1.8 f. Bread Pudding
Recipes for this baked dessert can turn stale bread into a delicious treat.
Recipes for this baked dessert can turn stale bread into a delicious treat.
This historic building in New Orleans has played an important role in Louisiana’s government and is now a museum.
The Old State Capitol in Baton Rouge is now a museum.
Louisiana’s Cajun music has been influenced by a rich blend of musical traditions.
People of the Tchefuncte, Marksville, Troyville, and Coles Creek cultures lived in Louisiana during the Woodland period.
During the Archaic period, people from the Evans culture built large mounds made of dirt.
Poverty Point in Louisiana, one of the most significant archaeological sites in in the world, dates to 3,500 years and represents the largest, most complex settlement of its kind in North America.
People from the Clovis culture and San Patrice culture were some of Louisiana’s earliest inhabitants.
The Acadians, ancestors of present-day Cajuns, were people of French ancestry who settled in what is now Canada before migrating to Louisiana.
Enslaved Africans and people of African descent played key roles in nearly every aspect of the development of Louisiana.
France’s Civil Code of 1804 standardized civil law and became a model legal framework around the world, including in Louisiana.
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, several expeditions explored the area that would later become known as Louisiana.
A paramilitary organization aligned with the Democratic Party, the White League played a central role in the overthrow of Republican rule and intimidation of African Americans in Louisiana during Reconstruction.
In 1873 white Louisianans responded to Reconstruction policies with violence, resulting in a massacre that claimed as many as 150 lives.
Federal forces occupied New Orleans, a strategic city at the mouth of the Mississippi River, from 1862 until the end of Reconstruction.
Thomas Jefferson commissioned the Dunbar-Hunter Expedition to explore and document the lower regions of the Louisiana Territory.
Louisiana hurricanes have played an essential role in the state’s history as recorded from colonization through the present.
After the Civil War, African Americans gained some political rights and power before having them taken away again during the era of Jim Crow laws and segregation.
One of the most destructive storms in Louisiana history, Hurricane Betsy made landfall on September 9, 1965.
During the Great Depression farm prices in Louisiana reached unheard-of lows and deepened rural poverty.
The French Civil Code of 1804 standardized civil law in France, becoming a model legal framework for jurisdictions around the world, including Louisiana.
The Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana is the largest of four federally recognized tribal governments in Louisiana.
The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe is one of only four American Indian groups in Louisiana recognized by the federal government.
This distinct form of government exists in more than half of Louisiana’s parishes.
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