Melissa Milliner Daggett

I will be presenting for the Louisiana Landmarks Society on Wednesday, December 12 at 6 pm. The lecture is free and open to the public. I will sell and sign books after the lecture. I hope to see you there.
Subject: "Lost Nineteenth-Century Architectural Gems: Tracing the Buildings and Faubourgs of Henry Louis Rey, Medium and Activist"
Lecturer: Melissa Daggett, author of Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: The Life and Times of Henry Louis Rey
Place: First Unitarian Universalist Church, 5212 South Claiborne Avenue 70115
Time: Wednesday, December 12, 2018, 6:00 P.M
Bio: Professor Daggett's work has appeared in Louisiana History and Louisiana Cultural Vistas, and she was a speaker for the internationally-known Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival in March 2017 as well as the Organization of American Historians in April 2017 and the Louisiana Book Festival on October 28, 2017 in Baton Rouge. A native of New Orleans, Melissa Daggett is an instructor of United States history at San Jacinto College in Pasadena, Texas

Hi Classmates: I will be presenting and signing my book, "Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: The Life and Times of Henry Louis Rey (UPM, 2017) at Octavia Books on Thursday, June 28 at 6 pm. The book is now out in paperback. I hope to see you there. I will also be at Barnes and Noble at the Metairie store on Saturday, June 30 at 2 pm.

Posted on: Apr 15, 2018 at 7:13 AM

My book, Spiritualism in Nineteenth Century-New Orleans: The Life and Times of Henry Louis Rey (UPM 2017) is now out in paperback on amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com and the University Press of Mississippi website. Octavia Books will have a book event on June 28, 2018 at 6 pm.

Congrats to Liz Williams who is featured in this article about cook books in French for the National Food & Beverage Foundation. https://frenchmorning.com/bibliotheque-a-nouvelle-orleans-veut-vos-livres-de-cuisine-francais/

I will be a featured author at the Louisiana Book Festival on October 28 at 11:00 in House Committee Room 3 at the Louisiana State Capitol. I will present Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: The Life and Times of Henry Louis Rey (UPM 2017). I will also be signing books at the Barnes & Noble Book Tent from 11:45-12:30.

Posted on: Sep 07, 2017 at 8:22 AM

Hi Classmates! I have exciting news about my newly-released book, Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: The Life and Times of Henry Louis Rey (University Press of Mississippi, 2017). I will be a featured author at the Louisiana Book Festival on October 28, 2017 in Baton Rouge http://louisianabookfestival.org/Author_Daggett.html
My book is now in a Kindle edition, and the UPM will published a paperback edition in Spring 2018. I have just started on an exciting historical research topic.

Posted on: Jun 23, 2017 at 10:47 AM

This is the cover for my recently-released book, Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: The Life and Times of Henry Louis Rey (University Press of Mississippi, 2017). I will be presenting at the Jefferson Parish East Bank Regional Library on Thursday, July 6 at 7pm. Books will be available for sale.