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3 days ago · Admitted to the union in 1812 as the 18th state, Louisiana commands a once strategically vital region where the waters of the great Mississippi-Missouri river system, draining the continental interior of North America, flow out into the warm, northward-curving crescent of the Gulf of Mexico.
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3 days ago · In 1810 the Territory of Orleans consisted of 77,000 people, and statehood proposals were beginning to be heard. When in 1812 the territory petitioned to enter the union, the eastern region now called the Florida Parishes—where the people had rebelled against the Spanish and established the Republic of West Florida—was included.
3 days ago · New Orleans - French Quarter, Jazz, Mardi Gras: The decision to found New Orleans, or Nouvelle-Orléans, was made in Paris in 1717 by John Law’s Company of the West, which had taken control of Louisiana that year.
2 days ago · Louisiana officials have taken to social media to react to the incident. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. Speaker Mike Johnson and his wife Kelly were at Mar-a-Lago with Trump Sunday. On X ...
5 days ago · Slave narratives were a central genre of African American literature in antebellum America. Still, some authors wrote fiction works, the first of whom is recorded to be Victor Séjour, a Louisianian whose native language was French. In 1837, he published a short story bearing the title “Le Mulâtre” (“The Mulatto”). This work is considered as
5 days ago · Evident, too, are signs of human intervention in the landscape. In South Louisiana, engineers shaped the Mississippi River, establishing a series of locks and dams, pump stations, and concrete canyons designed to protect residents from floods. Those structures are just as central to the story of this place as the legacy of those storms.
5 days ago · Francine made landfall along southern Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane before weakening to a tropical storm and unleashing flooding rainfall and gusty winds on the region Wednesday night. The ...
