One might well wonder why an inland city was selected as the site of a Civil War naval museum. The answer is twofold.

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.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — After Candice Henderson-Chandler moved to New Orleans and bought her first house in 2021, she learned it had played a key role in the city’s civil rights history and was the ...

NEW ORLEANS ( WGNO) — The National WWII Museum held its annual Memorial Day Commemoration on Monday, May 26.

Morial Convention Center will be the first concrete result from a decades-long push to build a civil-rights museum in New Orleans, according to officials and activists who have been leading the ...

Explore the National World War II Museum While there's plenty of Civil War history to explore in New Orleans, military buffs who are more interested in modern warfare will want to go to the ...

NEW ORLEANS — A new ... is the idea that almost 80 years later, the war's social and geopolitical legacies endure — from the acceleration of civil rights and women's equality movements ...