Moore stated that after the Civil War, some of the saddest cases in the homeless community in Louisiana were that of “the old freed women women out with years of slavery.” Joanna wrote that ...

In Louisiana, about 1 out of every 100 people is incarcerated, making the state a global leader in imprisonment. This alarming statistic is rooted in Louisiana’s deep and painful history with ...

By Febrary 1, 1861, six more states -- Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four ...

Louisiana, and Fredericksburg, Virginia. There was scarcely a family in the South that did not lose a son or brother or father. As with any civil strife, the war was marked by excruciating ironies.

If Louisiana residents or tourists are traveling ... sites that display Livingston Parish's historic roots from the Civil War to the country's largest rural Hungarian settlement to remnants ...