{"id":2478,"date":"2018-01-29T12:31:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T18:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/?p=2478"},"modified":"2020-05-02T12:33:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T17:33:29","slug":"january-23-chapter-meeting-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/?p=2478","title":{"rendered":"January 23 Chapter Meeting Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members enjoyed a fascinating program\u00a0on Tulane\u2019s Louisiana Research Collection as a resource for authors on January 23.\u00a0 The program was presented by Lee Miller, head of the LaRC.<\/p>\n<p>He provided information on how to use archives in literary and historical research, specifically the materials offered at the LaRC.\u00a0 The collection encompasses almost four linear miles of archival documents, books, maps, and other resources central to the history and culture of Louisiana &#8212; from colonial era documents to the LaRC\u2019s renowned Civil War collection, as well as a celebrated Carnival Collection and extensive holdings on Louisiana arts and literature featuring materials from Mark Twain, John Kennedy Toole, and William Faulkner. The LaRC also holds extensive materials on Louisiana politics, women, gender, religion, and New Orleans food culture.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more about the Louisiana Research Collection at: <a href=\"http:\/\/larc.tulane.edu\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/larc.tulane.edu&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1516202722111000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGrV7KL8S2ELxQ0K1rX2IivWH15Ww\">http:\/\/larc.tulane.edu<\/a> or find the LaRC on social media:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Louisiana-Research-Collection-LaRC\/201504833209563\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Louisiana-Research-Collection-LaRC\/201504833209563&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1516202722111000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGgytAGuyijfkhJliOa3r3bW_8VAw\">Like LaRC on Facebook<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/LA_Research\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/twitter.com\/LA_Research&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1516202722111000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGkevDicI3ml_-Xc9E4I4vI3hMuAw\">Twitter<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/manuscriptstulane.blogspot.com\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/manuscriptstulane.blogspot.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1516202722111000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHhBzAdnnXj_7iCBOG9DQmHGJ9AVg\">Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1465 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LARC-2-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LARC-2-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LARC-2.jpg 732w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1466 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LARC-3-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LARC-3-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LARC-3.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1467 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LARC-4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LARC-4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LARC-4-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LARC-4.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1468 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LARC-5-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"358\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LARC-5-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LARC-5.jpg 756w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1469 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LARC-6-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LARC-6-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LARC-6-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LARC-6.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1447 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LA-Research-Collection.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"148\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members enjoyed a fascinating program\u00a0on Tulane\u2019s Louisiana Research Collection as a resource for authors on January 23.\u00a0 The program was presented by Lee Miller, head of the LaRC. He provided information on how to use archives in literary and historical research, specifically the materials offered at the LaRC.\u00a0 The collection encompasses almost four linear miles &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/?p=2478\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-2478","6":"format-standard","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2479,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions\/2479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}