Government, Politics & Law
Louisiana Constitutions
Louisiana has had ten state constitutions since 1812, with the current governing document dating to 1974.
Bourbon Era
Bourbon Era Index
Business & Industry
Louisiana Film Industry
An early participant in the industrialization of film exhibition, distribution, and production, Louisiana adopted the moniker “Hollywood South” in the early twenty-first century.
Folklife
Louisiana Folktales
Louisiana’s folktales have been influenced by Indigenous peoples and the many cultural and ethnic groups that have immigrated to the state.
Government, Politics & Law
Louisiana Lottery
Beginning in 1868, the Louisiana Lottery operated with much controversy and opposition until 1897.
Government, Politics & Law
Louisiana National Guard Training Center in Pineville (Camp Beauregard)
More than a century of existence makes Pineville’s Camp Beauregard, renamed the Louisiana National Guard Training Center in 2023, one of the oldest training camps in continuous operation in the nation.
Government, Politics & Law
Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola
Founded in the early nineteenth century during a time of radical penal reformation, the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is one of the nation's largest prisons.
Architecture
Louisiana State University Rural Life Museum
The LSU Rural Life Museum is an outdoor complex of southern rural vernacular buildings located in Baton Rouge.
History
Louisiana Women in the Civil Rights Movement
As early as the antebellum era, Louisiana women fought for the rights of African Americans in the abolitionist movement.
Art
Luigi Marie Sotta
Italian painter Luigi Marie Sotta, a skilled and significant artist well versed in French academic practice, worked for at least two seasons in New Orleans.
Art
Luis Graner y Arrufi
Spanish painter Luis Graner y Arrufi lived and worked in New Orleans between 1914 and 1922. The simple, dignified landscapes he created in Louisiana are considered to be some of his best work.
Art
Lula King Saxon
Though remembered for being a talented landscape painter, Lula King Saxon was also a writer, musician, poet, singer, and actress.
History
Lulu White
Lulu White was one of the most notorious and financially successful madams in Storyville, New Orleans's red-light district.
