1.8 f. Bread Pudding
Recipes for this baked dessert can turn stale bread into a delicious treat.
Contemporary Period
Contemporary Period Index
Music
Britney Spears
Spears is one of the best-known artists to emerge from Louisiana, having achieved international commercial success at an early age.
Folklife
Brown Pelican
Declared locally extinct in 1963, the brown pelican population rebounded in the state due to efforts by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
Music
Buckwheat Zydeco
Accordionist Stanley Dural, Jr., was zydeco's most commercially successful performer and an unofficial ambassador of the musical genre and Creole culture. Better known as "Buckwheat Zydeco," Dural helped introduce traditional Creole music to the mainstream.
Music
Buddy Guy
Louisiana-born guitarist and singer George "Buddy" Guy is the major link to the electric Chicago blues sound of the 1950s and 1960s.
History
Bulbancha
An Indigenous name for the area most often known in English as New Orleans.
Architecture
Butler Greenwood Plantation
The Butler Greenwood plantation house is built in the Gothic Revival style, popular in the St. Francisville area.
Art
C. C. Lockwood
For more than half a century, photographer C. C. Lockwood has documented Louisiana’s natural features, landscapes, flora, and fauna.
Architecture
Cabildo
The Cabildo, one of three eighteenth-century structures that anchor New Orleans's Jackson Square, stands as a visual monument to Spanish rule in Louisiana.
1.8 d. Cabildo
This historic building in New Orleans has played an important role in Louisiana’s government and is now a museum.
Architecture
Cajun Dance Halls
Cajun dance halls–salles de danse– are live music venues where dancing, courtship, and community building transpire.
Folklife
Cajun Folktales
Cajun Folktales are heavily influenced by French, West African, Caribbean, Acadian, German, and American South oral traditions.
