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.
Earl Palmer was an innovative, influential drummer in New Orleans and Los Angeles.
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.
Elmer Candy Company, the oldest family-owned chocolate company in the United States, is known for its trio of egg-shaped chocolate confections as well as originating the line of CheeWees savory snacks.
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.
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