City History: New Orleans

About City History: New Orleans

A podcast exploring the history of New Orleans. Your support helps buy the books needed to make each episode! https://ko-fi.com/cityhistory We'll cover New Orleans's founding, its evolution through French, Spanish and American rule, the battle that saved it in 1815, Congo Square, its dramatic capture and occupation during the Civil War, its unique legacy of race and slavery, how it survived Prohibition, the Depression and hurricanes, Mardi Gras, jazz and the future New Orleans may (or may not) have.

Publisher

Steve Keller

Category

history

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 Apr 2024

Latest episode

23 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

3 of 38 episodes have a transcript.

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   23 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   2.7: The Irish Potato Famine

   Host Ciarán Ó Murchadha explores the devastating Irish Potato Famine and its impact on Irish emigration to New Orleans.

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   21 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   2.6: An Irish Hello

   Host [Host Name] interviews historian Earl F. Niehaus about the arrival of the first Irish immigrants in New Orleans and their early impact.

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   3 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   2.5: The 1832 Cholera Pandemic

   Cholera strikes New Orleans. Ten percent of the city is killed. Reverend Theodore Clapp performs a minister’s duty amidst the horror. We learn about bizarre treatments. Germ theory is not yet a thing. READ MORE: Autobiographical Sketches and Recollections, during athirty-five years' residence in New Orleans by Theodore Clapp The Cholera Years by Charles E. Rosenberg “Nineteenth Century Public Health in New York and NewOrleans: A Comparison” by John Duffy “Cargo, ‘Infection,’ and the Logic of Quarantine in theNineteenth Century” by Davis S. Barnes “Asiatic Cholera in Louisiana, 1832-1873” by Leland A.Langridge Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics, and Plagues editedby Joseph P. Byrne “Outline of the History of Malignant or Asiatic Cholera inNew Orleans, La.” by Joseph Jones “How Yellow Fever Intensified Racial Inequality in19th-Century New Orleans” by Karin Wulf SOUNDS: French Quarter Bourbon walk.wav by volivieri -- https://freesound.org/s/110012/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

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2.7: The Irish Potato Famine

Published 23 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And between the Union and the famine, this happened 17 times. Decades passed. The movement for Catholic emancipation grew. And on the back of a countrywide civil rights campaign in 1829, it finally happened. The breaking point was the election to Parliament of Daniel O'Connell, an Irish Catholic leader who was ineligible according to the law, but who dared the British not to seat him. The British blinked, and they lifted the restrictions on Catholics. And yet at the same time, things moved two steps back. The same year, the British also quintupled the minimum rent amount required for rural Irish to vote. […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

138 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

218 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 47 / 100

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67

Social presence

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YouTube

0

Engagement

67

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