1.8 f. Tabasco Sauce
This spicy sauce is made in Louisiana and sold around the world.
This spicy sauce is made in Louisiana and sold around the world.
The Old State Capitol in Baton Rouge is now a museum.
Beignets are a powdered sugar–covered treat.
This place of religious worship is one of New Orleans’s best-known buildings.
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.
People from the Clovis culture and San Patrice culture were some of Louisiana’s earliest inhabitants.
By studying artifacts, archaeologists know that people were in Louisiana at least 13,000 years ago.
People of the Tchefuncte, Marksville, Troyville, and Coles Creek cultures lived in Louisiana during the Woodland period.
In colonial Louisiana free people of color developed thriving communities and had access to privileges that enslaved people did not.
The era of French control over Louisiana was marked by many challenges, including hurricanes and conflicts with Native American groups like the Natchez.
The Acadians, ancestors of present-day Cajuns, were people of French ancestry who settled in what is now Canada before migrating to Louisiana.
Known today as Isleños, Canary Islanders migrated to southeast Louisiana in the late eighteenth century.
Ancestors of the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians avoided resettlement and remained in Louisiana following the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Thomas Jefferson commissioned the Dunbar-Hunter Expedition to explore and document the lower regions of the Louisiana Territory.
After serving as a Union officer in the Civil War, P. B. S. Pinchback became the first Black governor in the United States.
The election of Abraham Lincoln and threats to slavery’s expansion were two major factors in Louisiana’s decision to leave the Union.
In the late 1800s Americans witnessed a period of rapid industrialization and political transformation that drew some Louisianans to the Populist movement.
Corrupt democratic politician Leander Perez Sr., a staunch segregationist, served as a district judge, district attorney, and president of the Plaquemines Parish Commission Council.
The Federal Art Project and Federal Writers Project helped employ out-of-work artists and writers during the Great Depression.
One of the most destructive storms in Louisiana history, Hurricane Betsy made landfall on September 9, 1965.
The Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana is the largest of four federally recognized tribal governments in Louisiana.
The French Civil Code of 1804 standardized civil law in France, becoming a model legal framework for jurisdictions around the world, including Louisiana.
The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe is one of only four American Indian groups in Louisiana recognized by the federal government.
This distinct form of government exists in more than half of Louisiana’s parishes.
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