Archaeology
St. Peter Street Cemetery
Thousands of New Orleans’s eighteenth-century residents are interred at the site of the St. Peter Street Cemetery in the French Quarter.
Thousands of New Orleans’s eighteenth-century residents are interred at the site of the St. Peter Street Cemetery in the French Quarter.
Poverty Point in Louisiana, one of the most significant archaeological sites in in the world, dates to 3,500 years and represents the largest, most complex settlement of its kind in North America.
This entry covers the Plaquemine culture in the Lower Mississippi River Valley during the Mississippi period, 1200 to 1700 CE
The Mississippian culture spanned from roughly 1050 to 1700 CE
Touro Synagogue was designed by Emile Weil in 1907.
Samuel Wilson Jr., an architect and preservationist, is often referred to as the "Dean of Historic Preservation" in New Orleans.
The original St. Francis Chapel of Point Coupee, was one of the first parish churches in Louisiana.
Renowned Chicago architect Louis Henry Sullivan designed only one building in Louisiana, Union Station in New Orleans.
Artist Shirley Rabé Masinter has gained considerable attention for her rich oil and watercolor depictions of the gritty streets of Louisiana's inner-city neighborhoods, cemeteries, and landscapes.
New Orleans photographer Eugene Delcroix's work ranges from studio portraiture to scenes of murky cypress swamps and French Quarter ironwork.
Jennifer Ellerbe is a photographer and artist who has found her visual poetry in the dark bayous and shadows along the back roads and endlessly flat landscape of Louisiana.
George Dunbar has been a major figure in New Orleans contemporary art for more than five decades.
A round, braided cake consumed during the Carnival season across Louisiana, especially in New Orleans.
Fred Carter Jr. was an eclectic master guitarist who played on many important recordings.
Francois Seignouret, a financially successful businessman and investor, became known as one of the greatest cabinetmakers in New Orleans, though there is no evidence that he ever made furniture with his own hands.
Enslaved people in Louisiana’s cities were engaged in virtually every labor role, from domestic service to dentistry.
The last known epidemic of yellow fever in the United States occurred in Louisiana in 1905. Due to the intensity and frequency of these epidemics, it was often referred to as the "saffron scourge."
Making landfall in Cameron Parish on September 24, 2005, Hurricane Rita was the fourth-most-intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded.
A rainy weekend in August 2016 unexpectedly left behind more than three times the amount of rain dropped by Hurricane Katrina, damaging 146,000 homes in fifty-six of Louisiana’s sixty-four parishes.
Located along the Mississippi River in southeast Louisiana, Cancer Alley is home to the highest concentration of heavy industry in the United States, with residents reporting high rates of cancer, heart disease, respiratory illnesses, and autoimmune disease.
A native of the Atchafalaya Basin, master boat builder Raymond Sedatol constructed traditional watercraft such as pirogues and rowing skiffs in the manner of his Cajun ancestors.
Declared locally extinct in 1963, the brown pelican population rebounded in the state due to efforts by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
Mardi Gras in New Orleans is celebrated by costumed revelers, krewes, floats and flambeaux, parades, and masked balls.
Self-taught artist Herbert Singleton created dramatic scenes of the rough New Orleans environment into which he was born, using found objects such as salvaged doors, driftwood, and discarded furniture.
Traditionally served on Mondays in New Orleans, red beans and rice is an economical dish that has become a staple throughout Louisiana and the Gulf Coast.
Freeman & Harris Café was a Black-owned restaurant that served as a pillar of Black social, cultural, and political life in Shreveport.
Natchitoches’s savory hand pies are filled with a mixture of ground pork and beef in a seasoned gravy.
Although okra is consumed throughout the South, it is predominantly associated with South Louisiana, where it is used as a thickener for gumbo.
The Great Raft was a thousand-year-old logjam in the Red River that prevented transportation downriver to New Orleans.
The Neutral Strip existed outside the governance of either the United States or Spain until 1821.
