A diverse array of informative, entertaining, and interesting discussions on a variety of topics- from the Civil War in the Florida Parishes to Serial Killers and the Geography of Natural Disasters.

• 74 Days a Nation, Sam Hyde
• 1927 Flood to Katrina, Michael Kurtz, Teaching American History Series
• A Conversation with Valerie Martin, Valerie Martin
• A Reading, Olympia Vernon
• A Wilderness So Immense, John Kulka
• African-American Holidays, Ron Traylor
• Alan Nolan Considered: Robert E. Lee, Charles Roland, Civil War Symposium (2003)
• Amazing Place, This New Orleans, Roberts Batson
• An Evening with Rick Bragg, Rick Bragg
• An Insider's Guide to Publishing, Thomas Keith, Valerie Martin
• Arts in Louisiana, Mitch Landrieu
• Average is Just Not Good Enough, Ken Carte, "Coach Carter"
• Bashing Maggie: Margaret Thatcher, Bill Robison
• Betty Werlein Carter & The Hammond Daily Courier, Rebekah Ray
• Big Muddy River of Stars, Alison Pelegrin
• Bill Evans, A Retrospective, Ron Nethercutt
• Black and White: Florida Parish Newspapers in the 1920's, Reginald Span, Teaching American History Series
• Blackball, Randy Sanders, Teaching American History Series
• Brains vs. Brawn: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, & Scientific Baseball, Babe Ruth vs. Ty Cobb, Randy Sanders
• Cholera and Spanish Influenza, Keith Finley, Teaching American History Series
• Climate, Geography, Southern History: The Influence of Non-Human Factors, John Boles
• Confederate Naval Operations, Gene Still
• Crazy Like a Fox: Earl Long, Michael Kurtz
• Creative Writing Workshop, Laura Joh Rowland
• Creoles in Louisiana, Thiomas Fick
• Dead Man Walking, Sister Helen Prejean
• Different Mountain, Different Moon, Charles Elliott
• Earl K. Long, Michael Kurtz
• Earth Day, Paul Keddy and Don Schwab
• Environmental Challenges in Early Louisiana, Charles Elliott
• Female Assassins and Suicide Bombers, Margaret Gonzalez-Perez
• Femicide, Tara Mann
• Food and Community, "Queen of Creole Cuisine", Leah Chase
• Geography of Natural Disasters, Gerald McNeil and Molly McGraw, Teaching American History Series
• Getting the Dirt Out: Female Investigative Reporting in the 20th Century, Carole Madere
• Globalization of Women, Margaret Gonzales-Perez
• Halloween, Bill Robison
• Hellhound on My Trail: The Life, Legend & Legacy of Robert Johnson, Bill Robison
• High Noon Fiction, Jack Bedell, Norman German
• High Noon Fiction, Alison Pelegrin & Bev Marshall
• His Blue Period, Valerie Martin
• Hodding Carter, Hodding Carter
• Holidays: Civic Holidays, Ron Traylor
• Holidays: Christmas and Easter, Bill Robison
• How We Live: Past, Present, Roy J. Quezaire, Jr.
• Hurricanes and Manchac Ghost Towns, Roman Heleniak
• Into a Cauldron of Fire: Louisiana Troops at Sharpesburg, Ted Alexander, Civil War Symposium (2003)
• Issues Affecting Jefferson Davis, Stephen Davis, Civil War Symposium (2004)
• Italians in Louisiana, Anthony Margavio
• James Livingston Business Ethics Lecture (2003), U.S. Treasurer Rosario Marin
• James Livingston Business Ethics Lecture (2005), John Dimling, Chairman, Nielsen Media
• James Livingston Business Ethics Lecture (2006), La. State Treasurer John N. Kennedy
• James Livingston Business Ethics Lecture (2008), "Ethics in Insurance", C. Allen Bradley
• Jefferson's America, Jefferson's Louisiana, Gene Smith, Teaching American History Series
• Lindbergh Kidnapping, Michael Kurtz
• Louisiana Women, Diane Winston
• Louisiana Women Authors in Fact & Fiction, Patricia Brady and Beverly Marshall
• Louisiana Writers:Reading the South, Bev Marshall, Alison Pelegrin
• Louisiana's British West Florida, Robin Fabel, Teaching American History Series
• Louisiana's Coastal Ecology, Richard Condrey
• Mann's Foray: A Grierson-Type Raid That Failed, James Hollingsworth, Civil War Symposium (2005)
• Maria Montessori, Women's History Month 2008
• Mary Reilly: A Community Read Discussion, Natasha Whitton
• Monsters at the Movies, Bill Robison
• Mr. Jefferson's Women, Diane Winston
• Music & Literature: The Story of Louisiana, La. Sec. of State Jay Dardenne
• Native American Women, John Kukla
• Newspapers in Florida Parishes during 1920s-1940s: Black & White, Reginald Spann
• Newswriting, Annenberg Series
• Nostradamus, Bill Robison
• One Dead in Attic, Chris Rose
• Our Environmental Destiny, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
• Paul is Dead, Joe Burns
• Pioneers in Art, Amy Morris, Irene Nero
• Prosperity and Peril in the Piney Woods, Reginald Span
• Raising their Voices: Women Composers of the French Revolution, Katherine Kolb
• Reconstruction in the Cane Fields, John Rodrigue
• Regionalism Post-Katrina (Parts One and Two)
• Robert E. Lee's Gambling Habits, Harry Laver
• Segregation's Friends, Keith Finley, Teaching American History Series
• Serial Killers, Michael Kurtz
• Solar Fusion, Dan McCarthy
• Sportfishing with Cameron, Norman German
• Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements and Public Policy, Paul Paskoff
• Stem Cell Research, Pete Petrakis and Mary White
• Swamp Survival, Roman Heleniak and Al Dranguet
• Tennessee Wiliams: A Scholarly Panel, Robert Bray, Thomas Keith & Annette Saddik
• The Confederate Defeat, Sam Hyde, Civil War Symposium (2006)
• The Confederate Home Front, Charles Roland, Civil War Symposium (2006)
• The Day the Music Died, Joe Burns
• The History of Frankenstein, Bill Robison
• The Legacy of Holocaust Survivors: One Artist’s Journey, Dorit Pittman
• The Perfect Storm, John Barry
• The Real Queen Elizabeth I, Bill Robison
• The State of Women in Louisiana, La. Representative Diane Winston
• Those Naughty Women of Storyville, Juliette H. O'Connor
• Vampires, Werewolves, Witches, and Wizards, Bill Robison
• Who Killed JFK?, Michael Kurtz
• Women and War, Margaret Gonzales-Perez
• Women and the Holocaust, Monika Flaschka
• Women in Politics, La. State Senator Julie Quinn
• Women in Science, Mary White
• Woman of Auschwitz, Judith Fai-Podlipnik
• Women: Nationally, Locally, and Politically, Diane Winston
• Women's Style of Communication: Can We Talk?, Karen Fontenot
• Worse Than Slavery, Sam Hyde, Teaching American History Series
• Yellow Fever Epidemics, Sam Hyde, Teaching American History Series