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Explore what was the Louisiana Purchase. Check how this historic land deal doubled the US, its significant history, the vast ...
The Historic Map Company in Lafayette sells a variety of vintage maps and reproductions. Most of the maps have a local or Louisiana connection.
A trail leading from near St. Louis, Missouri to Natchitoches, Louisiana, teaches us about a race that ruled “the new world” ...
Louisiana voters travel to Washington, D.C. for a historic U.S. Supreme Court hearing on the state's congressional redistricting case.
To see how Louisiana residents have voted in years past for U.S. Senate, view our interactive map.
Lawmakers in Louisiana have until the end of the month “to draw and pass new congressional boundaries to replace a current map that a federal judge said violates the Voting Rights Act by ...
The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday on whether Louisiana lawmakers can use race as a factor when drawing congressional maps, a closely watched case that could impact voters nationwide in the ...
Flames tore through the second floor of the historic Nottoway Plantation in Iberville Parish on Thursday. Fire crews contained the blaze. Cause under investigation.
In one of the volumes of the census of 1870 is a map of "The Acquisition and Transfer of Territory," on which "the Province of Louisiana, 1803," is shown as extending to the Pacific coast on the ...
(CNN) — The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Monday in a years-old, messy legal battle over Louisiana’s congressional districts that could have nationwide implications for how states ...
An 11-year-old boy shot and killed the 82-year-old onetime mayor of a northwest Louisiana town, police say. Minden Police Chief Jared McIver told local news outlets that the boy told police that ...
Louisiana state lawmakers approved a new congressional map on Friday, drawing a second majority-Black district to comply with a court order.