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...

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

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...

One settlement along this path that interests me is at the western end of the road on this map - Chichi.

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

Around 1821, Spanish Texas became Mexican Texas.

I was nosing around the digital collections listed at by the Louisiana State University (Shreveport) libraries and found the Parker map.

Nathan Banks, Union general, left a relic of the Red River Campaign at Bailey's Dam in Alexandria, Louisiana.

The Red River Valley of the South still contains the remnants of segregation inside many of its cemeteries.