my mother's family lived in new orleans for 200 years. my father's family are all from charleston and they have been there for 300 years. i lived with my family in charleston a different part of my childhood in new orleans my mother's family remain plain people, clerks, tradesmen, schoolteachers, salesmen, carpenters, nurses. nobody at all of the higher education for 150 years until the 1970s so when my family arrived in new orleans when i was a child of about 10 we moved in with my grandmother into her bungalow which was raised up against the floods that plague new orleans, near tulane university if you know the city and living with my grandmother was a woman named mod, my grandmother's sister, mod lacorn. it was with on to mod that i first learned about our klansman. in the south in many families whether white or black or mixed-race there is often a family historian. on to mod was that person. she was about 75 when i first paid attention, she was a schoolteacher, she was unmarried, never married, she wore hornrimmed glasses and had a cl

shortly after he arrived in new orleans in 1820. after this man married marguerite, he married into a fine creole family who had this plantation on the mississippi river. but he married one of the daughters who was from a branch that was less wealthy than the other branch. and her branch of the family was in decline. so eve and marguerite, they moved into a creole cottage. they had five children. my aunt maude continued the story, they had five children and among them was my grandfather. constant lacore. he was a redeemer. a redemption, as she said. that was after the civil war when the colored people had taken over the state and they were starting businesses. they were acting as though everything was theirs. they were voting. the redemption was after that time they call reconstruction, that awful time. reconstruction was not when the south tried to build itself up again after the war between the states. reconstruction is when they put colored people in seats of power. redemption were the people who resist that. my grandfather const

my family lived in new orleans for 200 years. my father's family are all from charleston and they have been there for 200 years. i lived with my family in charleston for a different part of my childhood. in new orleans my mother's family had been and remained to this day tradesmen, schoolteachers, salesmen, carpenters, nurses, nobody at all with higher education for 150 years until the 1970s. when my family arrived in new orleans when i was a child of 10 we moved in with my grandmother to her bungalow which was raised up against floods the claimed new orleans, at tulane university in the carlson district and living with my grandmother also was a woman named mod, my grandmother at sister. it was with onto mod i first learned about our klansmen. in the south whether they are white or black there is often a family historian. and mod, she was 75 when i first paid attention, she was a schoolteacher, she was unmarried, she wore hornrimmed glasses and a closet of dresses, with longsleeved. let me tell you about our people. our people ca

i am the commander of the army corps of engineers new orleans district. on behalf of my team, thank you for the opportunity to discuss corps response to hurricane ida in my district. it encompasses south louisiana, texas and the west to mississippi in the east. day in and day out, i focus in large part on coastal and climate change issues. louisiana coast is a working coast. do through the significance of its waterways and their benefits to the national economy, including five of the nation's busiest ports, the mississippi river, the busiest waterway in the nation and our economic artery as well as the gulf intracoastal waterway, which is the nation's third busiest waterway, all of which continue to be impacted by golf storms -- gulf storms. the majority of the population lives near the coast. coastal louisiana is near the epicenter of climate change. sea level rise is a major concern for the corps and the state. consequently, my major missions are navigation, coastal and environmental restoration, coastal storm risk management and flood risk management.

when he returns to new orleans yes robert e. lee at his side and they are given a giant party in the french quarter and his family renames a plantation after the battle of compare us one of the ones you really have proven himself that. in the mexican-american war is over this is one of the bright shining lights of the united states army and throughout the 1840s and 18 50's he posted to louisiana. think about that for a minute all you grant people. robert e. lee would send them all over the country. overgaard gets to hang out in louisiana with friends and family and everybody he knows. this has to be one of the most rest jobs any officer had an 18 50's. even then he has no room to complain. in the 18 50's you see a lot of blower guards strengths and weaknesses so let me gives him strength. this man is a superb engineer. he's highly intelligent one of the smartest generals north and south. he fluent in several different languages and also inventor. he is better versed in military history than most of his contemporaries. his own ma

and a new orleans. the home of my mother's family and mothers people have lived in new orleans for about 200 years. i lived in charleston for a different part of my childhood. in new orleans and other family has been school teachers, 150 years into the 1970s. when my family arrived in new orleans, as a child has about ten. moved in with my grandmother and her bungalow raised i've been to flat of new orleans. it was near the university, if you know the city. and living with my grandmother also was my grandmother sisters mod look home. it was worth and mod, and many families whether they're white or black or miss raced, there is a family historian. and was that person among my mothers. she had glasses and dresses. it was a length long sleeve. come here boy, let me tell you about our people. our people came from brittany on the west coast of france. the first was called evil calm, he was a sailor in napoleon's navy. as you will earn school he was involved in war. it was one end of the earth to the other. a

