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INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ALLIANCE FOR RIGHTS AND DEVELOPMENT

VIE, LIBERT? ET RECHERCHE DU BONHEUR. THE RECEPTION OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE IN LOUISIANA (1776-1803) [OUR PROJECT IS AN INTERACTIVE AND INTERDISCIPLINARY HUMANITIES PROJECT THAT EXPLORES HOW THE FRENCH-SPEAKING COLONISTS OF LOUISIANA, WHO LIVED UNDER SPANISH RULE IN 1776, INTERPRETED AND REACTED TO THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. THE EXHIBITION WILL PRESENT PRIMARY DOCUMENTS HOUSED IN ARCHIVES ACROSS LOUISIANA AND IN FRANCE AND SPAIN TO PAINT A PORTRAIT OF THE COMPLEX WEB OF POLITICS, REPUBLICAN IDEALS, AND GREAT POWER RIVALRY THAT SHAPED LOUISIANA?S INVOLVEMENT IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND LAID THE GROUNDWORK FOR THE BOURGEONING COLONY TO EVENTUALLY JOIN THE UNITED STATES IN 1803.]

?ONE SINGLE PLACE?: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, AND THE SHAPING OF THE EARLY AMERICAN REPUBLIC (1795-1815). [?ONE SINGLE PLACE?: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, AND THE SHAPING OF THE EARLY AMERICAN REPUBLIC (1795-1815) IS A HISTORICAL EXHIBITION THAT CELEBRATES THE FOUNDING OF THE EARLY AMERICAN REPUBLIC AND THE INTEGRATION OF NEW ORLEANS AND THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY INTO THE BOURGEONING COUNTRY. THE GOAL OF THE EXHIBITION IS TO EXPLORE AN OVERLOOKED ASPECT OF THE FORMING OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC, WHICH IS THE RAPID INTEGRATION OF PREVIOUS ?OUTPOSTS? FOUNDED BY FRANCE AND SPAIN INTO A CENTRAL PART OF THE AMERICAN NATION, AND THE EFFECTS THOSE PLACES HAD ON TRANSFORMING THE PERCEPTION OF BEING AMERICAN. THIS EXHIBITION, FEATURING REPRODUCTIONS OF NAVIGATION MAPS, URBAN PLANS, AND ARCHITECTURAL RENDERINGS FROM THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION AND LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WILL BE PRESENTED IN NEW ORLEANS FROM DECEMBER 2025 TO MARCH 2026 TO CELEBRATE THE 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.]