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• Investigation of the Performance of the New Orleans Flood Protection Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005 (final report; 2 volumes, with appendices; 2006), by Independent Levee Investigation Team, contrib. by Raymond Bolton Seed
  • PDF files at Berkeley
  • PDF files with commentary at usgs.gov

• The Failure of the New Orleans Levee System During Hurricane Katrina (final report, with supplementary documents; 2006), by Team Louisiana, contrib. by Ivor Ll. Van Heerden (PDF files at louisiana.gov)
• Investigation of the Performance of the New Orleans Flood Protection Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005 (final report; 2 volumes, with appendices; 2006), by Independent Levee Investigation Team, contrib. by Raymond Bolton Seed
  • PDF files at Berkeley
  • PDF files with commentary at usgs.gov

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• Investigation of the Performance of the New Orleans Flood Protection Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005 (final report; 2 volumes, with appendices; 2006), by Independent Levee Investigation Team, contrib. by Raymond Bolton Seed
  • PDF files at Berkeley
  • PDF files with commentary at usgs.gov

• Closely Spaced Piles as a Breakwater (Berkeley: University of California, Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory, Wave Research Projects, 1961), by Robert L. Wiegel (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Caddo Indians of Louisiana (Louisiana Archaeological Survey and Antiquities Commission Anthropological Study #2; 1978), by Clarence H. Webb and Hiram F. Gregory (Gutenberg text)
• Archaeology and Ceramics at the Marksville Site (University of Michigan Anthropological Papers #56; 1974), by Alan Toth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Louisiana: Embracing an Authentic and Comprehensive Account of the Chief Events in the History of the State, a Special Sketch of Every Parish and a Record of the Lives of Many of the Most Worthy and Illustrious Families and Individuals (2 volumes; Chicago: Goodspeed Pub. Co., 1892) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (biographical edition, 3 volumes; Century Historical Assn., 1914), ed. by Alcée Fortier
  • Volume I (A-K): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (L-Z): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Biographies): multiple formats at archive.org

• Louisiana As It Is (New Orleans: "Eureka" Press, 1876), by Dan'l Dennett (page images at MOA)
• The Navigator: Containing Directions for Navigating the Monongahela, Allegheny, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers (9th edition; Pittsburgh: Cramer, Spear and Eichbaum, 1817), by Zadok Cramer (page images at Missouri)

• The Octoroon: A Play in Four Acts (Dick's London acting edition), by Dion Boucicault (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Octoroon, or, Life in Louisiana: A Play in Five Acts (American edition), by Dion Boucicault (Gutenberg text)

• Louisiana As It Is (New Orleans: "Eureka" Press, 1876), by Dan'l Dennett (page images at MOA)

• Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (biographical edition, 3 volumes; Century Historical Assn., 1914), ed. by Alcée Fortier
  • Volume I (A-K): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (L-Z): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Biographies): multiple formats at archive.org

• Princess of Wands (included on the Unto the Breach Baen CD image; c2006), by John Ringo
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 190 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 190 MB
• Bonaventure: A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana (New York: International Assoc. of Newspapers and Authors, 1901), by George Washington Cable
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML, and Librivox audio
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Louisiana (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1880), by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Madame Delphine (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1881), by George Washington Cable (Gutenberg text)
• The Master's House: A Tale of Southern Life (New York: T. L. McElrath and Co., 1854), by Thomas Bangs Thorpe (HTML and page images at Virginia)
• Owned and Disowned, or, The Chattel Child: A Tale of Southern Life (New York: H. Dayton, 1860), by Van Buren Denslow (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Man in the Cane (New York: Vantage Press, c1956), by Mentis Carrere (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bayou Folk, by Kate Chopin (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Balcony Stories, by Grace Elizabeth King (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Chita: A Memory of Last Island, by Lafcadio Hearn (Gutenberg text)
• Maum Guinea, and Her Plantation "Children": or, Holiday-Week on a Louisiana Estate (New York and London: Beadle and Co., c1861), by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monsieur Motte, by Grace Elizabeth King (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Week With the American Slaves (previously published as "Maum Guinea, and Her Plantation Children"; London: Beadle and Co., 1863), by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Profane History of Louisiana: From Bienville to Huey P. Long (c1935), by Victor Volero (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Louisiana: Embracing an Authentic and Comprehensive Account of the Chief Events in the History of the State, a Special Sketch of Every Parish and a Record of the Lives of Many of the Most Worthy and Illustrious Families and Individuals (2 volumes; Chicago: Goodspeed Pub. Co., 1892) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lake Pontchartrain (Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1946), by Walter Adolphe Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Winning of the West (presidential edition, 4 volumes), by Theodore Roosevelt
  • Volume One: From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776
  • Volume Two: From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783
  • Volume Three: The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790
  • Volume Four: Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807
• The Winning of the West (4 volumes; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1889-1898), by Theodore Roosevelt
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Louisiana Imprints, 1768-1810: In Supplement to the Bibliography in "Early Printing in New Orleans" (Heartman's Historical Series #62; Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1942), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Pony Rider Boys in Louisiana: or, Following the Game Trails in the Canebrake (Philadelphia: H. Altemus Co., c1924), by Frank Gee Patchin (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Elsie in the South (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1899), by Martha Finley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Lost Child (Boston: Putnam and Hunt, Pierce and Williams, and Wait, Greene and Co., 1830), by Timothy Flint (HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org)

• Creole Voices: Poems in French by Free Men of Color, First Published in 1845 (poems in French, commentary in English and French; Washington: Associated Publishers, 1945), ed. by Edward Maceo Coleman and Armand Lanusse, contrib. by Henry Carrington Lancaster (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Awakening Community (New York: Macmillan, 1932), by Mary Mims and Georgia Williams Moritz, contrib. by Charles W. Pipkin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Diary of a Refugee, ed. by Frances Hewitt Fearn, illust. by Rosalie Urquhart (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Old Times in Dixie Land: A Southern Matron's Memories, by Caroline E. Merrick (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Social Life in Old New Orleans, Being Recollections of My Girlhood, by Eliza Ripley (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• New Orleans City Guide (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1938), by Federal Writers' Project (New Orleans, La.)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Message from the President of the United States, Communicating Discoveries Made in Exploring the Missouri, Red River, and Washita, by Captains Lewis and Clark, Doctor Sibley, and Mr. Dunbar, With a Statistical Account of the Countries Adjacent (New York: Printed by Hopkins and Seymour, 1806), by Thomas Jefferson (Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org)

• Lake Pontchartrain (Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1946), by Walter Adolphe Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)

• The White League Conspiracy Against Free Government (1875), by Hugh J. Campbell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Address of the Hon. George C. H. Kernion at the Sixtieth Anniversary Celebration of the Fourteenth of September, 1874 During the Memorial Services Held at the Foot of Canal Street, September 14th, 1934 (1934), by George Campbell Huchet de Kernion (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Battle of Liberty Place: The Overthrow of Carpet-Bag Rule in New Orleans, September 14, 1874 (New Orleans: Pelican Pub. Co., c1955), by Stuart Omer Landry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• L'Union (French language African American newspaper published in New Orleans) (partial serial archives)

• Louisiana As It Is (New Orleans: "Eureka" Press, 1876), by Dan'l Dennett (page images at MOA)
• Mr. Greeley's Letters From Texas and the Lower Mississippi: To Which are Added His Address to the Farmers of Texas, and His Speech on His Return to New York, June 12, 1871, by Horace Greeley (page images at MOA)

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