Tomorrow is Astronomy Day, a national event founded in 1973 "to increase public awareness about astronomy and our wonderful universe." The weekend weather forecast in Baton Rouge doesn't look so great for stargazing, so if the skies don't clear up, we hope you'll stop by Special Collections and have

Louisianians (or Luisianeses ) and Their Hill Documents Featured in Hispanic Americans in Congress, 1822-2012 A recent publication by the U.S. Government Printing Office offers further glimpses into how Louisiana and its citizens ( Luisiana and Luisianeses in Spanish) have figured in the Hispanic

Most boxing fans remember New Orleans as the site of the famous Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Roberto Durán “No Más Fight” in the Superdome on November 25, 1980, but in the late nineteenth century, the Crescent City stood as one of the major centers of American prizefighting, long before the rise of Las