During the American Revolution, Louisiana — which was then under Spanish rule — played a significant role in supporting the ...

In 1848 or thereabouts, a talented artist painted an almost life-size group portrait of the three children of one of the ...

He’s no Indiana Jones, but he spent decades uncovering real treasures. Meet Chip McGimsey, Louisiana’s retiring state ...

The vivid sophomore novel from Harris (The Sweetness of Water) follows a formerly enslaved brother and sister in the ...

Trump is charging immigrants with petty offenses under a WWII-era law. It's triggered a legal showdown in Louisiana that ...

Capitol Park Museum is ranked #3 out of 15 things to do in Baton Rouge. See pictures and our review of Capitol Park Museum.

The law was enacted in response to decades of post-Civil War efforts – particularly in the South ... for some 250 miles from Shreveport in the northwest of the state to Baton Rouge in the southeast to ...

The Vicksburg National Military Park today stretches over 1800 acres worth of ravines, woods, and fields. The Vicksburg ...

Have you ever wondered: what are the most dangerous states in the United States? Sounds like you came to the right place. The ...

Alexander Dimitry was a man of firsts. He was Louisiana’s first state superintendent of education, the first person of color ...

Dauda Sesay, founder and executive director of the Louisiana Organization for Refugees and Immigrants, said his family depended on food assistance after fleeing civil war in Sierra Leone as a teenager ...