Virtually Explore New Orleans
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In New Orleans architecture, it’s the little details that make everything so interesting. Before you start exploring the homes on our oak-lined...
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Always, forever, the city’s music is its beating heart – especially true during Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest and other celebrations. The musical notes of jazz...
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Trying to put your finger on exactly when jazz was born can’t be done. We don’t know when but we do know where: It happened here in New Orleans. In...
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“Don’t you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour—but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands—and who knows what to do with it?”
—Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
“It is not an easy thing to describe one’s first impression of New Orleans; for while it actually resembles no other city upon the face of the earth, yet it recalls vague memories of a hundred cities. . . . I fancy that the power of fascination which New Orleans exercises upon foreigners is due no less to this peculiar characteristic than to the tropical beauty of the city itself.”
—Lafcadio Hearn, “At the Gate of the Tropics” (November 19, 1877)
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Experience beautiful New Orleans in this 4K video tour. The city of New Orleans is located along the Mississippi river in Louisiana. There is lots of...
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New Orleans is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana. With an...
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The walkable Garden District is a historic section of Uptown New Orleans lined with shady oak trees, classic New Orleans architecture, and lots of...
ON-DEMAND WEBINAR
Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans--America’s Creole city? Join Yale Senior Lecturer in History & Associate Director Howard...
READING LIST
View the recommended reading list to explore the culture and history of New Orleans.
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No other city in America keeps its history as vital and accessible as New Orleans. House after house, street after street, indeed entire neighborhoods...
TRAVEL PROGRAM
March 21 - 27, 2023
Faculty:
Jay Gitlin ’71