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New Deal in Louisiana
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal brought jobs and resources to Louisiana during the Great Depression.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal brought jobs and resources to Louisiana during the Great Depression.
Attorney Newton Crain Blanchard served as one of Louisiana's representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives (1880-1893), an associate justice in the Louisiana State Supreme Court (1897-1904) and governor of the state (1904-1908).
A segregation-era law voted down in 2018 and deemed unconstitutional in 2020
Norbert Rillieux, a Creole from New Orleans, was an inventor and engineer who designed the multiple-effect evaporation system, a major advancement in the process of sugar refining.
Educator and civil rights leader Norman C. Francis served as president of Xavier University of Louisiana for forty-seven years.
Nottoway is one of the largest antebellum houses in the South and the largest surviving plantation house in Louisiana.
Imported in the early twentieth century for their fur, nutria have exploded into an invasive species that contributes to coastal erosion.
The 800-foot-long allée of live oak trees leading from the river to the columned house constitutes one of the most familiar and evocative images of Louisiana's grand plantation houses.
Oaklawn Manor, on Bayou Teche, was originally owned by Irish-born lawyer Alexander Porter whose ancestry gave this area the name Irish Bend.
The oil and gas industry has been a dominant economic engine in Louisiana for well over a century.
While the oil and gas industry has helped grow Louisiana’s economy, it has also created significant environmental challenges.
Although okra is consumed throughout the South, it is predominantly associated with South Louisiana, where it is used as a thickener for gumbo.
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