Alfred E. Lemmon is director of the Williams Research Center of The Historic New Orleans Collection. He holds a doctorate in Latin American studies from Tulane University. An authority on French and Spanish colonial cultural history, he has been published in numerous books, encyclopedias, and scholarly journals in the United States, Europe, and Latin America.Light Townsend Cummins is the Guy M. Bryan Professor of History, Emeritus, at Austin College. He holds a doctorate in history from Tulane University. A member of the Texas Institute of Letters and the Philosophical Society of Texas, he is the former State Historian of Texas.Richard Campanella, senior professor of practice at the Tulane School of Architecture, is the author of ten books and over 200 other publications on New Orleans and Louisiana geography, history, architecture, urbanism, culture, and related topics.
