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Vidal, Cecile, ed. Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World (University of Pennsylvania Press; 2013) 278 pages; essays by scholars on Louisiana in Atlantic history from the late-17th to the mid-19th centuries.
Glenn Russell Conrad (September 3, 1932 – June 4, 2003) [1] was an American historian, professor, and author.He is known for his research of south Louisiana culture, as well as an expert on archival studies, nineteenth-century European history, and the history of colonial Louisiana.
Founded in 1973, the Center for Louisiana Studies grew around the University's copies of the Louisiana Colonial Records Collection. Begun in 1967, the Collection attempts to draw together available microfilmed copies of any and all primary source records focused on the discovery, exploration, settlement, and development of the Mississippi Valley between 1682 and 1803.
Gayarré wrote Histoire de la Louisiane (1847); Romance of the History of Louisiana (1848); Louisiana: its Colonial History and Romance (1851), reprinted in A History of Louisiana; History of Louisiana: the Spanish Domination (1854); Philip II of Spain (1866); and A History of Louisiana (4 volumes, 1866), the last collecting and adding to his ...
John David Winters (December 23, 1916 – December 9, 1997) [1] was an American historian at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana.He is known for his monograph The Civil War in Louisiana, which was published in 1963, released in paperback in 1991, and is still in print. [2]
Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz (1695?–1775) [1] was a French ethnographer, historian, and naturalist who is best known for his Histoire de la Louisiane.It was first published in twelve installments from 1751 to 1753 in the Journal Economique, then completely in three volumes in Paris in 1758.
Twin Blends: Northwest Louisiana History Hunters wishes The Strand Theatre of Shreveport a happy 100th birthday!. While researching at the Northwest Louisiana Archives at LSUS a while back, we ...
Louisiana entrance sign off Interstate 20 in Madison Parish east of Tallulah. Louisiana [pronunciation 1] (French: Louisiane ⓘ; Spanish: Luisiana; Louisiana Creole: Lwizyàn) [b] is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It borders Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, and Mississippi to the east.