associated with the trickster figure can be observed in Louisiana’s folklore. Moreover, Mikhail Bakhtin’s notion of the carnivalesque is used to explain the subversion of established power structure accomplished by the trickster. By framing Louisiana as a space of cultural exchange and creolization, this study places the region in a larger context of the francophone world, including Africa, the Caribbean, and the French Atlantic. / 1 / Nathan J. Rabalais

This dissertation examines the mindset of establishment Louisiana during Huey Long"'s domination of state politics from 1928-1935. As such, it engages the period using a tool other than the Huey Long biography. It utilizes especially manuscript collections, including the T. Harry Williams oral interviews of anti-Longs, the newspaper record, and the secondary literature of the Long period. The character, rhetoric, and actions of several of the most articulate and important establishment anti-Longs are treated, including J.Y. Sanders, Sr. & Jr., Cecil Morgan, Mason Spencer, Hodding and Betty Carter, Hilda Phelps Hammond, and W.D. Robinson. The work makes the following major arguments. Firstly, that anti-Longs intensely although ineffectively opposed the Long program from 1928 and that their touted alternative program of reform was a smokescreen to make deficit-spending to fund infrastructure development institutionally impossible. Secondly, that the 1929 impeachment of Huey Long was caused by establishment opposition to a Long proposed oil tax and that although it shifted establishment rhetoric from a criticism of Long"'s ends to a criticism of his means, the shift was marked by moral and ethical hypocrisy. Thirdly, that the attacks on Long"'s personality which characterized anti-Long rhetoric were rooted in class contempt and alienated the balance of the electorate from anti-Longism. Fourthly, that the comparisons of Long to Hitler and to Mussolini do not stand up to scrutiny but did reflect a deep-seated establishment feeling of entitlement to power and of being bullied and much-abused by Long. Fifthly, that examining the establishment"'s historical memory of the events of the late nineteenth century, especially Reconstruction and Redemption, offers a productive line of enquiry into understanding their mentality, the meaning they attached to the term democracy, and their willingness to consider the legitimacy of political violence. / Alex J McManus

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Louisiana State University, Dept. of Geography and Anthropology, 1954. / Vita. Abstract. HTML version of 1954 doctoral dissertation. Last viewed: 5/8/2008 Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-92).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Michigan, 1923. / Reprinted from the Louisiana Historical Quarterly, April 1924. Bibliography: p. 105-112.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1916. / Vita. Pub. also as Studies in history, economics and public law, ed. by the Faculty of political science of Columbia university, vol. LXXI, no. 1; whole no. 167. Bibliography: p. 464-476.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2009. / Title from title page screen (viewed on Mar. 11, 2010). Thesis advisor: Daniel M. Feller. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America, 1941. / "Doctrinal dissertations in sociology before 1941": p. 179-180.