Outsider in Ouachita Parish Politics
Magazine, Parish Spotlight, Winter 2023
George B. Hamlet, Monroe’s first Black mayor
George B. Hamlet, Monroe’s first Black mayor
Mary Barnes and the Louisiana Civil Rights Movement
Iranian-born Sara Rastegar curates Living the Unknown
The legacy of Laura Simon Nelson
The Jewish Community Center on St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans. The building was designed by the architectural firm of Curtis and Davis.
This document is a contract between the Company of the Indies and Marie Louise Mariette dated 1727. Marie Louise Mariette was a “Casket Girl,” or a woman brought from France to Louisiana by the Company to marry a colonist.
Union Admiral David Farragut and Commodore Percival Drayton c. 1864.
The Compromise of 1877 refers to an unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 US presidential election and ended congressional Reconstruction.
This 1934 photograph of Angola prisoners, taken by folklorist Alan Lomax, features Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter in the foreground. Imprisoned for attempted homicide, Lead Belly was released later that year.
An architectural rendering of Canal Bank and Trust Company, by Emile Weil.
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