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

I have never seen Mansura, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, well-represented on any map prior to satellite data. But we can figure out why...

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

A broadly circulated description of Louisiana explained how travelers could get to Mexico from Natchez, Mississippi, and this 1814 map...

In January of 2002, Shreveport resident William Hines, who was one of the city's first African American police officers, gave an oral...