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An Ambassador of Louisiana’s French Music
Michael Doucet is the 2026 Humanist of the Year
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An Ambassador of Louisiana’s French Music
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Back in “the Fun Shop”
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A New Beginning on the Land
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Back in “the Fun Shop”
Two magicians made a Halloween store Shreveport’s secret Gay Pride headquarters
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A New Beginning on the Land
Black farmers & the Louisiana Delta Project
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The “Pink Menace”
Excerpt from Café Lafitte in Exile: Queer New Orleans and the Story of America’s Oldest Gay Bar
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Institute Releases Timeline Resource for Classrooms
What was Louisiana Doing while America was becoming America?
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64 Parishes Wins Multiple 2026 Press Club of New Orleans Awards
Read our winning stories
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64 Parishes Finalist for Multiple 2026 Press Club of New Orleans Awards
64 Parishes Magazine has received four 2026 Excellence in Journalism Award nominations, including for Best Magazine
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64 Parishes Story Finalist for National Award
"King of Olympus" by Robert W. Fieseler received a nomination for a GLAAD Media Award, the most visible & prestigious awards for LGBTQ+ media
Encyclopedia
Disasters
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina’s landfall in Louisiana and the subsequent levee failures resulted in one of the worst disasters in United States history.
Folklife
Crawfish Boils
Crawfish boils are a springtime ritual in Louisiana.
Folklife
Blessings of the Fleet
At Boat Blessings, a Catholic priest blesses a community’s shrimp boats before the start of shrimp season
History
Sophie B. Wright
A New Orleans educator and civic activist who embodied the complexities and racialized limits of white southern Progressivism.
K-12 Resources
8.13 d.-e. Federal Art and Writers Projects
The Federal Art Project and Federal Writers Project helped employ out-of-work artists and writers during the Great Depression.
7.14 e. Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
“Carpetbagger” and “scalawag” were derogatory terms used to describe white Republicans from the North or southern-born radicals during Reconstruction.
6.8 a.-b., 6.9 g.-h. Houma Nation
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.
6.9 h., 6.10 a. Treaty of Fontainebleau
The Treaty of Fontainebleau shifted ownership of western Louisiana and New Orleans from France to Spain during the French and Indian War.
