64 Parishes

10 Fascinating Facts about the Louisiana Hayride

Shreveport's popular radio show helped further the careers of relative unknowns like Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley

10 Fascinating Facts About the Civil War in Louisiana

A Conversation with Cokie Roberts

In 2015 the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities honored broadcast and print journalist and author Cokie Roberts as Humanist of the Year.

Bobby Jindal

Bobby Jindal, the fifty-fifth governor of Louisiana, served from 2008 to 2016.

James Burton: Defining Rock and Roll Guitar

Legendary guitarist James Burton sits down for a chat with David Johnson

Latinos in Lafayette

In 2015 LEH partnered with libraries, UL Lafayette for series of discussions and film screenings

Marcus Christian

Marcus Christian was a Louisiana writer, folklorist, and historian, known as the author of poems which satirize Jim Crow laws.

Mr. Edwards Goes to Paris: A Conversation with Photographer Philip Gould

Photographer Philip Gould remembers Edwin Edwards' legendary 1984 voyage

Preserving Louisiana’s Southern Forest Heritage

The boom and bust story of the Long Leaf sawmill

Q&A: Clayton Delery-Edwards

Delery wrote The Up Stairs Lounge Arson: Thirty-Two Deaths in a Gay Bar, June 24, 1973, the story behind the most fatal blaze in New Orleans’ history, a deliberately ignited fire that targeted a gay bar in the French Quarter.

Remembering Robert Penn Warren