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LSUS Professor Writes New Book on the Louisiana Purchase
June 23, 2026
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, June 23 -- Louisiana State University Shreveport campus issued the following news:

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LSUS professor writes new book on the Louisiana Purchase

By Matt Vines

SHREVEPORT - Many know the basics of the Louisiana Purchase - the historic land deal with France in 1803 that essentially doubled the size of the United States overnight.

The $15 million acquisition totaled nearly one million square miles of land that . . .

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