by Acadien Acadian Memorial | May 18, 2023 | Essays
by Carl A. Brasseaux Louisiana’s first large groups of Acadian immigrants dubbed their adopted homeland New Acadia, thereby giving voice to the unspoken purpose of the group’s migration to that strange land. Notoriously stubborn, the exiles refused to...
by Acadien Acadian Memorial | May 18, 2023 | Essays
By Carl A. Brasseaux The Acadian diaspora has been the subject of intense scrutiny by both popular and scholarly writers since the publication of Longfellow’s Evangeline in 1847. These writers have focused their attention upon the continuing debate over the...
