New Orleans

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Nicholas Roosevelt’s fire canoe transformed the Mississippi.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Could he have beaten Bobby Fischer?</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">With astonishing tenacity, the people of the rich river-mouth region of the Mississippi have remained what and where they are through two and a half centuries</span> </p>

<p>But was Louis Moreau Gottschalk America’s first musical genius or simply the purveyor of sentimental claptrap?</p>

<p><span class="deck">75 years ago this month, a not-especially-good band cut a record that transformed our culture.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A BOLD NEW KIND OF COLLEGE COURSE BRINGS the student directly to the past, non-stop, overnight, in squalor and glory, for weeks on end.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">American jazz musicians once enjoyed a freedom and respect in France’s capital that they could never win at home. Landmarks of that era still abound.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">What do you need to build the only national museum dedicated to World War II? The same things we needed to fight the war it commemorates: faith, passion, perseverance, and a huge amount of money.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">THE NEGLECTED EPIC OF ANDREW JACKSON HIGGINS</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Can the disasters that befell other cities help save this one?</span></p>

<p>What African Americans could not achieve in the courtroom they did in the dance hall, with the invention of a rebellious, and wholly American, new musical artform. </p>