A mysterious formal portrait of an enslaved man named Frederick is expected to sell for as much as $500,000 at auction in New Orleans ...

February 10: The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Seven Years' War and resulting in Spain taking possession of New Orleans from France. The country's oldest family-run restaurant, Antoine's ...

with a history dating back to the 1840s. There's nowhere in America quite like New Orleans. After landing at Louis Armstrong International, you'll find a city that hums with a chaotic energy ...

In New Orleans, they call it a "gumbo ... The vegetable, which they called kimgombo, also gave gumbo its name. In the 1840s, hundreds of Louisianans went off to fight in the Mexican War.