Andy Horowitz is associate professor of history at Tulane University. His writing has appeared in the Journal of Southern History, Southern Cultures, Historical Reflections, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, and the New York Times.
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Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans on August 29, 2005, but the decisions that caused the disaster extend across the twentieth century. After the city weathered a major hurricane in 1915, its Sewerage and Water Board believed that developers co... SEE MORE