1.8 f. Tabasco Sauce
This spicy sauce is made in Louisiana and sold around the world.
This spicy sauce is made in Louisiana and sold around the world.
Louisiana’s Cajun music has been influenced by a rich blend of musical traditions.
The Old State Capitol in Baton Rouge is now a museum.
Recipes for this baked dessert can turn stale bread into a delicious treat.
By studying artifacts, archaeologists know that people were in Louisiana at least 13,000 years ago.
People from the Clovis culture and San Patrice culture were some of Louisiana’s earliest inhabitants.
People of the Plaquemine, Caddo, and Mississippian cultures lived in Louisiana between 300 and 800 years ago during a time known as the Mississippi period.
People of the Tchefuncte, Marksville, Troyville, and Coles Creek cultures lived in Louisiana during the Woodland period.
France’s Civil Code of 1804 standardized civil law and became a model legal framework around the world, including in Louisiana.
The Tunica people, skilled traders and entrepreneurs who engaged with French colonists in the eighteenth century, merged with several other historical Louisiana tribes in the twentieth century.
In the eighteenth century Houma people established trade and political relationships with French and Spanish colonists. In the twentieth century Houmas unified their community and successfully struggled for political recognition.
The Code Noir provided rules for how colonists treated enslaved people as well as how people of European and African ancestry interacted in French colonial Louisiana.
“Carpetbagger” and “scalawag” were derogatory terms used to describe white Republicans from the North or southern-born radicals during Reconstruction.
In 1873 white Louisianans responded to Reconstruction policies with violence, resulting in a massacre that claimed as many as 150 lives.
As many as five hundred enslaved people participated in an uprising against slaveholders in the Territory of Orleans.
Federal forces occupied New Orleans, a strategic city at the mouth of the Mississippi River, from 1862 until the end of Reconstruction.
The Great Flood of 1927 inundated more than ten thousand square miles across twenty Louisiana parishes and left tens of thousands of Louisianans without shelter.
Corrupt democratic politician Leander Perez Sr., a staunch segregationist, served as a district judge, district attorney, and president of the Plaquemines Parish Commission Council.
The Standard Oil Company of Louisiana transformed Baton Rouge but found a political opponent in Huey P. Long.
The Second World War allowed for economic growth and increased opportunities for women and African Americans in Louisiana.
The Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana is the largest of four federally recognized tribal governments in Louisiana.
The French Civil Code of 1804 standardized civil law in France, becoming a model legal framework for jurisdictions around the world, including Louisiana.
This distinct form of government exists in more than half of Louisiana’s parishes.
The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe is one of only four American Indian groups in Louisiana recognized by the federal government.
Celebrating Louisiana Musical Legends in the Classroom
Celebrating Louisiana Musical Legends in the Classroom
Celebrating Louisiana Musical Legends in the Classroom
Celebrating Louisiana Musical Legends in the Classroom
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