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In this undated photo, a cutout of a stained glass window with the Great Seal of the Confederacy is seen at Louisiana's Civil War Museum in New Orleans. Inside the museum, battle flags line the ...
NEW ORLEANS - Inside Louisiana's Civil War Museum, battle flags line the walls. Uniforms, swords and long-barreled guns fill museum cases beside homespun knapsacks, dented canteens and tiny framed ...
Ken Burns: 150 years after Civil War, America is not post-racial 03:00. Museum workers found fire damage when they arrived for work Thursday morning, he said.
A small, elegant museum on Esplanade Avenue is on a mission. Le Musée de f.p.c. is devoted to the history of the so-called free people of color, who flourished in New Orleans before the Civil War ...
The white frame, pillared house in Opelousas, La., that served as the home and office of Louisiana Gov. Thomas O. Moore for nine months between 1862 and 1863 burned to the ground on July 14. Local ...
Louisiana’s public museum system has not had a permanent director since May 2016 and has seen its workforce fall sharply since 2009, owing in large parts to a lack of funding, a new audit of the ...
Artist William Dunlap says he's always been under the spell of the Civil War. ... A few years back, the folks at the Confederate Museum, the oldest museum in Louisiana (opened 1891), ...
Inside Louisiana's Civil War Museum, battle flags line the walls. Uniforms, swords and long-barreled guns fill museum cases beside homespun knapsacks, dented canteens and tiny framed pictures of ...
LOUISIANA, Mo. -- The Louisiana Area Historical Museum has taken steps to preserve a tattered Confederate flag used during the Civil War. The red, white and blue flag -- featuring a dozen small ...
Inside Louisiana's Civil War Museum, battle flags line the walls. Uniforms, swords and long-barreled guns fill museum cases beside homespun knapsacks, dented canteens and tiny framed pictures of ...
In this undated photo, infantry items appear on display at Louisiana's Civil War Museum in New Orleans. But 150 years after the Civil War, the little museum finds itself in another battle: like ...