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Shane K. Bernard

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A Cajun from Lafayette, Louisiana, Shane K. Bernard holds degrees in English and History from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and a doctorate in History from Texas A&M University.

Bernard serves as historian and curator to McIlhenny Company, maker of Tabasco brand products since 1868. He has appeared on the History Channel, CNN, CNBC, the BBC, and NPR, as well as in National Geographic.

Bernard lives in New Iberia, Louisiana.

His website is www.cajunculture.com and his blog is Bayou Teche Dispatches.

Click to hear him discuss his book The Cajuns: Americanization of a People on NPR's "Morning Edition".

Click to hear him discuss the history of Tabasco brand pepper sauce on NPR's "Morning Edition".
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Banned in the Classroom: Notes on the Outlawing of French in Louisiana's Public Schools

"I Will Not Speak French on the School Grounds,"
from an exhibit at the Vermilionville
living history museum, Lafayette, La.

From approximately 1920 to 1960, educators routinely punished children in Louisiana's public school system for speaking French — often those students' primary if not sole language. As I wrote in my book The Cajuns: Americanization of a People (2003):

Some educators helped t

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	The Cajuns: Americanization of a People 4.02 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 1996 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Teche: A History of Louisiana's Most Famous Bayou (America's Third Coast Series) 4.10 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Southern Gothic: New Tales of the South by Jordan M. Scoggins (Editor), Brian Centrone (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Hardy Jones 4.22 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors: A Young Reader's History 4.17 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2013 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues (American Made Music Series) 3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1996 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tabasco: An Illustrated History by Shane K. Bernard (Goodreads Author), Paul C. P. McIlhenny (Foreword) 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Les Cadiens et leurs ancêtres acadiens: l'histoire racontée aux jeunes by Shane K. Bernard (Goodreads Author), Faustine Hillard (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I was disappointed with Groom’s writing: he refers to the start of a battle as the “kickoff” as in football; describes a cannonball hitting a gunboat as “shivering its timbers” (which is indeed the origin of the phrase but, please, pirate talk?); and ...more
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