Date of Award
Spring 5-2019
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Degree Program
History
Department
History
Major Professor
Atkinson, Connie
Second Advisor
DuPont, Robert
Third Advisor
Chamberlain, Charles
Abstract
Both popular and scholarly observers have portrayed New Orleans as a city both supported and burdened by its image as a diverse cultural other within the American South, historically tolerant of certain sins of the flesh. This image has been used by proponents and critics alike in order to push their respective agenda regarding the Crescent City. This thesis will not seek to discredit this image that is based largely on fact. However, using Prohibition as a case study, this thesis will use letters to the editor to uncover attitudes of New Orleanians in opposition to this reputation to reveal alternative and historically silenced voices of New Orleans, since for instance people of a certain age, gender, or ethnicity were silenced in the halls of government. This paper will reveal the opinions of New Orleanians regarding Prohibition and what these opinions can tell us about New Orleans’s image.
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Recommended Citation
Bourgeois, Ryan P., "‘Habituated to Drunkenness’: Opinions of New Orleanians about Prohibition as Revealed through Letters to the Editor of The Times-Picayune, 1918-1922" (2019). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 2590.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2590
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