Essays include: "The Expulsion of the Acadians in a Broader Context" by John Mack Faragher (Yale University); "The Acadian Refugees in France" by Jean-Franois Mouhot (Les Courmettes, France); "The Environmental Context: Bayou Teche as the Acadians Found It" by Shane Bernard (McIlhenny Company); "The Initial Acadian Settlement: A New Look at its Location in the Attakapas" by Donald J. Arceneaux (independent scholar); "Finding Nouvelle Acadie: Lost Colonies,Collective Memory, and the New Acadia Project" by Mark Rees (University of Louisiana at Lafayette); "Indians, Settlers, and Slaves on a Colonial Frontier: The Acadians among Other Peoples" by Daniel J. Usner (Vanderbilt University)
