Call for Contributors
KnowLA, the Online Encyclopedia of Louisiana History and Culture
The editors of KnowLA seek contributors for a new online encyclopedia of
Louisiana history and culture. Sponsored by the Louisiana Endowment for
the Humanities (LEH), KnowLA will be a comprehensive, dynamic online
reference on the peoples, places, cultures, events, and institutions of
Louisiana. The site will include entries with images, streaming audio and
video files, as well as interactive timelines integrated into the texts.
While we will eventually include entries on a wide variety of topics, we
are currently seeking writers for the entries listed below. Entries will
vary in length from short (up to 500 words) to medium (up to 1,000
words) to long (up to 1,500 words). Overview entries will, in most cases
be between 2,000 and 4,000 words in length, and are intended as general
introductions to the topic.
Small stipends are available and entries will be signed. More information
about the project, including our writers’ guidelines, can be seen on our
web page: www.knowla.org.
Preference will be given to scholars and advanced graduate students,
preferably with publications on the topic.
Please keep in mind that this in only a preliminary list of high priority
entries. Many entries have already been assigned and many more are yet to
come. Any suggestions you’d like to make are welcome.
If you are interested in writing an entry on the topics listed below,
please contact Joyce Miller, Associate Editor, KnowLA, Louisiana Endowment
for the Humanities, 938 Lafayette St., Suite 300, New Orleans, LA 70113;
miller@leh.org
KnowLA Entries Still Needed
(all entries are to focus on the topic in Louisiana)
Art
African American art in LA
Native American art
Public art
Louisiana women artists
Architectural Art (murals, friezes, etc.)
Decorative Arts
Printmaking (engraving)
Sculpture
Statues/Memorials
Natchitoches Art Colony
Images of Louisiana in Art
Bultman, Fritz
Dureau, George
History
Overview Entries:
Bourbon Louisiana, 1877-1924
Late 20th-century Louisiana, 1960-1999
Medium to Long Entries:
Battle of New Orleans
Neutral Strip
Sharecropping/Peonage
Anti-Secessionism/Unionism in LA
Louisiana Women in the Civil War and Reconstruction
Women in antebellum Louisiana
“Head and Master” Law
Marital/Divorce Law
“Right to Work” Laws
Vietnam War in LA
Louisiana and World War I
Prohibition/Temperance
Compromise of 1877
Anti-Longism
Louisiana Lottery
Industrialization
Legalized Gambling
Organized Labor
Native Americans in 20th- and 21st- century Louisiana
Native American Tribes:
Atakapa Tribe
Cherokee Tribe
Chickasaw Tribe
Taensa Tribe
Tunica Tribe
Literature
Literature by Creoles
Creoles in Literature
“Local Color” Fiction
Children’s literature (in Louisiana)
Louisiana Poet Laureates
Cookbooks (in Louisiana)
Drama (in Louisiana)
Nature Writing (in Louisiana)
Poetry (in Louisiana)
Slave narratives (in Louisiana)
Images of Louisiana in literature
Brooks, Cleanth
Grau, Shirley Ann
Poydras, Julian
Rice, Anne
Scott, Evelyn
Music
Cajun Dancing
Native American musical traditions
Buckwheat Zydeco
Chavis, Boozoo
Dural, Stanley and Buckwheat Zydeco
Guy, George “Buddy”
Henry, Clarence “Frogman”
Johnson, Bunk
Marsalis Family
Toussaint, Allen
