The Huey P. Long Bridge, photographed on June 7, 2013, in the final days of a $1.2 billion widening project started in April 2006. The bridge, originally opened December 1935, was widened from two ...

Huey P. Long, historian Arthur Schlesinger explained in a 1986 Ken Burns documentary, was the closest thing to a dictator the U.S. has ever seen.

In “61 Bullets,” Austin filmmakers David Modigliani and Lucy Kreutz revisit the assassination of populist Louisiana politician Huey P. Long.

Louisianans either loved or hated Huey P. Long; there was no middle ground with “the Kingfish.” In the relatively short span between his election as Louisiana governor in 1928 and his death ...

Arguably the most colorful politician in American history, Huey P. Long had an impact far beyond Louisiana and well after his assassination, in 1935. What the writer Hamilton Basso termed “Hueys ...

BATON ROUGE, La. -- BATON ROUGE, La. For his first meeting with presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1932, Huey P. Long dressed in his flamboyant Kingfish mode: plaid suit, purple ...