Going the distance
The published account of the 28th Congressional Session in 1843 included a number of maps and drawings. These visuals helped to...
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Robin Cole-Jett
Jul 26, 2021
Mansura mapping
I have never seen Mansura, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, well-represented on any map prior to satellite data. But we can figure out why...
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Robin Cole-Jett
Jul 6, 2021
Pedro Vial's map of his Great Spanish Road, Part II
Pedro Vial's map of the "Great Spanish Road" began in Natchitoches and passed by homes and ranches of traders/planters
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Robin Cole-Jett
Jun 29, 2021
Humble historic home
Sometime in the 1990s, the federal program called Historic Buildings Survey (HABS) documented the Coincoin- Prudhomme home along the Cane...
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Robin Cole-Jett
Jun 29, 2021
A nice long stroll through Chichi
One settlement along this path that interests me is at the western end of the road on this map - Chichi.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Jun 28, 2021
Dr. King's Visit to Shreveport
An oral history about Dr. Martin Luther King's visit to Shreveport in the 1950s.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Jul 21, 2020
Mexican Texas or Texan Mexico
Around 1821, Spanish Texas became Mexican Texas.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Jun 22, 2019
Red River expedition: The Parker Map
I was nosing around the digital collections listed at by the Louisiana State University (Shreveport) libraries and found the Parker map.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Mar 25, 2018
Union Relics from the Red River Campaign at Bailey's Dam, Alexandria, Louisiana
Nathan Banks, Union general, left a relic of the Red River Campaign at Bailey's Dam in Alexandria, Louisiana.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Jan 3, 2016
Death Divided: Segregation Cemeteries in the Red River Valley
The Red River Valley of the South still contains the remnants of segregation inside many of its cemeteries.
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