i was in louisiana, new orleans, after katrina. our committee went down there to inspect first-hand the damage that was done. it was shocking. so the $14.5 billion investment is one we all supported, and it worked, as you all said. we're proud of what we were table do to mitigate the hurricane ida. we also recognize that these storms are becoming more frequent and more severe. and that we have a responsibility to deal with the realities of climate change, both in mitigating future pollutants that are eating our greenhouse -- emitting greenhouse gases, as well as adapt to the realities. and your responsibilities on adapting to the realities, i want to touch on briefly. many years ago, we made a decision in maryland to invest in nourishment, because the northeast was becoming more and more severe, and we invested millions of dollars and the result has been billions of dollars of savings. and savings of life. so these types of investments really pay off dramatically. but there's also a change in the risk factors that i'm seeing in our

of engineers in the new orleans district. thank you for the opportunity to discuss the response to hurricane ida in my district area of operation. my area of operation encompasses all of south louisiana from texas in the west to mississippi in the east, day in and day out i focus in large part on coastal and climate change issues. the louisiana coast is a working coast as the state calls it, due to the significance of its activities and waterways, and their benefit to the national economy. these include five of the nation's top busiest ports, the mississippi river is the busiest waterway in the nation and our economic artery, and which is the nation's third busyiest waterway. all of which continue to be impacted by gulf storms. the majority of the state's population lives in the southern half of the state and the coast. coastal louisiana sits at the epicenter of climate change. sea level rise and subsidence coexist as threats for both the corps and the state. consequentially my major missions are navigation, coastal storm ris

projects are currently underway incorporating this type greater new orleans area.now in day 40 of recovery from hurricane ida. i'll close by saying there could not be a better team to handle natural disasters and climate change and the team gathering federal, state and local in louisiana. everyone here knows disaster response is truly a team sport i don't think we could work more cooperatively with the state of louisiana and we are right now. personally expensing to of the longest floodlights in our district, the most active atlantic hurricane season in history last year, the covid pandemic now hurricane ida, i can definitively say this is a highly functional collaborative team that's made the states response report of this nbc disasters, especially ida successful. the same cooperation drives the court investigation and implementation of natural solutions that are in sync with the state 50 billion personal master plan. these include measures from beneficial use of dredged material to restoration, environmental mitigation to the consideration through regulatory prog

army and sends our boys down to new orleans. now you know what's going to happen in new orleans. unfortunately, the news did not travel very fast, and the war had been kind of a disaster from the point of view of the united states. after the city of washington, d.c. was burned and dolley madison had to race out from the dinner table without even getting to eat your dinner as the british burned the presidency mansion, so president madison had only decided to send negotiators to europe to negotiate a peace treaty with great britain. the treaty of ghent ending this war was signed on december 24 in belgium but, of course, what did not get to new orleans that this was happening, and general jackson had his men in in a d defensive position waiting for the british navy and the british soldiers to come. shelnutt plantation just down the river close to the mouth of the mississippi river in new orleans. the british to come and it is the thing that myths are made of, the battle of new orleans. i can still there tennessee ernie ford sings about the battle of new orleans. so the tennessee vol

the battle of new orleans.an still hear tennessee ernie ford singing about the battle of new orleans. so the timothy volunteers, it was a ragtag army. they had some kentucky sharpshooters, you've got some enslaved people. you've got some various other folks from new orleans in the army they held the day. and now the war is over. shooray. we have defeated the british. not once but twice. and the first george washington defeated them in the revolutionary war. the second george washington is andrew jackson. and people here are enthusiastic to know him. he is a national name all of a sudden. and it is this winning the war of 1812 and simultaneously with the coming of the steamboat that is a major turning point in nashville and tennessee history before the civil war. here we have a frontier outpost, hardly a town and winton hill who had been in n the tennessee militia and fought the jackson's, he now invests in the steamboat which had them coming down the mississippi river from pittsburgh all the way fto new orleans

