History
Domestic Slave Trade
The domestic slave trade, central to the economic growth of Louisiana, destroyed enslaved people’s families, wreaked havoc in their communities, and killed many, despite their attempts to resist.
The domestic slave trade, central to the economic growth of Louisiana, destroyed enslaved people’s families, wreaked havoc in their communities, and killed many, despite their attempts to resist.
Don Juan Filhiol's most noted accomplishments are associated with the European settlement of the Ouachita River Valley and include the founding of the Poste d'Ouachita and Fort Miro, which later became Monroe, Louisiana.
Earl Kemp Long served three nonconsecutive terms as Louisiana governor.
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.
Photographer Elemore Morgan, Sr., made an important visual record of mid-twentieth-century folkways, rural life, indigenous architecture, and landscapes in 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 West (later known as the Company of the Indies), which then held a charter for the development of the Louisiana colony.
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.
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