Government, Politics & Law
Battle of Baton Rouge (1779)
Spanish colonial capture of British forts on the Mississippi River during the American Revolutionary War provided significant strategic and symbolic victories.
Spanish colonial capture of British forts on the Mississippi River during the American Revolutionary War provided significant strategic and symbolic victories.
The Battle of Liberty Place, September 14, 1874, effectively brought an end of Reconstruction policies in Louisiana.
The Battle of New Orleans, fought on January 8, 1815, was the culmination of a monthlong series of skirmishes between US and British forces in southern Louisiana; it was the final major engagement of the War of 1812.
Beignets, or pockets of fried dough served with powdered sugar, are an iconic New Orleans treat.
Beignets are a powdered sugar–covered treat.
One of the wealthiest Louisiana residents of his generation, Bernard de Marigny de Mandeville was active in Louisiana politics and lucratively subdivided his New Orleans plantation, creating the neighborhood that still bears his name.
Bernard Docusen started boxing at the age of 12 and won the National Amateur Athletic Union bantamweight title in 1942 at the age of 14.
The first African American chief of the state’s judiciary
Big Freedia is a New Orleans-based performer and international ambassador for bounce music.
Bill Matthews was a New Orleans traditional jazz and brass band trombone player.
Landscape painter Billy Solitario prefers to capture the natural world by painting en plein air, or painting in nature, a style popular among the Impressionists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Tulane alumnus Bobby Brown played professional baseball with the New York Yankees and won four world championships.
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