The first Orthodox Church in the US was established in New Orleans in 1864, built in 1866, by Greek merchants.

No Union victory in the Civil War came easier than the capture of New Orleans. When Union forces sailed up the Mississippi River in 1862 — just over a year after Louisiana seceded — the city ...

New Orleans as a Black city has ... The Black population declined with political and racial turmoil—the Civil War, Emancipation through Reconstruction, and Jim Crow segregation through the ...

In the early hours of April 27, 1865, mere days after the end of the Civil War, the Sultana burst into flames along the ...

With tombs belonging to Marie Laveau, Nicolas Cage, and other legends, this circa-1789 cemetery in New Orleans is a must-visit for anyone curious about voodoo.

As a New Orleans schoolboy in the 1960s and 1970s, I was taught the insidious “Lost Cause” myth of the Civil War. In the poisonous fiction of the Lost Cause that was fed to millions of other ...

After the Civil War, 18 veterans of the United States Colored ... and crab rolls. As in New Orleans and Charleston, civil rights activists have pushed to remove Confederate monuments, including ...

War on homeless spending ... People at a homeless encampment in New Orleans that was shut down in January. Housing First programs were once the product of bipartisan consensus, but they are ...

The American Civil Liberties Union in recent days had ... request to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans. The lawyers then filed an emergency petition to the Supreme ...

Tucked into the rolling hills among the loblolly and sugar pines of northwest Louisiana is the state's oldest city, a good 250 miles and more than four hours by car from New Orleans. Natchitoches ...