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New Orleans: Past and Present | A Talk by Jason Berry

Jason Berry is a prize-winning journalist who will be talking about his tenth book, City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300 (UNC Press, 2018), the writing of which was supported by NEH and Guggenheim awards. Berry will show clips of his film on New Orleans as well as advancing a narrative of real life characters who built New Orleans.

Sponsored by the Forum for the Academy and the Public, with support from the History Department, OLLI, and the Literary Journalism Program