The Natchitoches settlement, founded in 1714, is the oldest in the Louisiana Territory.
The Fontainebleau State Park bears the name of Bernard de Marigny's sugar plantation, which formerly occupied this site and was itself named after the estate of the French king Francois I.
Henry Clay Warmoth was the first governor of Louisiana under Radical Reconstruction.
John M. Parker, who served as governor of Louisiana between 1920 and 1924, was a passionate advocate of political reform movements and good government initiatives.
Bavarian immigrant Michael Hahn served as the first Union governor of Louisiana for one year during the Civil War.
Louisiana Governor Sam Jones promised an honest government following the corruption scandals surrounding the Long administrations.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal brought jobs and resources to Louisiana during the Great Depression.
As a member of the Confederate States of America, Louisiana provided soldiers who fought outside the state.
An oil drilling operation at Lake Peigneur accidentally punctured a salt dome, creating a sinkhole that swallowed barges and caused the Delcambre Canal to flow backwards.
During World War II, Allied commanders sent more than twenty thousand prisoners of war to camps in Louisiana.
Everette Maddox was a poet known for his powers of wit and observation which he used to great effect in his works.
Swamps have a unique place in the literature, film and folklore of Louisiana.
New Orleans has been the subject of literature from the colonial period to the present day.
Louisiana women have written about life in the state since before the Civil War, presenting their views of its unique society and landscape.
New Orleans pianist and singer Antoine "Fats" Domino is revered as a founding father of rock & roll, along with Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis.
Accordionist Stanley Dural, Jr., was zydeco's most commercially successful performer and an unofficial ambassador of the musical genre and Creole culture. Better known as "Buckwheat Zydeco," Dural helped introduce traditional Creole music to the mainstream.
“Punch” Miller, also known as “Kid Punch,” was a New Orleans traditional jazz, blues, and brass band trumpeter and vocalist.
Dave Oxley was a traditional jazz and early rhythm and blues drummer from New Orleans.
Caddo people began to inhabit the Red River valley approximately 2,500 years ago.
While Louisiana began as a French colony and its dominant culture remained Creole French well into the nineteenth century, Anglo-Americans began to form a significant minority in region the late colonial period.
The Jena Band of Choctaw Indians is one of four Louisiana tribes recognized by the federal government and one of fifteen recognized by the state.
Indigenous people were enslaved alongside enslaved African people as domestic and agricultural laborers, guides, interpreters, hunters, sexual companions, and wives in colonial Louisiana.
Held on the Saturday before Easter Sunday, this women-led vigil includes counterclockwise percussive foot movement and call-and-response singing.
Archbishop Joseph Rummel was among the first religious leaders in Louisiana to proclaim the immorality of racism and ordered the desegregation of Catholic schools in New Orleans.
Mother Mary Hyacinth led nine Daughters of the Cross from France to central Louisiana in 1855 to open a convent and several schools.
White gospel music, also known as Southern gospel, represents a widespread aspect of US culture.
The United States’ entry into World War II spurred Louisiana’s recovery from the economic doldrums of the Great Depression.
For a state experiencing land loss at an alarming rate, coastal restoration has become an urgent need.
Flint-Goodridge Hospital opened in 1896 to serve New Orleans’s Black community and provide medical training for Black nurses and physicians at a time when other hospitals denied services to Black people.
The gradual loss of Louisiana’s coastal wetlands is a slow-moving disaster largely set in motion by a series of human interventions in natural processes.
For nearly fifty years, legendary boxing trainer Whitey Esnault trained both neighborhood children and world champions in his French Quarter gym.
Sired by Secretariat and owned by Ronnie Lamarque and Louis Roussel III, Risen Star was one of the most successful racehorses ever to come out of Louisiana.
Roland Hymel was an archery champion at Loyola University who also won a contest to name the New Orleans Saints football franchise.
Rodney Milburn was born in Opelousas and competed successfully at Southern University in Baton Rouge before becoming the world’s best high hurdler in the early 1970s.
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