The history of the fort, mission, and settlement of Los Adaes reflects both intercolonial rivalry and cooperation among the Spanish, French, and Native Americans who lived along the border of New Spain and French Louisiana.
This entry explores the history of American Indian life in Louisiana from 11,500 BCE to 1700 CE through the study of prehistoric archaeology.
Dating to the Late Woodland Period, from 400 to 700 CE, the Troyville Culture is named for an archaeological site in Catahoula Parish.
This entry covers the Plaquemine culture in the Lower Mississippi River Valley during the Mississippi period, 1200 to 1700 CE
Louisiana artist and architect Thomas Wharton is best known for the writings and sketches he kept in a daybook.
L'Hermitage Plantation in Darrow, Louisiana, stands as a nearly 200 year-old classical revival style home.
For the first sixty years of its existence, the Hotel Bentley was the social hub of Alexandria.
The geodesic dome was pioneered by architect Buckminster Fuller in the mid-twentieth century, and used in several notable Louisiana landmarks.
David Allen was a walking stick carver from Homer, Louisiana. His work often includes the heads of men, animals, and snakes combined with elements of popular culture.
Allen and Georgie Manuel were a husband-wife team who made traditional costumes of the Cajun courir du Mardi Gras, the celebration of Carnival season in rural South Louisiana.
Elizabeth Catlett served as head of the art department at Dillard University in New Orleans, where she is now an honorary citizen.
An engineer by training, Antoine Simon Le Page du Pratz published a richly illustrated, three-volume, 1,300 page observation of life in early Louisiana, "Historie de La Louisiane."
An unofficial cultural ambassador for Louisiana beginning in the 1970s, Paul Prudhomme was a Cajun chef, restauranteur, author, television star, and entrepreneur.
Freeman & Harris Café was a Black-owned restaurant that served as a pillar of Black social, cultural, and political life in Shreveport.
NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans is one of the largest manufacturing sites in the world.
The oil and gas industry has been a dominant economic engine in Louisiana for well over a century.
In September 1965, Hurricane Betsy, one of the deadliest and costliest storms in US history, made landfall near New Orleans.
Once one of the most productive salt mines in the country, the Belle Isle Salt Mine was the site of numerous deadly accidents.
The 2010 BP spill was one of the worst environmental disasters in US history.
The Grand 16 Theater Shooting was a 2015 mass shooting in Lafayette that left three dead and injured nine, catapulting the city into a national discussion about gun control.
Crawfish boils are a springtime ritual in Louisiana.
The music of Creole fiddler Canray Fontenot cuts across a variety of musical genres: Cajun, zydeco, and blues-waltzes, a unique style combining elements of blues and jazz.
A hallmark of southeastern Indian societies, cane basketry traditions persist in fewer than ten contemporary tribal communities in the southeastern United States, including three in Louisiana.
Since the mid-twentieth century, LGBTQ+ residents of Louisiana have contributed unique traditions to Mardi Gras celebrations.
Natchitoches’s savory hand pies are filled with a mixture of ground pork and beef in a seasoned gravy.
The so-called poor boy (po-boy) sandwich originated from the Martin Brothers' French Market Restaurant and Coffee Stand in New Orleans during the 1929 streetcar strike.
Louisiana’s citrus industry traces its origins to the early 1700s, but the effects of climate change increasingly threaten its long-term viability.
Rooted in nineteenth-century Creole traditions, the réveillon has experienced a modern-day remaking in New Orleans restaurants.
The Neutral Strip existed outside the governance of either the United States or Spain until 1821.
In response to decades of warnings about land loss, Louisiana released its first Coastal Master Plan in 2007.
An American effort to explore the Louisiana Purchase territory was hindered by a log jam on the Red River and two hundred Spanish troops.
The Natchitoches settlement, founded in 1714, is the oldest in the Louisiana Territory.
Democrat Jared Sanders, who served as governor of Louisiana from 1908 until 1912, was the first governor elected under a state law that required gubernatorial candidates to participate in a primary election.
E. Howard McCaleb served as the chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court for one year, from 1971 to 1972.
Martin Behrman was the longest serving mayor in New Orleans history.
The Compromise of 1877 refers to an unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 US presidential election and ended congressional Reconstruction.
Marie Couvent, also known as Marie Justine Cirnaire, was a wealthy free woman of color in New Orleans who donated property for use as a free school.
The rebellion of enslaved people aboard the ship Creole resulted in the self-liberation of more than 120 people.
In 1962 and 1963 white Citizens’ Councils organized “Reverse Freedom Rides,” parodying the Civil Rights Movement’s Freedom Rides by providing one-way tickets for Black Americans to northern and western cities.
This is a complete list of the governors of Louisiana, their terms, and links to biographical entries.
Author and journalist Lafcadio Hearn spent a number of years in New Orleans writing about Creole culture.
Eliza Jane Nicholson was the first woman publisher of a major daily newspaper in the United States. She was also a published poet, writing under the pen name Pearl Rivers.
Clara Solomon is best known for her diary, which chronicles her experiences in New Orleans during the Civil War.
Local color fiction was a literature genre popular with American readers between 1870 and 1900.
New Orleans native Alonzo “Lonnie” Johnson was a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter whose professional career spanned six decades.
Paul Emile Johns is credited with the first performance of a Beethoven piano concerto, in New Orleans in 1819.
Jimmy “Kid” Clayton was a New Orleans trumpet player during the heyday of traditional jazz.
Lil Wayne is one of the best-known rappers from New Orleans, having reached the status of a global celebrity.
The influence of Irish immigrants in New Orleans can still be seen in the Irish Channel neighborhood, St. Patrick's Day celebrations and churches such as St. Alphonsus.
The Jena Band of Choctaw Indians is one of four Louisiana tribes recognized by the federal government and one of fifteen recognized by the state.
The Quapaw Indians, whose four villages were located along the Arkansas River, were military allies and trade partners of colonial Louisianans.
Between 1880 and 1914, New Orleans was a principal port of entry for Italians migrating to the United States.
Catholic Louisianans of Sicilian descent erect altars laden with fresh produce, baked goods, and other foods to honor Saint Joseph.
Several Protestant denominations are present in Louisiana with Southern Baptist and Methodist as the most dominant.
Thousands of New Orleans’s eighteenth-century residents are interred at the site of the St. Peter Street Cemetery in the French Quarter.
Voudou, a synthesis of African religious and magical beliefs with Roman Catholicism, emerged in New Orleans in the 1700s and survives in active congregations today.
Woody Gagliano sounded the alarm on Louisiana’s coastal land loss crisis and worked with his colleagues for decades to remedy the problem.
Louisiana hurricanes have played an essential role in the state’s history from colonization through the present and are as memorable as the places and people they impact.
Flint-Goodridge Hospital opened in 1896 to serve New Orleans’s Black community and provide medical training for Black nurses and physicians at a time when other hospitals denied services to Black people.
During the nineteenth century, cholera epidemics caused tens of thousands of deaths throughout the state of Louisiana.
New Orleans's Linda Tuero was a collegiate and professional tennis champion in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Tyler was the first African American woman to win an Olympic medal.
In 1989, jockey Kent Desormeaux's 598 first place finishes set the record for most wins in a single season.
Tulane alumnus Bobby Brown played professional baseball with the New York Yankees and won four world championships.
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