1.8 f. Gumbo
Gumbo is a thick soup popular in Louisiana.
Gumbo is a thick soup popular in Louisiana.
A popular term in Louisiana usually tied to the gifting of something small—or a little something extra—with a purchase.
This spicy sauce is made in Louisiana and sold around the world.
The current Louisiana State Capitol is the tallest capitol building in the United States.
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.
During the Archaic period, people from the Evans culture built large mounds made of dirt.
By studying artifacts, archaeologists know that people were in Louisiana at least 13,000 years ago.
People of the Plaquemine, Caddo, and Mississippian cultures lived in Louisiana between 300 and 800 years ago during a time known as the Mississippi period.
The era of French control over Louisiana was marked by many challenges, including hurricanes and conflicts with Native American groups like the Natchez.
Alejandro O’Reilly served as the second Spanish governor of Louisiana from 1769 to 1770.
When forced by a French commander to leave their village, Natchez men responded by attacking the French settlement of Fort Rosalie.
The Tunica people, skilled traders and entrepreneurs who engaged with French colonists in the eighteenth century, merged with several other historical Louisiana tribes in the twentieth century.
Two French brothers notorious for smuggling and slave trading also participated in the Battle of New Orleans.
Federal forces occupied New Orleans, a strategic city at the mouth of the Mississippi River, from 1862 until the end of Reconstruction.
During the antebellum period, Louisiana relied on the forced labor of enslaved people to work sugar and cotton plantations.
Oscar James Dunn became one of the first Black men in the United States to serve in an executive political position when he was elected lieutenant governor of Louisiana in 1868.
The Standard Oil Company of Louisiana transformed Baton Rouge but found a political opponent in Huey P. Long.
Huey Long rose from ordinary beginnings in Winn Parish to become Louisiana’s most famous politician.
Hurricane Katrina and the flooding that followed brought international attention to Louisiana.
The effectiveness of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal program in Louisiana was undercut by conflict with US Senator Huey P. Long.
This distinct form of government exists in more than half of Louisiana’s parishes.
The French Civil Code of 1804 standardized civil law in France, becoming a model legal framework for jurisdictions around the world, including Louisiana.
The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe is one of only four American Indian groups in Louisiana recognized by the federal government.
The Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana is the largest of four federally recognized tribal governments in Louisiana.
Celebrating Louisiana Musical Legends in the Classroom
Celebrating Louisiana Musical Legends in the Classroom
Celebrating Louisiana Musical Legends in the Classroom
Celebrating Louisiana Musical Legends in the Classroom
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