Doug Kershaw is a Cajun fiddler, singer, and songwriter who cemented his place in American popular music at the height of the 1960s counter-culture movement with two self-penned hits, "Louisiana Man" and "Diggy Diggy Lo."
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.
Horse racing jockey Eddie Delahoussaye won five Triple Crown races and is a member of the National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame and the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.
Edith Garland Dupre was a leading intellectual, civic, and religious leader in Lafayette in the early twentieth century.
Democratic politician Edwin Washington Edwards cast a long shadow over the state's political history.
Considered among the most important southern writers, Ernest J. Gaines was an award-winning fiction writer whose work often features the region where he grew up: rural and small-town south-central Louisiana.
Essae Culver was a pioneering librarian and educator in an era when library service was beyond the ken of most rural Americans.
From 1727 to 1733 Etienne de Périer governed Louisiana as commandant-general for the Company of the Indies, which held a charter for the development of the Louisiana colony until 1731, and the French Crown.
The Evangeline League was a minor league baseball circuit in southern and central Louisiana in the first half of the twentieth century.
The Farm Security Photography project was a Depression-era program that resulted in images which provided a unique glimpse into the lives of working-class Louisianans as they struggled to survive.
The Federal Art Project and Federal Writers Project helped employ out-of-work artists and writers during the Great Depression.
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