Government, Politics & Law

Earl Long
Earl Kemp Long served three nonconsecutive terms as Louisiana governor.
Earl Kemp Long served three nonconsecutive terms as Louisiana governor.
Before the first colonial settlement in 1682, Spanish and French explorers visited the territory that would become Louisiana.
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, several expeditions explored the area that would later become known as Louisiana.
The East Louisiana State Hospital in Jackson was the state's first major permanent facility to provide behavioral healthcare to patients.
Democratic politician Edwin Washington Edwards cast a long shadow over the state's political history.
Ellen Dunn-Burch was a politically engaged philanthropist credited with convincing her husband Oscar J. Dunn to accept the nomination for lieutenant governor of Louisiana, making him the nation’s first Black executive officer.
Louisiana’s first and longest-serving poet laureate, Emma Wilson Emery wrote poetry about romance, nature, and anti-war sentiments.
New Orleans born painter and instructor Ethel Edwards is known for her large-scale murals created during the New Deal era.
The Evangeline League was a minor league baseball circuit in southern and central Louisiana in the first half of the twentieth century.
This entry covers the prehistoric Evans culture during the Middle Archaic Period, 6000–2000 BCE.
Jay Dearborn Edwards was among the earliest photographers to document the city of New Orleans.
Jennifer Ellerbe is a photographer and artist who has found her visual poetry in the dark bayous and shadows along the back roads and endlessly flat landscape of Louisiana.
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