Paper Monuments, a public history project aimed to highlight the diverse history of New Orleans, created a poster on the Irish immigrant experience in New Orleans working on the New Basin Canal, labor activism, and disease.

ID: 6312 ~ Source: Langston Allston and Laura D. Kelley, Paper Monuments: Irish Canal Workers, 2019, The Historic New Orleans Collection, Permanent Collection, http://hnoc.minisisinc.com/thnoc/catalog/1/300561.

This file appears in: Streets on the Table Episode 5: Charles McKenna

This file appears in: Streets on the Table Episode 5: Charles McKenna

Streets on the Table Episode 5: Charles McKenna

By Public history graduate students at the University of New Orleans

In 2019, the New Orleans City Council launched a city-wide effort to change the names of streets honoring white supremacists. While the city implemented its renaming efforts, a clear need for an…