Selected Talks from the Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Conf - A Joint Proj of The Historic New Orleans Collection/Louisiana Historical Assoc

This DVD package captures the 2003 Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Conference held in New Orleans.

Filled with stimulating presentations, this production is a valuable addition to historians' collections.

Featured highlights include Joseph Ellis's keynote address, "Jefferson and the Purchase"; John R.

Hebert's reflections on The Collection's Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps; Peter H.

Wood on "African Americans in the Purchase Territory"; Light T.

Cummins on "Spanish- and English-Speaking Peoples in Louisiana before the Purchase"; closing remarks by John Boles; and selections from the conference's concert, "A Tribute to Louisiana's Musical Heritage."