Ancestral Artistry

Inspiring Shared Purpose

Norman C. Francis is the 2025 Humanist of the Year

A Life Behind the Lens

Pableaux Johnson (1966-2025) is the 2025 Documentary Photographer of the Year

For the Love of Cats and Dogs

Remembering the efforts to rescue and reunite pets with their owners post-Katrina, twenty years later

Book Magic

Jim Davis is this year’s Lifetime Contributions to the Humanities awardee

Celebrating Louisiana's Cajun and Creole Cultures

Festivals Acadiens et Créoles is the 2025 Champion of Culture

Music in the Streets

A Closer Walk: New Orleans Music History, Block by Block is the 2025 Best in Digital Humanities award winner

Arresting History

Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930 by John Bardes is the 2025 Book of the Year

A Light in Donaldsonville

Lt. Michael Brooks Shines as the 2025 Light Up for Literacy Awardee

The Cool Head in the Room

Willie Landry Mount Receives the 2025 Chair’s Award for Institutional Support

The Day of a Thousand Hells

The 1971 EF-5 tornado that struck near Delhi, Louisiana

Friends of the Farmers

A statewide coalition bolsters access to fresh, healthy food by training and funding farmers

Fiddle Around

Gina Forsyth answered the call of the fais-do-do

The River Meanders 

Looking at the oxbow towns of Louisiana

A Link to the Past

Down Home Meats, Inc., has produced a popular brand of smoked sausage in DeSoto Parish since 1982

Leap of Faith

A new exhibition celebrates the growth of New Orleans’s Vietnamese community over the past half century.

Manifest

Northwest Louisiana’s creative incubator

Gateway to Poste de Attakapas

An excerpt from Richard Campanella’s new book Crossroads, Cutoffs, and Confluences (LSU Press)

Summer on the Isle

Sunbathers on the dunes of Grand Isle, photographed by Eugene Delcroix (1943)

Poetry by Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Selected by Louisiana Poet Laureate Alison Pelegrin

Laughably Terrible

Sherwood Anderson’s Dark Laughter is “easy to hate”