The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities has been headquartered at Turners' Hall in the Central Business District of New Orleans since 2007.
This historic building was built in 1868 by the Society of Turners as a social club for German-American citizens.
[6] Recent Humanists of the year have included musician Terence Blanchard, poet Darrell Bourque, chef and civil rights activist Leah Chase, artist William Joyce, and musician Zachary Richard.
In 2021, the Louisiana Endowment honored Louisiana State University professor Joyce Marie Jackson with its Lifetime Contributions to the Humanities award for her enhancement of the understanding of African American culture and music, sacred and secular rituals in Africa and the diaspora.
[9] As part of the Chronicling America program, during the period 2008 – 2012, it digitized approximately 100,000 pages of historic newspapers with publication years between 1860 and 1922, including the Natchitoches Times and the Feliciana Sentinel.