Environmental setting -- Previous cultural resource investigations in the vicinity of Fort Polk -- Prehistoric settlement analyses and predictive modeling in west-central Louisiana -- The 1988 and ...

This story has been updated with additional information. Vernon Parish's Fort Johnson, which had its name changed less than two years ago after a federal commission suggested new names for military ...

In 2023, when the U.S. Department of Defense changed of the name of Fort Polk to remove the stain of honoring a Confederate, slaveholding Episcopal bishop, many in Louisiana railed against the move.