How the Interstate obliterated a vintage Shreveport scene of the De Fatta grocery store, shot gun shacks, and hot tamale vendors.

In 1995, a business consultant introduced "disruptive innovation" which has become, for people like us "destructive innovation" instead.

The Arlington Hotel in downtown Shreveport opened in 1914.

Today, the Louisiana Tower stands in the Tilly aka Phoenix aka Youree aka Washington-Youree aka Captain Shreve Hotel's Shreveport site.

Coates' Bluff was Shreveport's original settlement, the site of a trading post within a Caddoan village.

A map about an unrealized future, drawn to indicate where the Texas & Pacific Railroad would pass once it was built west of Shreveport.

Southern Maid Donuts, particularly the ones made in Shreveport, Louisiana, are served fresh and hot in the afternoon.

I decided to take a look at the life of the Beeswing, a steamer on the Red River, after finding a receipt from 1844.

The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1873 claimed several victims in Shreveport, including Eugene Woodruff, who removed the Raft of the Red River.

If you search "Cash Point" in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, on a map today, you'd find RV Park bearing the name, and not much else.

Decommissioned in 1926, the Gardie Eastman may well have been the last steamboat to traverse the entirety of the Red River.

When the capitol of Louisiana faced Union Control and Reconstruction during the Civil War, western Louisiana descended into lawlessness.

Established by freed African Americans in 1865, St. Paul Bottom bordered Twelve Mile Bayou in the northwest section of downtown Shreveport.

This report by Captain Henry Shreve explains that the Red River Raft removal is complete. Kinda.

US 80, formerly known as the Dixie Overland Highway, merges with the Bankhead Highway and is the mother road of the Red River Valley.

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

Shreveport was prominently featured in Green Books

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

Draughon's Business Colleges private offered a "no-frills education without sports teams, commencement, and other distractions."

An oral history about Dr. Martin Luther King's visit to Shreveport in the 1950s.