Greenfield Farm was once home to Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Faulkner's mules, chickens and other farm animals. The ...

In 1758, the French ethnographer Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz published The History of Louisiana, in which he wrote that the Mississippi River’s name meant “the ancient father of rivers.” ...

Building on the 1920 donation, the library has received thousands of historical photos of steamboats, which played a major role in the development of the Mississippi and its tributaries.