Melissa Milliner Daggett

Posted on: Aug 11, 2020 at 2:55 PM

I am delighted to announce that I will present for the Louisiana State Museum and the Friends of the Cabildo on Thursday, October 8 at 6 pm CT. It is free and virtual! Here are the links: This is the website: https://louisianastatemuseum.org/cabildo/event/spiritualism-nineteenth-century-new-orleans-foc-2nd-thursday-lecture

And on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/588905878493893/
I hope to see you virtually in October.

Posted on: Mar 20, 2020 at 10:50 AM

Classmates: Can you post one or two sentences about how you are faring during this Health Crisis? What are you doing? If you are still employed, are you working at home? Are you self-quarantined? What tips do you have for relaxation?

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.