The new Historic New Orleans Collection exhibit “The Trail They Blazed” got its start about a decade ago with an oral history ...

Andrew Wiest: 2 p.m., Barnes & Noble, 3721 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie. The author signs and reads "The Boys of '67: ...

Stretching 3 miles from the Mississippi River to City Park, Esplanade Avenue is today a leafy thoroughfare lined with ...

(Credit: From the Historic New Orleans Collection; gift of Samuel Wilson ... native Homer Plessy and his unsuccessful fight against Louisiana’s racial segregation laws in the late 1800s.

After more than 150 years in Germany, the remains of 19 Black people, taken for racist scientific research, have been ...

The Historic New Orleans Collection did the research and found that Pope Leo’s grandparents on his mother’s side lived in the Seventh Ward. “We thought it would be fun for anyone interested ...

The plantation was a major attraction and tourism driver for the southeastern Louisiana parish near ... Arts of the Gulf South at The Historic New Orleans Collection. Once here, he commissioned ...

The new leader of the Catholic Church has a distinction that goes beyond being the first pope from the United States.

and the Historic New Orleans Collection says they were “Creole” or mixture of cultures, and of Black ancestry. According to Louisiana’s historic “one-drop” rule, that would make Pope Leo ...

By Rhett Breerwood, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office and LANG Museums NEW ORLEANS – This November, the Louisiana National Guard’s 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, known as the Tiger ...

A fire broke out at a historic ... state of Louisiana" The blaze at the Nottoway Resort plantation house in White Castle began sometime around 2 p.m. local time, the New Orleans Advocate and ...