The New Orleans that Franklin, one of the biggest slave traders of the early 19th century, saw housed more than 45,000 people and was the fifth-largest city in the United States.

New Orleans, with its strong maritime traditions, is sometimes considered a "Navy town," but the city's Army roots are equal ...

The Italianate-style mansion has been restored over the last seven years and now contains a sleek modern kitchen with marble ...

New Orleans, which was the largest city in the Confederacy, fell to Union forces in 1862 and was under federal occupation beyond the Civil War’s end in 1865. No place for Lee ...

NEW ORLEANS — When customers started using the telephone to make ... Started before the Civil War by French immigrant Antoine Alciatore — who felt at home in the French-speaking city ...

Workers arrived to begin removing the statue, which commemorates whites who tried to topple a biracial post-Civil War government in New Orleans, around 1:25 a.m. in an attempt to avoid disruption ...

New Orleans started taking down the first of four prominent Confederate monuments in the city early Monday morning, at about 1:30 a.m. The city is the most recent Southern stronghold to remove ...

Today on Architectural Digest we visit Baronne Street in New Orleans to tour a civil war era property bursting with potential but in need of renovation. This house is a quintessential example of ...

On May 19, the city of New Orleans removed a statue of Robert E. Lee from atop an 80-foot pedestal, where it had stood for 133 years. The Confederate Army commander’s likeness was the last of ...

New Orleans, which was the largest city in the Confederacy, fell to Union forces in 1862 and was under federal occupation beyond the Civil War’s end in 1865. No place for Lee ...