Architecture
Madisonville
Madisonville became an important Louisiana shipbuilding center, boasting four shipyards by the late nineteenth century.
Encyclopedia
Architecture
Architecture
Curtis and Davis Architects
The architectural firm Curtis and Davis designed the Superdome, Rivergate, and other notable buildings in New Orleans and throughout the state.
Architecture
Madewood Plantation
Greek Revival Madewood Plantation was one of Henry Howard's first commissions and helped launch his successful architectural practice.
Architecture
Louisiana State University Rural Life Museum
LSU Rural Life Museum is an outdoor complex of southern rural vernacular buildings located in Baton Rouge.
Art
Art
John Scott
John T. Scott, raised in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward, is best known for his vibrantly colored kinetic art.
Art
Marion Souchon
New Orleans surgeon Marion Sims Souchon was also a respected self-taught artist who produced more than 500 paintings.
Art
Arts and Crafts Club of New Orleans
Between 1922 and 1951, the Arts and Crafts Club of New Orleans worked to enrich and expand the city’s artistic heritage and served as one of its cultural centers.
Art
Richard Sexton
Richard Sexton, a nationally recognized photographer, writer, book publisher, and teacher, lives and works in New Orleans.
Folklife
Folklife
Crawfish Boils
Crawfish boils are a springtime ritual in Louisiana.
Folklife
Lagniappe
"Lagniappe" is a vernacular word used in New Orleans to refer to a complimentary giveaway in a retail environment.
Folklife
All Saints Day
All Saints Day or All Hallows Day is a Catholic tradition honoring the saints and also deceased family members each November 1.
Folklife
Mardi Gras Indians
Mardi Gras Indians have become recognizable symbols of New Orleans's unique local culture, yet remain closely tied to their specific communities and traditions.
Foodways
Foodways
Tabasco Sauce
Tabasco is a popular brand of pepper sauce products and related items manufactured by McIlhenny Company, a privately held, family-owned business headquartered on Avery Island, Louisiana.
Foodways
Gumbo
Gumbo is a thick soup that can be considered the signature dish of south Louisiana.
Foodways
Avery Island
Located in Iberia Parish, Avery Island, the largest of five salt domes along the Louisiana coast, is the home of the McIlhenny Company, maker of Tabasco brand products for more than 140 years.
Foodways
Crawfish Boils
Crawfish boils are a springtime ritual in Louisiana.
Geography
Geography
Red River Raft
The Great Raft was a thousand-year-old logjam in the Red River that prevented transportation downriver to New Orleans.
Geography
Fontainebleau State Park
The Fountainebleau 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.
Geography
The Neutral Strip
The Neutral Strip existed outside the governance of either the United States or Spain until 1821.
Geography
Slidell
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.
Government & Politics
Government & Politics
Jared Young Sanders
Democrat Jared Sanders, who served as governor of Louisiana from 1908 until 1912, was the first governor elected under a state law that required gubernatorial candidates to participate in a primary election.
Government & Politics
Edwin Edwards
Democratic politician Edwin Washington Edwards casts a long shadow over the state's political history.
Government & Politics
Civil War Louisiana
The Civil War in Louisiana left the state politically divided and financially ruined.
Government & Politics
John J. McKeithen
John J. McKeithen, the 49th governor of Louisiana, served from 1964 to 1972.
History
History
Luther Hall
Before becoming governor of Louisiana, a position he held from 1912 until 1916, Luther Hall served as a state senator, a district judge, and a state appellate court judge.
History
Progressive Era in Louisiana
The Progressive movement that swept across the United States at the turn of the twentieth century brought changes to many of the nation's social and political institutions, including those in Louisiana.
History
Capture of Bonnie and Clyde
On May 23, 1934, fugitives Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were captured by law enforcement officers in Bienville Parish.
History
Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola
Founded in the early nineteenth century during a time of radical penal reformation, the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is one of the nation's largest prisons.
Literature
Literature
Loujon Press
Loujon Press was an avant-garde publishing operation in 1960's New Orleans that was a pioneer of high-quality, independent publishing.
Literature
Detective Fiction
For all the rich and varied literature that has come out of Louisiana, mystery and detective fiction has, for the most part, been a recent addition to the state's literary canon.
Literature
Swamps in Literature, Film, and Folklore
Swamps have a unique place in the literature, film and folklore of Louisiana.
Literature
Christopher Mason Haile
Christopher Mason Haile became a journalist and local color writer after he moved to Louisiana.
Music
Music
William Francis
William T. Francis was a versatile musician and composer who lived in New Orleans in the late nineteenth century.
Music
Punch Miller
“Punch” Miller, also known as “Kid Punch,” was a New Orleans traditional jazz, blues, and brass band trumpeter and vocalist.
Music
Ernie K-Doe
The late New Orleans rhythm & blues artist Ernie K-Doe remains an iconic figure in Crescent City music and culture.
Music
Opera and Ballet
New Orleans has an almost unbroken tradition of opera that began in 1796 and first documented ballet was presented just three years later.
Religion & Spirituality
Religion & Spirituality
All Saints Day
All Saints Day or All Hallows Day is a Catholic tradition honoring the saints and also deceased family members each November 1.
Religion & Spirituality
Jimmy Swaggart
Called the "King of Honky Tonk Heaven" by Newsweek in 1982, Ferriday's Jimmy Swaggart was America's most popular televangelist in the 1980s.
Sports & Recreation
Sports & Recreation
Evangeline Baseball League
The Evangeline League was a minor league baseball circuit in southern and central Louisiana in the first half of the twentieth century.
Sports & Recreation
Rodney Milburn
Rodney Milburn was born in Opelousas and competed successfully at Southern University in Baton Rouge before becoming the world’s best high hurdler in the early 1970s.
Sports & Recreation
Eddie Delahoussaye
Horse racing jockey Eddie Delahoussaye won five Triple Crown races and is a member of the National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame and the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.
Sports & Recreation
Howie Pollet
Howie Pollet was one of three left-handed pitchers from the same New Orleans block to make it to baseball's major leagues.
