Episode 150: Addition (Patreon)

History can be easy to brush aside or paint over, giving us the illusion of control. But just because we can’t see the past doesn’t mean it’s not there, active and powerful, working behind the scenes to remind us of our tragedy and pain.

Research by Taylor Hagerdorn.

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Further Reading  

1. “Artwork hidden under Picasso painting revealed by x-ray,” The Guardian, Feb 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/17/artwork-hidden-under-picasso-painting-revealed-by-x-ray.
2. Adam King, “Mississippian Period: Overview,” Georgia Encyclopedia, 8 June 2017, https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/mississippian-period-overview.
3. “Bourbon Orleans Hotel,” Bourbon Orleans Hotel, https://www.bourbonorleans.com/bourbon-orleans-hotel-history.
4. “Bourbon Orleans, New Orleans, LA,” Haunted Rooms, https://www.hauntedrooms.com/louisiana/new-orleans/haunted-places/haunted-hotels/bourbon-orleans.
5. “Can I Go Inside the LaLaurie Mansion?,” Ghost City Tours, https://ghostcitytours.com/new-orleans/haunted-places/lalaurie-mansion/tour-inside-lalaurie-mansion.
6. Carolyn Morrow Long, Madame Lalaurie, Mistress of the Haunted House (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2015), p. 272. 
7. “Mistress of the Haunted House,” 64 Parishes, https://64parishes.org/mistress-haunted-house.
8. Cindy Ermus, “The Good Friday Fire of 1788 in Spanish Colonial New Orleans,” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, Vol. 54 No. 3 (Summer 2013): 292-331.
9. “Misrecognized: Looking at Images of Black Suffering and Death,” PhD diss., Duke University, 2008. https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/10161/707/D_Baker_Courtney_a_200808.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y.
10. “The Duelling Oaks,” Duelling Oaks, https://www.duellingoaks.com.
11. Fred R. Darkis, Jr., “Madame Lalaurie of New Orleans,” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association Vol. 23, No. 4 (Autumn, 1982), pp. 383-399. 
12. “Four real New Orleans legends that put ghost stories to shame,” The Historic New Orleans Collection, 15 October 2018, https://www.hnoc.org/publications/first-draft/four-real-new-orleans-legends-put-ghost-stories-shame.
13. George W. Cable, Strange True Stories of Louisiana (Project Gutenberg, 2004), p. 346.
14. “The Ghosts of Le Petit Theatre,” Ghost City Tours, https://ghostcitytours.com/new-orleans/haunted-places/le-petit-theatre.
15. Grace Elizabeth King, Creole Families of New Orleans (New York: Macmillan, 1921), p. 465.
16. “The Most Haunted Places in the United States,” National Geographic, 22 October 2018, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/travel-interests/tips-and-advice/the-most-haunted-places-in-the-united-states.
17. Harriet Martineau, Retrospect of Western Travel in Three Vols. (London: Saunders and Otley, 1838), pp. 120-160.
18. “Haunted Bourbon Orleans,” Haunted Hocking, https://www.hauntedhocking.com/Bourbon_Orleans_Haunted_New_Orleans.htm.
19. “The Haunted Bourbon Orleans Hotel,” Ghost City Tours, https://ghostcitytours.com/new-orleans/haunted-places/haunted-hotels/bourbon-orleans-hotel.
20. “The Haunted LaLaurie Mansion,” Ghost City Tours, https://ghostcitytours.com/new-orleans/haunted-places/lalaurie-mansion.
21. “Indigenous Tribes of New Orleans & Louisiana,” American Library Association, 13 April 2018, http://www.ala.org/aboutala/offices/nola-tribes.
22. “Ghost At New Orleans’ Secret Horror Chamber,” Skeptical Inquirer, 23 November 2016, https://skepticalinquirer.org/newsletter/ghosts-at-new-orleans-secret-horror-chamber.
23. “Vintage photos of Le Petit Theatre: 99 years later, a new vision for the French Quarter gem,” 3 September 2015, https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/arts/article_627b30d9-ee30-5f95-bfbd-50cc326a2f2e.html.
24. “La Madame et la Mademoiselle: Creole Women in Louisiana, 1718-1865,” Master’s thesis, Louisiana State University, May 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20110807152536/http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04042005-171447/unrestricted/Morlas_thesis.pdf.
25. “The Sinister Story Behind This Popular New Orleans Park Will Give You Chills,” Only In Your State, 6 September 2017, https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/louisiana/new-orleans/sinister-park-new-orleans.
26. “Dueling Oak,” New Orleans Historical, https://neworleanshistorical.org/items/show/109.
27. “LaLaurie Mansion,” Atlas Obscura, https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lalaurie-mansion.
28. “The Lalaurie Mansion: New Orleans’ House of Horrors,” NOLA Ghosts, 11 May 2018, https://nolaghosts.com/lalaurie-mansion.
29. “Louisiana’s Traditional Cultures: An Overview,” Folklife in Louisiana, originally published 1997, updated online to reflect new information, http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/Maidas_Essay/main_introduction_onepage.html#tab2.
30. “Marie Delphine Lalaurie,” Murderpedia, https://murderpedia.org/female.L/l/lalaurie-delphine.htm.
31. Michael Democker, “Haunted NOLA: Duels for ‘Pride and Honor’ Left Behind Hundreds of Ghosts at Duelling Oaks in City Park,” 29 October 2019, https://nola.verylocal.com/haunted-nola-duels-for-pride-and-honor-left-behind-hundreds-of-ghosts-at-duelling-oaks-in-city-park/89807.
32. “New Orleans’ LaLaurie House Has Gruesome Past,” Forbes, 23 October 2013, https://www.forbes.com/sites/zillow/2013/10/23/new-orleans-lalaurie-house-has-gruesome-past/#597299c9df48.
33. “The History,” Bourbon Orleans Hotel, https://www.bourbonorleans.com/the-hotel/history.
34. “New Evidence -- Jean Blanque,” Hancock County Historical Society, 3 May 2010, http://www.hancockcountyhistoricalsociety.com/history/new-evidence---jean-blanque.
35. “The Burden of Louis Congo and the Evolution of Savagery in Colonial Louisiana,” in Discipline and the Other Body: Correction, Corporeality, Colonialism, edited by Steven Pierce and Anupama Rao, 61-89 (North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2006).
36. “A Voudoo Tree: Haunted Sycamore of Congo Square,” Louisiana Digital Library, 1 August 1891, https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/state-lwp%3A5157.