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.

A rare winter storm charging through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast on Tuesday has closed highways and airports and prompted the first blizzard warning for southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana.

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Police say a 10-year-old boy shot and killed the 82-year-old onetime mayor of a northwest Louisiana town.