The Colfax Massacre along the Red River was the most violent episode in Reconstruction Louisiana.

The Great Raft of the Red River: A Massive Log Jam with its own Eco System

Records by the Freedmen's Bureau from the Red River Valley describe horrors.

The French and Creole City of Natchitoches is the oldest colonial city in the Louisiana Purchase.

Fort Los Adaes near Robeline, Louisiana was once the capital of Spanish Texas.

The village of Natchitoches welcomed Fort St. Jean Baptiste in the early 18th century.

Gloster became a functioning place only after the Texas & Pacific trains came through

n 1940, photographer Marion Wolcott of the Works Progress Administration visited Natchitoches, Louisiana along the Cane River.

The Sale and Murphy Canal along the Red River once linked Louisiana and Arkansas around the upper portions of the Great Raft.

The Natchez settlement that was destroyed by French troops and Choctaw, Houma, and Tunica allies in the early 1730s.

In 1887, O.L. Coleman opened a school for African American children in Gibsland, Louisiana.

Shreve's Cut of the Mississippi River led to engineering the Red and Atchafalaya Rivers, and the victim was Red River Landing.

To prevent shifty salesmen, the city of Shreveport erected an orderly Farmers Market.

The purpose of "Shed Road" in Bossier City was to prevent rain from soaking the dirt trail below.

After his 1772 visit to Taovaya at the Red River, Athanase De Mézières preferred the villages over Natchitoches.

In 1936, the Chicken War of 1719 was inadvertently commemorated.

A description of the fur trade in Louisiana during the French colonial era.

The published account of the 28th Congressional Session in 1843 included a number of maps and drawings. These visuals helped to...

Pedro Vial's map of the "Great Spanish Road" began in Natchitoches and passed by homes and ranches of traders/planters

Sometime in the 1990s, the federal program called Historic Buildings Survey (HABS) documented the Coincoin- Prudhomme home along the Cane...