As American cities go, New Orleans is unique in so many ways, including its coffee culture -- and chicory is a major part of ...

Civil War historians have not shown a great deal of attention to the fall of New Orleans, an event that was an early indicator of gloomier things to come for the Confederacy. In A Mortal Blow to the ...

Hidden histories come to life in this sprawling show, which includes photos, films and interactive touch-screen oral ...

Farragut, a Union naval fleet captures New Orleans. Union forces control the city until the end of the Civil War. June 7: Homer Plessy, who is categorized as seven-eighths Caucasian and one-eighth ...

Reconstruction after the Civil War promised black citizens of the United ... A group of powerful white New Orleans' residents would fight the changes and win. After the war ended Harry Hays ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Shreveport was the capital of the Confederate State of Louisiana from March 1863 until the ...

A forgotten Civil War veteran who died without a proper ... Walterhouse, who was born in Orleans County, New York, in 1823, died at the Orleans County Alms House at around 87 years of age.

From the Civil War to my own childhood in Louisiana in the 1950s and 1960s, to the attack on our Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, one thing is clear: MAGA politics does not confine itself to the voting booth.

New Orleans seems a strange ... response once the U.S. was in it, the war-fighting experience of the average soldier, the strategies, the impact on civil rights and the advancement of women ...

“Any understanding of this nation has to be based on an understanding of the Civil War ... society as the Creek War,” the author Peter Cozzens observes in his new book, A Brutal Reckoning ...

Thanks to its melting pot of cultures, New Orleans has many sides to explore ... you with stories about the city's role in the Civil War, its famous architecture and the filming locations for ...

A forgotten Civil War veteran who died without a proper ... Walterhouse, who was born in Orleans County, New York, in 1823, died at the Orleans County Alms House at around 87 years of age.