Archaeology
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Native American Mounds
Louisiana boasts some of the most significant Native American earthen monuments in North America and ranks second only to Mississippi in the number of mound sites.
Louisiana boasts some of the most significant Native American earthen monuments in North America and ranks second only to Mississippi in the number of mound sites.
This entry covers prehistoric Poverty Point culture during the Late Archaic period, 2000–800 BCE.
Poverty Point in Louisiana, one of the most significant archaeological sites in in the world, dates to 3,500 years and represents the largest, most complex settlement of its kind in North America.
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.
The French-designed Creole Cottage was a major urban house type in New Orleans during the early 1800s.
During John James Audubon’s four month tenure at Oakley Plantation as tutor to Eliza Pirrie, he produced thirty-two of his bird paintings.
Charity Hospital is a twenty-story Art Deco skyscraper in New Orleans that was built by the Public Works Administration (PWA) between 1936 and 1940.
American architect Benjamin Latrobe designed plans for the US Capitol and other buildings. He came to New Orleans to develop waterworks and wrote about the city in his journal.
Will Henry Stevens was a pioneering advocate of abstract art in the South and a faculty member at Newcomb College in New Orleans for 25 years.
Louisiana artist Simon Gunning is best known for his gritty depictions of the Mississippi River.
Artist Lloyd Hawthorne is best known for his signature painting "Captain Henry Miller Shreve Clearing the Great Raft from the Red River."
The Federal Art Project and Federal Writers Project helped employ out-of-work artists and writers during the Great Depression.
Julien de Lalande Poydras was a Point Coupée Parish plantation owner, banker, political leader, and philanthropist who was a pivotal figure in the early history of Louisiana.
The South’s first Black newspaper, L’Union was an abolitionist journal that promoted full citizenship rights for men of African descent.
During World War II, Higgins Industries designed 92 percent of US Navy vessels, the majority of which were produced by workers in New Orleans.
An integrated labor union violently suppressed by lumber barons.
A rainy weekend in August 2016 unexpectedly left behind more than three times the amount of rain dropped by Hurricane Katrina, damaging 146,000 homes in fifty-six of Louisiana’s sixty-four parishes.
Hurricane Ike’s size and timing was a sobering reminder that Louisiana was underprepared for another storm on the scale of Hurricane Katrina.
Hurricane Camille struck coastal Mississippi in mid-August of 1969, marking the first designated Category 5 storm and one of Louisiana’s most storied tropical weather events.
The Flood of 1927 inundated nearly 26,000 square miles in 170 counties and parishes in seven states, driving an estimated 931,159 people from their homes.
A native of the Atchafalaya Basin, master boat builder Raymond Sedatol constructed traditional watercraft such as pirogues and rowing skiffs in the manner of his Cajun ancestors.
All Saints Day or All Hallows Day is a Catholic tradition honoring the saints and also deceased family members each November 1.
John Avery Lomax was a folklorist and musicologist who, with his son Alan Lomax, made the first recording of the Louisiana blues guitarist Huddie Ledbetter (Lead Belly) at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
Many Louisiana Creole folktales represent a convergence of African and European culture.
Stale loaves of bread get a sweet rebirth in this popular baked dessert.
A round, braided cake consumed during the Carnival season across Louisiana, especially in New Orleans.
One of Louisiana’s renowned dishes, crawfish étouffée is typically comprised of crawfish cooked in its own juices with other seasonings and served over rice.
Crawfish boils are a springtime ritual in Louisiana.
The Great Raft was a thousand-year-old logjam in the Red River that prevented transportation downriver to New Orleans.
Mandeville was founded in 1834, occupying part of what was formerly the sugar plantation of Bernard de Marigny de Mandeville in Louisiana.
A portion of Louisiana was once the western extremity of colonial Florida
The Natchitoches settlement, founded in 1714, is the oldest in the Louisiana Territory.
William B. Hyman served as the chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court from 1865 to 1868.
Approximately forty ethnically and politically distinct North American Indigenous polities located in the Gulf Coast region and lower Mississippi River valley made up les petites nations.
Labor union meeting results in death and arrest of timber workers.
John T. Ludeling served as the chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court from 1868 to 1877.
As early as the antebellum era, Louisiana women fought for the rights of African Americans in the abolitionist movement.
One of the first Black Protestant churches in Louisiana, Wesley Chapel played pivotal roles in social and political movements, from teaching freed Black women to read after the Civil War to engaging in the civil rights movement.
Eleanor McMain was a settlement house worker and progressive reformer in early-twentieth-century New Orleans.
The Christian Woman's Exchange provided rooms for rent, consignment shops for income, and affordable lunches for women of every social class in New Orleans.
Christopher Mason Haile became a journalist and local color writer after he moved to Louisiana.
New Orleans author John Kennedy Toole is known for his posthumously published novel "A Confederacy of Dunces," which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1981.
Wilmer Mills was a poet deeply rooted in the rural Protestant culture of the Plains, an area located between St. Francisville and Baton Rouge.
Charles Bukowski came to New Orleans in 1942 on his first cross-country trips and returned to the city many times over the years.
Byron O. Thomas, known professionally by his stage name Mannie Fresh, is a Grammy-nominated producer and rapper from New Orleans.
J. D. Miller’s recording studios in Crowley are best known for recording South Louisiana musical genres but the studio leaves a mixed legacy, having produced a series of racist songs in the 1960s.
Nellie Lutcher was a renowned singer and pianist from Lake Charles.
William Haney operated Haney’s Big House, a café, bar, and nightclub that showcased Black artists from across the South.
Cajuns are the descendants of Acadian exiles from what are now the maritime provinces of Canada–Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island–who migrated to southern Louisiana.
The term "Creole" has long generated confusion and controversy. The word invites debate because it possesses several meanings, some of which concern the innately sensitive subjects of race and ethnicity.
One of Louisiana's pre-contact indigenous groups
Indigenous people were enslaved alongside enslaved African people as domestic and agricultural laborers, guides, interpreters, hunters, sexual companions, and wives in colonial Louisiana.
Marie Tranchepain was the first Mother Superior of New Orleans’s Ursulines and an early female diarist.
African American Gospel music incorporates elements of both black vernacular and sacred music, including blues, hymnody, spirituals, the folk church, and even popular song.
Established in 1789, St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 is the oldest cemetery in the city of New Orleans.
Henriette Delille was a free Afro-Creole woman who founded sodalities, or religious sororities, for women of African descent that dedicated themselves to the care of the poor, the enslaved, and free people of color.
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.
Woody Gagliano sounded the alarm on Louisiana’s coastal land loss crisis and worked with his colleagues for decades to remedy the problem.
During the nineteenth century, cholera epidemics caused tens of thousands of deaths throughout the state of Louisiana.
For a state experiencing land loss at an alarming rate, coastal restoration has become an urgent need.
Louisiana native Ron Guidry's performance with the New York Yankees in the 1978 season stands decades later as one of the greatest pitching achievements in modern baseball history.
The Evangeline League was a minor league baseball circuit in southern and central Louisiana in the first half of the twentieth century.
Toby Hart brought New Orleans its first professional sports franchise in 1887.
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.
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