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Etudes Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec, Re-Constructing and Celebrating the Louisiana Purchase in New Orleans L'auteur s'est intéressé aux formes de célébrations/commémorations du bicentennaire de l'Achat de la Louisiane (1803) suite à un séjour de deux ans à l'Université de Tulane. Chercheur au Deep South Regional Humanities Center, il a participé sous la direction du Professeur Sylvia Frey à la création d'un CD-ROM (Louisiana State University, 2003) retraçant les mécanismes historiques, économiques, sociaux et culturels ayant précédés, accompagnés et suivis l'Achat de la Louisiane. Ce texte est issu d'une communication au colloque «Stemming the Mississippi» organisée par l'Institut Charles V de l'Université Paris 7. Il s'agit de la première étape d'un travail en cours sur la commémoration. Ancien élève de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay Saint-Cloud, Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec prépare, sous la direction de Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, une thèse sur les esclaves marrons en Louisiane, en Caroline du Sud et en Jamaïque entre 1800 et 1815. Some remarks on web sources on the Louisiana Purchase celebration Part of the effort to “publish” and “display” the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase has fallen, naturally, into the hands of webmasters. The number of websites that refer directly or indirectly to the Louisiana Purchase has grown dramatically in the past couple of years. Most, however, have a tendency to replicate each other in terms of contents and images. Very few websites adopt a truly historical approach, but repeat the same hackneyed themes from one page to the next. Many are just calendars of events and share an emphasis on tourism and education. Most webpages originate from the state of Louisiana per se and rarely extent beyond Oklahoma, Arkansas or Missouri. In the other states carved out of the Louisiana Purchase, webmasters are busy commemorating, first and foremost, the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition The first introductory section sets into perspective the websites of three markedly different New Orleans institutions ranging from the locally celebrated fried chicken fast food chain to the opera house of New Orleans, not forgetting in between, the zoo, the aquarium and the Imax theatre of the Audubon Institute. The selected websites do not tell us much about the Louisiana Purchase but they are symbolic in terms of their audience. At one end of the spectrum, one finds a fast food chain frequented by the African American community and lower-class and lower middle class whites. Set right in the middle of the Treme neighborhood, an African American neighborhood, the opera house attracts a white middle class audience. The Louisiana Purchase opera that took place at the beginning of October brought together all New Orleans socialites and candidates for governorship, an event which was duly recorded in the social section of the New Orleans Times Picayune. In between Popeyes Chicken and the New Orleans Opera House, one finds the cross-section audience of the Audubon Institute, a local, national and international audience. The second section of the typology is made of websites that reflect academic reconstructions of the Louisiana Purchase with a particular emphasis on the use of primary sources. The third section moves to a different medium – television, public and private, regional and national. The fourth section is a selection of websites from public institutions – at federal and state levels. The fifth section is a selection of articles and reviews from the online archives of The New Orleans Times Picayune, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. The last section is a selection of websites taken from “Greater French Louisiana.” I have ommitted the website of the Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Commission, which lists events, attractions and addresses all over the State of Louisiana. 1. From Popeyes Chicken to the Pontalba Opera: The Louisiana Purchase in New Orleans Popular Culture 1.1. Popeyes – Chicken and Biscuits: Celebrating our Heritage http://www.popeyes.com/LAP03.html 1.2. New Orleans Opera Association
1.3. Audubon Nature Institute
2. Academic Reconstructions of the Louisiana Purchase 2.1. New Orleans Public Library
2.2. Deep South Regional Humanities Center at Tulane University
2.3. Historic New Orleans Collection
2.4. Louisiana State Museum
2.5. Louisiana State University – Archives
2.6. New Orleans Museum of Art
3. The Louisiana Purchase and Mass Media : Popular Adaptations 3.1. Louisiana Public Broadcasting
3.2. WDSU – The New Orleans Channel
3.3. ABC 26 / WGNO
3.4. The History Channel http://store.aetv.com/html/product/index.jhtml?id=43718 3.5. New Orleans Online http://www.neworleansonline.com/neworleans/lapurchase/ 4. Public Memory of the Louisiana Purchase 4.1. U.S. Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2003/cb03-ff07SE.html 4.2. U. S. Mint http://usmint.gov/mint_programs/50sq_program/states/index.cfm?state=la 4.3. Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism
4.4. Louisiana State University – The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities – Council of Greater Baton Rouge
4.5. Louisiana Old State Capitol – The Louisiana Purchase Exhibit http://www.sec.state.la.us/purchase/purchase-index.htm 4.6. Louisiana State Parks http://www.crt.state.la.us/crt/parks/LAPurchEvents.html 4.7. Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve http://www.nps.gov/jela/Louisiana%20Purchase.htm 4.8. Office of Louisiana Senator Mary L. Labdrieu
4.9. The Library of Congress
5. The Louisiana Purchase – Newspaper Re-Constructions 5.1. The Times Picayune Archives http://www.nola.com
5.2. The Washington Post Archives
5.3. The New York Times Archives
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