Drawn by New Orleans’ strong Catholic community and opportunities for work, the Irish came by droves to the city during the potato famine. According to historian Laura Kelley, by 1850 ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – The first archaeological ... below that – cypress timbers from another building not on any city map. Unlike the hut, those timbers align with the 1724 street grid, Dawdy ...

Among the curious is Michelle Hoggatt, a lifelong resident of Morgan City ... New Orleans. However, Campanella says the origins are even older. He says it goes all the way back to a late-1700s ...

In 278 years, the Ursuline Sisters of New Orleans have never left their city. On Sunday, after seven days living in a school surrounded by water, they departed their convent and their town on ...