Government, Politics & Law
1795 Point Coupee Slave Conspiracy
Enslaved, free Black, and white people planned an insurrection to end slavery in Spanish colonial Louisiana roughly 150 miles north of New Orleans.
Enslaved, free Black, and white people planned an insurrection to end slavery in Spanish colonial Louisiana roughly 150 miles north of New Orleans.
The Acadians, ancestors of present-day Cajuns, were people of French ancestry who settled in what is now Canada before migrating to Louisiana.
The treaty that settled the western boundary of the Louisiana Purchase was ratified by the governments of Spain and the United States in 1821.
Adolph Rinck settled in New Orleans around 1840 where he was a successful portrait and miniature painter, art teacher, and sketch artist.
This entry provides a biographical overview of Alejandro O'Reilly, the second Spanish governor of Louisiana.
Alejandro O’Reilly served as the second Spanish governor of Louisiana from 1769 to 1770.
Alexandre de Batz created the earliest known images of Native Americans in the lower Mississippi valley from sketches he rendered while surveying Louisiana in the eighteenth century.
French artist Ambrose Duval achieved success as a miniature portrait painter in New Orleans in the early nineteenth century.
An engineer by training, Antoine Simon Le Page du Pratz published a richly illustrated, three-volume, 1,300 page observation of life in early Louisiana, "Historie de La Louisiane."
Explorer, astronomer, and administrator Antonio de Ulloa was the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, serving from 1766 to 1768.
In New Orleans archaeological explorations span 2,500 years of history
This Catholic cemetery in Donaldsonville was laid out in a grid plan shortly after the church parish was founded in 1772.
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