Dr. Carl A. Weiss Jr. died on August 1, 2019. It’s not typically considered newsworthy by the New York Times when a retired orthopedic surgeon passes away at the age of 84, but Weiss was more than a ...

How did Huey P. Long stay in power amid scandals and accusations of corruption and why is his shadow still so hard to escape over eighty years after his death? Just after he was married, in 1913, a 19 ...

Huey Pierce Long: you either loved him, or hated him. He had thousands of adoring fans, and fearful enemies. Long went from traveling salesman to Louisiana Governor, and then US senator, through his ...

Man of the People: The Trials of Huey Long tells the compelling story of Louisiana political icon Huey Long, tracing his journey from a humble salesman to a powerful figure in American politics. This ...

The most populist governor of his time, Huey Long’s colorful, charismatic political career came to an end 85 years ago, when he was shot by an assassin inside the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton ...

LAS VEGAS — Harold Thomas “Huey” Long, formerly of Grand Island, joined his heavenly father on March 5, 2017, in Las Vegas at the age of 92. Beloved husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, ...

It is a long-running game amongst armchair historians to debate which era in American history was most dangerous to our national unity since the Civil War. Certainly the span between the assassination ...

Scan the headlines these days, and it’s easy to assume that civic discourse has seldom been more belligerent. But in a new biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, historian Robert Dallek brings us ...

NEW ORLEANS — Huey P. Long: icon or the closest this country came to having a dictator? Louisiana state historians will renew this debate on Long, “The Kingfish,” in a new museum. The fiery governor ...

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 ...