BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — Magnolia Mound Plantation House is a place where visitors can step into history to get a glimpse of Louisiana’s colonial period. According to a National Register of ...

In its earliest usage in colonial Louisiana, Creole — créole in French or criollo in Spanish — referred to any person born in the Americas of European or African ancestry. Over time, that geographic ...

A historian of colonial-era Louisiana, she dug deep into the archives to transform our understanding of the roots of American culture. By Clay Risen Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, who after years of digging ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A marathon project is under way in New Orleans to digitize thousands of time-worn 18th-century French and Spanish legal papers that historians say give the first historical accounts ...

It was Charles who accepted the Louisiana territory from France in 1762 (although the cession wasn’t made public until 1764) and then had to wrestle with how to rule a rebellious French colony.