collection, the sacramental records of the catholic church diocese of new orleans, an archive collected and held by the new orleans public library, in court records, criminal records, newspaper archives retain some of the very fragile papers published chronicling the events of the clan. it took 5 years of research with the help of hired research assistants to put together small pieces of narrative content like bits of a mosaic like tiles you can craft into a picture, hundreds of bits of narrative information that i could assemble gradually and painstakingly into narrative content so it was a different research experience and the result is a different story. it is still history but has different routes to it. >> a couple friends were curious about your research assistant and wanted to know how you went about finding a good research assistant. >> i went to a university in new orleans who teaches in the history department and i said do you have any graduate students who would like to earn a little money and spend a few hundred hours in the library? fortunately, one exceptional exceptional

let's start with louisiana and new orleans. what causes them to rank so high and have so many high factors? guest: the actual area in new orleans is below sea level. looking at the elevation perspective, just by pure virtue of the height of the land, it is a substantial risk. the water is going to flow to the lowest point of elevation. when you are below sea level, you are at a much higher risk. with that, eat -- there are a lot of protections built in there. there are a lot of levees and things that will ensure that the area is protected. all of those things are built to what is called a different standard. you can think of it as -- i have a home and the pump that i have can pump a certain amount of water. that water pump will protect me from a certain amount of flooding. the standard can be up to a one into event or a one in five event. but in a certain point, the pump will not be able to pump out enough water for what is coming in. that pump might be built to a one in 20 standard. in new orleans that is the same thing. they

i will say when i was in new orleans i knew nothing about emergency management.ave any sense of anything related to disaster. i was very focused on itself and so one off kind of crazy thing that happened rather than being the product of these decisions even not necessarily connecting that what that would actually look like it. certainly i knew disaster exactly what that path was. >> is that something that has been rewarding are you happy with this or does it get frustrating at times? >> it really is disasters that happen when you see decisions made that's the wrong decision he see destruction that comes with these disasters. it is endlessly frustrating. but at the same time we know what to do to make emergency management better. we know the kind of policy changes. and it really is a matter of getting the policies implemented. in that sense i am hopeful because there are more disasters happening across the country and around the world there were paying more attention to this. i'm hopeful in the near future and how we manage our risk. >> for anyone interested in re

, if you put the capitol new orleans, office of government will be in new orleans and we all know cities are kind of dense bribery and all kinds of nasty things that will corrupt the government so this is a speech somebody gives and he's defending having the capitol new orleans and accusations going on about how often new orleans -- is anybody actually arrived -- i just don't know this portion, ways to tease out things we've been talking about, i ran across this so revealing of this particular place, i put in making a legitimate time americans, not just louisiana but every state and of debating. >> baton rouge was decided upon as a capitol and that still remains the capitol of louisiana but the next topic i want to bring up is the constitutional slavery that's rising in the early 19th century but then secession of southern states and the establishment of the confederacy takes on a brand-new form, debate over the future of slavery in the unitedth states. what we have on display in the goldman foundation collection is a copy of the confederate state constitution which is reaffirming and es

i'm a native new orleans. and i was recently elected this past january as district attorney of orleans parish to up in a system that has been racist and sexist by design. i'm not good to have hey, on the screen, please introduce yourself, travis? yeah, i'm a criminal justice recorder in new orleans for the lens. are non profit investigative newsroom. and i recently produced a documentary along with our sierra fault lines on unit mystery convictions. are we going to got into that in just a moment? but 1st, let me tell you if you, if you're watching light and if you're watching on youtube, use the comment section. that will be many things that you want to ask questions about. you can decide right here at be part of today's show. let us just start with jim crow joyce, jim and i can pack that phrase. what does that mean even? and so after the civil war, more than half of the state of louisiana with black but white louisiana and were afraid of a shift in power. and so they put in a lot of math and a lot of mechanis

the family is that the mantle was made by a man who it served under jackson at the battle of new orleans and that each year he worked on the mantle only on january 8, which is the anniversary of the battle. and for the 25th anniversary he presented it to jackson. so it's been here since 1840. it's moved around the house at different times. we think the dining room is the appropriate place but it was made out of hickory because jackson's nickname was old hickory. but to me the two most significant rooms in the house are jackson's bedroom and is a joint library. to me that's the beating heart of the house. the library was really a political at the center if you will, even though we are what, eight or 900 miles washington. in his retirement years jackson never really one -- wanted to give up being present so his continuing filing off letters to subsequent presidents and to people in congress who support him to make sure they were following through on policies or laws that he had pushed through while he was president. jackson's popularity was so great that if you jackson endorsing due to run

