THEN: In 1816, four years after Louisiana was admitted to the Union, the first official state map used the term "parishes" to denote local governmental units, acknowledging a church-based system ...

The Colonial Documents Collection provides a unique window into the daily life of the people – free and enslaved – who then lived in Louisiana, and brings history closer, three centuries later.

Johns Hopkins University historian Jessica Marie Johnson has received a $120,000 planning grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission for her "Kinship and Longing: Keywords ...