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By Carolyn Morrow Long A free woman of color descended from enslaved Africans and French colonists, Marie Laveau is known as the Voudou...

THE AXEMAN FORCED A CITY TO LISTEN TO JAZZ TO AVOID HIS TERRIFYING WRATH. From May 1918 to October 1919, a serial killer aptly named the...

by CHRISTIE MATHERNE HALL A shrine to Father Francis Seelos in St. Mary's Assumption Church and Our Lady of Guadalupe (formerly the...

Storyville in New Orleans may be the most famous American red light district, but little of it survives. After prostitution in Storyville...

New Orleans and its vital port became a major source of armament, supplies, and income to the Confederate Army. Its location near the...

New Orleans was the jewel of the Confederacy. In addition to being the South’s largest city, it boasted considerable industry that...