system was put to its first test and it held strong and prevented the catastrophic flooding in new orleans that we saw in 2005 and where we can see that federal investment is in resiliency pace will diffidence. the challenges still remain one of the biggest obstacles with the project as well as in delaware is often on the reimbursements to cover the costs to maintain the projects after they are constructed. but constrained by politics and budget shortfalls can't always recover all the costly communities. the area is strapped for resources and is unable to make investments in the resilience that they desperately needed, and we know that it is real. the stakes cannot be higher including the economy, the homes and people's lives and livelihoods. look at how louisiana fared during the water infrastructure known as the protective much of the city from flooding that the community is in the states were devastated. we might have a photo of that. >> my home state of delaware and from erosion and flooding and wind gusts up to 60 miles per hour. new jersey faced similar and we saw the videos of water

has the new orleans da. jason addressed all jim crow convictions. if not, what's the holdup that we have not we we've, we've developed the civil rights division with our office to go through all of them . we and we're still working through that process because it, it would be a, a compound tragedy. for example, if we had pushed mrs germain hudson into a plea deal to just get him out of jail for a crime, and he did not commit even worse for a crime that never even occurred. so we are reviewing all of these cases, but we're reviewing them for wrongful conviction. and not just assuming that a person was guilty, i went to piggyback on what nick was saying. i am absolutely convinced me a glass, half full glass, half empty. and i am very happy to have a glass and be very happy to be able to build off of the work that promise started . i'm convinced that this work will be catalytic. i think that once the human mind is stretched, it doesn't revert back to its original form or its own way of thinking. and i think we not, not just we in this office, but there

does in the early 18th century and remains in new orleans until the lease and purchase and even then it grows sort of slowly and it's after the war of 1812 that a bunch of people start moving here and if you look at it you remember the names in those exact order. craig wrote a book state-by-state some maybe he can remember the exact order but it's louisiana illinois alabama welcomed into the union so there's end most of those people are moving the vast majority of the population is going after 1814 or 15 because the war of 1812 was taking place the west a lot of it is fighting the british when the british allied as a native rebellion and now what is known as alabama and then there's the british in the northwest and that keeps the population from growing very rapidly at least the white population. suddenly there a couple of battles in canada where the british and tecumseh are defeated and to create. andrew jackson gets into things in the south with the creek war and the battle of new orleans and the indian military power in mississippi gets shattered. the british are out of the pictur

swing pass, alvin kamara, new orleans up 10-7, win 13-10.le now in last place in the nfc west. back in a moment. >>> okay, usually have it in the summer but waited months, pushed back to october to get the alameda county fair running again. bad idea. but one storm not going to keep them down. fair reopened after the rain and wind blew through last night, messing up the carnival area. crews cleaned up and people were back out tonight for fun, rides and elephant ears. organizers prepared to have the fair even with bad weather. >> just amazing to watch everybody, the fair team jump into action. and get everything together. it was such a labor of love but worth it to see everyone's smiling faces right now. >> last time the fair ran was 2019, canceled last year, postponed this summer. enjoy through halloween. one of my favorite activities, did it every year with the girls. >> you love this fair. >> i love the fair at alameda. >> and now the rain is gone, great week ahead, plenty of time. >> you can do halloween there. >> what are elephant ears ag

before coming to the post she covered social issues and crime in new orleans, new jersey and los angeles. she lives in d.c. on capitol hill. welcome. >> thank you. thank you. so, we should probably get started with, if i understood correctly, we can talk a little bit about the book. i want to hear a little bit about how she got to do it. let me do one thing first really quick. nothing to do with the subject, but the craftsmanship in this book is so beautiful. i mean, everything that amy writes is great. i love amy, but look at me, i am not a pageant person. i tried. [laughter] in the end, it totally gripped me. the craftsmanship, everyone is still beautiful. the flow of the story is gripping. you know everything that is happened and yet you are dying to go onto the next chapter. i cannot believe it is her first book. it is just really enjoyable. the craftsmanship is beautiful. bravo on that. more to the point, i love why amy even picked this topic. we all probably watched it as kids. she took it a little bit farther than that. [laughter] >> yeah. i moved to iowa. growing up in the washin