[5] According to the historian B. H. Gilley (1927-2017), formerly of the Louisiana Tech University faculty, "a wealth of research has been written and preserved in [the NLHA] publications".
[13][14][15] Names for the newsletter that might be cited are: Beginning in the Fall of 1969, Morgan D. Peoples of Ruston, then a member of the Louisiana Tech History Department, became the editor and founded the journal.
In April 2024, he succeeded Kathleen Smith, a retired English professor at Louisiana State University in Shreveport.
The printing press for the journal is named in honor of the late Louisiana Tech professor and regional historian John Ardis Cawthon.
[22] Louisiana State University in Shreveport (LSUS) supports the journal with office space and a dedicated library collection as part of the LSUS Archives and Special Collections at the Noel Memorial Library, including an online list of journal articles.