This essay is one of five in which I address current issues in Cajun and Creole studies .  The other essays can be found  here . I wrote the...

I have been asked a number of times “When did slavery in Louisiana end?” * The short answer is that slavery in Louisiana ended between the e...

Historians and math do not always go well together. In fact, historians are notoriously bad when it comes to math. There are exceptions, as...