Thomas E. Patterson, a Chicago lawyer, is the author of a new biography of Huey Long published by LSU Press. It’s called "American Populist: Huey Long of Louisiana.” Promotional materials describe it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on Sept. 9, 1935. Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Sept. 8, 2024. A look ...

Tiger Stadium is turning 100, and to celebrate we’re continuing our series about the historic venue. Today, we’ll hear from members of the cheer squad and color guard to learn how they keep up the ...

On November 15, New Orleans voters will go to the polls for the second time this fall. Earlier this week, we discussed the race for clerk of criminal court and the city council positions still at play ...

Louisiana’s Huey Long was as close to a dictator as any American governor has ever been. (Library of Congress) The chief justice “has made his decision, now let him enforce it.” President Andrew ...

In a few short years in the 1920s and ‘30s, Gov. Huey Long turned LSU into a nationally recognized institution of higher learning, but he nearly ruined it with his heavy hand, according to a retired ...

While Huey Pierce Long was being buried at Baton Rouge last week the Press found time to take stock of painful inadvertencies caused by his assassination: ¶ Judge, funnybook, had almost finished its ...