Exhibit: The End of Civil War in Louisiana

A new exhibit in the Main Hallway explores the end of the Civil War in Louisiana.

1865 was a year of transition, as armies surrendered and soldiers and refugees returned to their homes. Four years of fighting had altered the landscape and upended the social order. Presidential policies dominated reconstruction efforts, focusing on restoring the civil rights of former rebels and on giving former slaves the education and employment they needed. The situation was unprecedented, and all parties seemed to have their own strong opinions on what needed to be done.

Exhibit: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927

The new exhibit in the Jefferson Caffery Reading Room examines the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, which inundated 26,000 square miles in seven states, forced nearly 1 million people from their homes and caused more than $400 million in losses. In Louisiana alone, 10,000 square miles in 20 parishes were flooded. The extreme amount of damage was in part due to the levees-only system that had been instituted in the late 1800s.

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