No other city in America appreciates and celebrates the African American cultural landscape as does New Orleans. There are seventy-three distinct neighborhoods in the Crescent City. In three adjacent neighborhoods - Faubourg Treme, Faubourg St. Mary and the French Quarter - there are more than fifty statues and historic sites honoring African American contributions to the cultural and civil rights history of New Orleans. In the fifteen neighborhoods mentioned in this book, there are well over one hundred. African American New Orleans is an essential and valuable reference for everyone...

In Crescent City Soldiers, author Kevin J. Bozant surveys over 125 military monuments, memorials, and markers located throughout the greater New Orleans area. This 156-page volume is generously illustrated with 200 photographs and includes the Central Business District, Lakeview Chalmette, Vieux Carre, Metairie, Ninth Ward, Mid-City, Faubourg Treme, and the entire Uptown District. The neighborhood parks, neutral grounds, and historic cemeteries of New Orleans reveal an impressive collection of enduring tributes to local, national, and international military heroes honoring their service and...