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Lee Allen Zeno Adds the Groove Glue
Diverse, inventive, rock-solid, and soulful
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“God, don’t let me die before I do something useful.”
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The loss of Shreveport’s C. C. Antoine House highlights a need to protect vulnerable historical sites
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Edwin Edwards, democratic reform, and political confusion in Louisiana’s open election system
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Not Worth the Paper They Were Printed On
Louisiana’s state debt default of 1843
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64 Parishes Publication Party March 9
Celebrating the spring issue in Madisonville
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Monroe Celebrates 64 Parishes
The return of magazine publication parties
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Sports & Recreation
New Orleans Saints
When it was aired, the New Orleans Saints Super Bowl victory in 2010 was the most-watched television broadcast in history, drawing more than 153 million viewers.
Architecture
A. Hays Town
A talented and prolific Louisiana architect, A. Hays Town shaped the residential architecture in mid-to late twentieth-century Louisiana.
History
African Americans in the Civil War
African Americans, both freed and enslaved, played critical roles in Civil War Louisiana.
Literature
Cammie Garrett Henry
Cammie Henry played a central role in Louisiana's artistic and literary communities, as both a patron of the arts and preservationist.
K-12 Resources
8.12 g. Great Flood of 1927
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.
8.11 d. World War I
During World War I, the federal government expanded its power and reach, while social and cultural movements transformed the world in which most Americans, including Louisianans, lived.
4.19 b., d. Woodland Period
People of the Tchefuncte, Marksville, Troyville, and Coles Creek cultures lived in Louisiana during the Woodland period.
8.13 e. New Deal in Louisiana
The effectiveness of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal program in Louisiana was undercut by conflict with US Senator Huey P. Long.
