Archaeology
Pre-Clovis and Clovis Cultures
This entry covers the Pre-Clovis and Clovis cultures during the Early Paleoindian Period, 11500–9500 BCE, and Middle Paleoindian Period, 9500 BCE–8800 BCE.
This entry covers the Pre-Clovis and Clovis cultures during the Early Paleoindian Period, 11500–9500 BCE, and Middle Paleoindian Period, 9500 BCE–8800 BCE.
This entry covers the San Patrice culture during the Late Paleoindian and Early Archaic Periods, 8800–6000 BCE.
Archaeologists at sites across Louisiana help fill in the written record through physical excavations of the past.
Coincoin, a formerly enslaved woman freed in colonial Natchitoches, is an icon of American slavery and Louisiana’s Creole culture.
Southeastern Louisiana University, founded in 1925 as Hammond Junior College, was brought into the state system of higher education in 1928.
Rosedown Plantation in Louisiana is one of the most intact and well-documented examples of a plantation complex in the South.
Louisiana architects Charles Dakin and James Dakin designed the Old State Capitol building in Baton Rouge, as well as the St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans, among other projects.
Andrew Jackson was entertained at Cottage Plantation while en route to Natchez after the Battle of New Orleans.
Charles Woodward Hutson, at the time of his retirement, had trained as a lawyer, served as a Confederate soldier, a university professor, and was a critically acclaimed artist.
Herman Leonard is considered to by many to be the most significant photographer of jazz musicians in the post-World War II era.
Clarence John Laughlin was one of New Orleans' most renowned twentieth-century photographers and, at the same time, among the least understood.
New Orleans artist Alan Flattmann has become recognized as one of the most influential and respected pastel artists in the country.
Freeman & Harris Café was a Black-owned restaurant that served as a pillar of Black social, cultural, and political life in Shreveport.
J. D. Miller’s recording studios in Crowley are best known for recording South Louisiana musical genres but the studio leaves a mixed legacy, having produced a series of racist songs in the 1960s.
The Singer Submarine Company operated a naval yard on the banks of Cross Bayou that built five Confederate submarines, four of which were sunk before seeing combat.
The United States’ entry into World War II spurred Louisiana’s recovery from the economic doldrums of the Great Depression.
Once one of the most productive salt mines in the country, the Belle Isle Salt Mine was the site of numerous deadly accidents.
A rainy weekend in August 2016 unexpectedly left behind more than three times the amount of rain dropped by Hurricane Katrina, damaging 146,000 homes in fifty-six of Louisiana’s sixty-four parishes.
Hurricane Camille struck coastal Mississippi in mid-August of 1969, marking the first designated Category 5 storm and one of Louisiana’s most storied tropical weather events.
On July 9, 1982, wind shear caused Pan Am Flight 759 to crash into the New Orleans suburb of Kenner, killing 153 people.
Louisiana's state dog has a distinctive look and personality
Cajun folklife is a field of study that describes, catalogs, and deciphers meaning within the vernacular culture of Acadian refugees who settled in Louisiana.
Mardi Gras in New Orleans is celebrated by costumed revelers, krewes, floats and flambeaux, parades, and masked balls.
The history of the fort, mission, and settlement of Los Adaes reflects both intercolonial rivalry and cooperation among the Spanish, French, and Native Americans who lived along the border of New Spain and French Louisiana.
Gumbo is a thick soup that could be considered the signature dish of South Louisiana.
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.
Beignets, or pockets of fried dough served with powdered sugar, are an iconic New Orleans treat.
Stale loaves of bread get a sweet rebirth in this popular baked dessert.
A portion of Louisiana was once the western extremity of colonial Florida
The Fontainebleau State Park bears the name of Bernard de Marigny's sugar plantation, which formerly occupied this site and was itself named after the estate of the French king Francois I.
The Natchitoches settlement, founded in 1714, is the oldest in the Louisiana Territory.
Surveyed and platted in 1883 for the New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad, Slidell was named for John Slidell, Confederate ambassador to France and U.S. congressman.
