James Henry Ingraham asked a poignant question in the New Orleans Tribune in 1865: “We must ask for our rights as men. If we ...

NEW ORLEANS, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – The names of Patsy Shaw, Patience Jorum, Joanna P. Moore, Margaret Jones, Harriet Taylor, and ...

Achilles Harris was a husband, father, and private from a town named Athens in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. He wrote home to his wife Rebecca from the start of the American Civil War, when he left ...

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If Louisiana residents or tourists are traveling to Baton Rouge or New Orleans, chances are they might drive through Livingston Parish — and pass a few culturally rich historic areas on the way as ...

Kourtland Marcotte didn’t know that Black soldiers played such significant roles in Civil War battles, like the Battle of Vicksburg. The incoming Peabody Magnet High School senior and speech and ...

He wasn't popular in the South at the Civil War's end, and in many ways, he still isn't. But that didn't keep Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman from returning to Louisiana after scorching a path through ...

Northwest Louisiana has been part of several events in Black history. From the Civil War, to Civil Rights; from legendary musicians to educators, the area is full of locations touched by the past.

Cecily Zander, an assistant professor of history at the University of Wyoming, has earned the 2025 Center for Civil War Research’s Wiley-Silver Prize for the best first book in Civil War history. This ...