Louisiana is the only US state that refers to its political subdivisions as parishes, which are equivalent to counties ...

Reports state that he successfully passed through Louisiana and Texas, crossing through El Paso ... She disappeared while ...

1792-1821: 6 new slave states enter the United States: Kentucky (1792), Tennessee (1796); Louisiana (1812), Mississippi (1817), Alabama (1819), and Missouri (1821) Territory north of 36 degrees 30 ...

Stoddert, Louisiana Territory ... After four years in exile, Aaron Burr returned to America again. In mid-1812, the country was on the brink of war with Britain, and the Burr Conspiracy seemed ...

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

Style's weekly series on travel in Arkansas detours briefly into southeast Missouri to an attraction focused on the ...

Arkansas’s northern boundary was shaped in 1813 when Arkansas County was formed within the Mississippi Territory. When ...

Baton Rouge and Lafayette have no shortage of options to get your fix. From hole-in-the-walls to big chains, some are a ...

There is one marking the $3 million gold-backed bond issue in 1933 for the State of Louisiana Port Commission ... leading to the Battle of New Orleans in 1812. Here, George Villere Young, one ...

On Wednesday, Nov. 13, several Shreveport-Bossier locations will be ready to collect non-perishable food items or cash ...

Houston lost its most recent game, however the Cougars' coach wasn't totally dissatisfied. Louisiana won its most recent game ...

Rich in history (the town was founded way back in 1677) and proud of its nickname as “the town that fooled the British” in the War of 1812, St. Michaels is also ... in traditional pot stills using ...