With Louisiana’s militias off fighting in Virginia and Tennessee, the job of defending the Crescent City fell to two forts ...

Reconstruction after the Civil War promised black citizens of the United States ... A group of powerful white New Orleans' residents would fight the changes and win. After the war ended Harry ...

Deciding who is a hero certainly depends on one’s point of view. During the Civil War, spy operations were instrumental in ...

A New Orleans banker named Edmund McIlhenny tried his hand at a new business following the Civil War. Planting Central American pepper seeds on Avery Island, Louisiana, McIlhenny developed a spicy ...