Rights guaranteed in three languages
Through the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, France sold more than 800,000 square miles of land to the United States for $15 million—doubling the size of the fledgling...
Scholars ready to fight
In this letter, “fifty odd scholars” of Mandeville College in Louisiana advised President James K. Polk not to relinquish an inch of Oregon. They not only echoed...
The Big Easy from above
This aerial photograph shows a section of New Orleans, Louisiana, on December 15, 1952. The city’s famous French Quarter is located just above the curve of the...