this vast river flowing, connecting all these diverse cultures, have the there not be , a notableng city location pivoting those two together? it was a mostly catholic city and a mostly protestant nation. it was a mostly roman civil law society in a mostly english common law nation. it was a french long-lost surveying regin a township and range surveying nation. it was a west indian architecture city and the mostly neoclassical greek revival nation. you have all these different differentiations, but that eventually assimilated and hybridized and affected the rest of the nation in the form of the music and the food as well as the architecture. that is why. >> thank you so much for showing us around today. >> you're staff cities towards travel to new orleans to learn about its rich htory. about new orleans and other stops on our tour at c-span/cities tour. you are watching american history tv all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. world war ii triple ace fighter pilots served to combat tours in europe and flew 116 missions in his 51 mustang. next on american history tv, mr. anderson talks