Art
Richard Clague Jr.
Widely credited as the founder of the landscape painting tradition in Louisiana, French-born painter Richard Clague received most of his formal artistic training in Europe.
Civil War Period
Civil War Period Index
Art
Robert Brammer
Itinerant landscape painter Robert Brammer opened a portrait studio in New Orleans in 1842.
Government, Politics & Law
Robert Charles Wickliffe
Democrat Robert Wickliffe, who served as the governor of Louisiana from 1856 until 1860, oversaw the state in the increasingly tumultuous years before the Civil War.
History
Robert Mills Lusher
Confederate official and Reconstruction-era Superintendent of Education for the State of Louisiana
History
Rosalie Courteaux
An important woman leader in the Houma Nation’s history, Rosalie Courteaux defended her people against non-Indian encroachment in the nineteenth century.
Architecture
Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site
Rosedown Plantation in Louisiana is one of the most intact and well-documented examples of a plantation complex in the South.
Literature
Ruth McEnery Stuart
Ruth McEnery Stuart was one of the most prominent Louisiana writers of short stories and poetry in the late nineteenth century.
Foodways
Sagamité
Entry describes sagamité, a range of cornmeal-based soups, stews, and porridges with Native American origins that became a common component of French colonial cuisine.
Business & Industry
Salt Mining
Louisiana is home to 128 identified salt domes, including the coastal dome now known as Avery Island.
Art
Samuel Blessing
Of the hundreds of photographers in New Orleans during the second half of the nineteenth century, Samuel T. Blessing stands out for his longevity, production, and business acumen.
Literature
Sarah Morgan Dawson
Sarah Morgan Dawson kept a dairy of her experiences during the Civil War in Louisiana.
Architecture
Shadows-on-the-Teche Plantation
Until artist Weeks Hall donated Shadows-on-the-Teche to the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1958, the New Iberia property had been in the Weeks family since the original Spanish land grant in 1792.
