That story is told in a new book of the same name, the work of a pair of preeminent scholars of colonial Louisiana, Nathalie ...
Eighteenth century documents in French and Spanish retracing life in Louisiana have been made available online, free of charge. The Colonial Documents Collection provides a unique window into the ...
Midterm elections are fast approaching and early voting is just around the corner. The Times Picayune | New Orleans Advocate’s editorial page director and columnist, Stephanie Grace, joins us to break ...
New Orleans-- A marathon project is under way in New Orleans to digitize thousands of time-worn 18th century French and Spanish legal papers that historians say give the first historical accounts of ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — Magnolia Mound Plantation House is a place where visitors can step into history to get a glimpse of Louisiana’s colonial period. According to a National Register of ...
Historical Archaeology, Vol. 36, No. 1, French Colonial Archaeology at Old Mobile: Selected Studies (2002), pp. 3-12 (10 pages) Twelve years of excavation and analysis of the Old Mobile archaeological ...
Curious about Louisiana's oldest cemetery? This one dates back to 1737 and is the oldest cemetery in the Louisiana Purchase.
The late George Crozat spent much of his life preserving colonial Louisiana craftsmanship in a stately column- and gallery-adorned antebellum plantation home along the Mississippi River. Those who ...