History
Robert Mills Lusher
Confederate official and Reconstruction-era Superintendent of Education for the State of Louisiana
Reconstruction Period
Reconstruction Period Index
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.
Government, Politics & Law
Samuel McEnery
Democrat Samuel McEnery served as governor of Louisiana from 1881 until 1888.
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.
Music
Shape Note Singing
Shape-note singing dates from the late seventeenth century and is a system of printed shapes, instead of standard music notation, to help untrained singers learn how to read the music.
History
Sharecropping
Sharecropping was a labor that came out of the Civil War and lasted until the 1950s.
History
Shed Road
The South's first all-weather turnpike was Louisiana's most unique road, built in the 1870s in Bossier Parish.
