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.
Declared locally extinct in 1963, the brown pelican population rebounded in the state due to efforts by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
Louisiana’s citrus industry traces its origins to the early 1700s, but the effects of climate change increasingly threaten its long-term viability.
Created in the 1930s, Dr. Nut is best remembered as the favorite beverage of Ignatius J. Reilly, the protagonist of John Kennedy Toole’s New Orleans–set novel, Confederacy of Dunces.
Louisiana is home to the earliest Filipino American community in the United States.
One of the most destructive storms in Louisiana history, Hurricane Betsy made landfall on September 9, 1965.
In September 1965, Hurricane Betsy, one of the deadliest and costliest storms in US history, made landfall near New Orleans.
Hurricane Gustav was the first major storm to test New Orleans’s rehabbed defenses after Hurricane Katrina.
Ignace de Lino de Chalmette served as the chief engineer of the Louisiana colony and owner of the Chalmette Plantation.
Musician and woodcarver Irván Pérez spent much of his life advocating the preservation of the cultural traditions of Louisiana's Isleño community.
The traditional songs of the Spanish-speaking Isleños of St. Bernard Parish are known as décimas, traditionally a ten-verse satiric composition set to music.
Louisiana's Isleños descend from Canary Islanders who immigrated to the southeastern part of the state in the late 1700s, when Spain ruled the colony.
One-Year Subscription (4 issues) : $25.00
Two-Year Subscription (8 issues) : $40.00