Louisiana seceded from the Union on January 26, 1861, although many in the state opposed the decision.
Clay Shaw is the only person tried on charges related to an alleged conspiracy in the November 22, 1963, assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Serving from 1782 until 1791, Spanish-colonial governor Esteban Miró oversaw a period of relative economic prosperity.
Approximately forty ethnically and politically distinct North American Indigenous polities located in the Gulf Coast region and lower Mississippi River valley made up les petites nations.
During his short term as governor from 1924 to 1926, Henry Luce Fuqua advocated increased levee and road construction in Louisiana as well as the expansion of Louisiana State University.
William Ratcliffe Irby, a wealthy tobacco company executive, banker, and philanthropist in New Orleans, became a driving force in saving the French Quarter from potential mass demolition.
In the late nineteenth century, Populist Party advocates railed against the prevailing system and urged cooperation among oppressed peoples to secure reform.
The so-called poor boy (po-boy) sandwich originated from the Martin Brothers' French Market Restaurant and Coffee Stand in New Orleans during the 1929 streetcar strike.
Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner lived in New Orleans and wrote some of his earliest works there.
Rebecca Wells is a novelist, actress, and playwright from central Louisiana.
Playwright Tony Kushner, one-time resident of Lake Charles, is the author of prizewinning drama "Angels in America."
From the time of colonial exploration to the present, Louisiana’s landscape has inspired a rich variety of nature writing.
Founded in 1970, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, known as Jazz Fest, draws hundreds of thousands of visitors a year to experience the music, cuisine, and cultural heritage of Louisiana.
Composer and cellist Joseph Arquier lived in New Orleans between 1800 and 1804.
Lucinda Williams is a multiple Grammy award-winning songwriter and performer whose blues, southern rock, Cajun, and folk-influenced sound has achieved commercial success while staying true to her stripped-down, roots music aesthetic.
Avery “Kid” Howard began his musical career in New Orleans, performing with the Eureka Brass Band and the Tuxedo Brass Band before going on to lead his own group, the Kid Howard Brass Band.
The Quapaw Indians, whose four villages were located along the Arkansas River, were military allies and trade partners of colonial Louisianans.
The influence of Irish immigrants in New Orleans can still be seen in the Irish Channel neighborhood, St. Patrick's Day celebrations and churches such as St. Alphonsus.
Cajuns are the descendants of Acadian exiles from what are now the maritime provinces of Canada–Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island–who migrated to southern Louisiana.
Caddo people began to inhabit the Red River valley approximately 2,500 years ago.
Marie Tranchepain was the first Mother Superior of New Orleans’s Ursulines and an early female diarist.
Thousands of New Orleans’s eighteenth-century residents are interred at the site of the St. Peter Street Cemetery in the French Quarter.
African American Gospel music incorporates elements of both black vernacular and sacred music, including blues, hymnody, spirituals, the folk church, and even popular song.
A Jesuit priest was the first to establish Catholic missions among the Indigenous peoples of the Gulf South.
Flint-Goodridge Hospital opened in 1896 to serve New Orleans’s Black community and provide medical training for Black nurses and physicians at a time when other hospitals denied services to Black people.
The United States’ entry into World War II spurred Louisiana’s recovery from the economic doldrums of the Great Depression.
Louisiana hurricanes have played an essential role in the state’s history from colonization through the present and are as memorable as the places and people they impact.
For a state experiencing land loss at an alarming rate, coastal restoration has become an urgent need.
Larry Gilbert played major-league baseball, including in the 1914 World Series, before managing the New Orleans Pelicans.
Sired by Secretariat and owned by Ronnie Lamarque and Louis Roussel III, Risen Star was one of the most successful racehorses ever to come out of Louisiana.
New Orleans sailing champion Buddy Friedrichs won a gold medal in the 1968 Summer Olympics in the Dragon Class.
Ham Richardson was one of the top-rated mens tennis players in the world in the 1950s.
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