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Roger Busbice

Roger Busbice is a resident of Morgan City, Louisiana. A magna cum laude graduate of Louisiana Tech in 1969, he holds a master's in Social Studies Education/History and has thirty hours above the master's. Busbice served as a teacher, principal, supervisor of instruction, and director of personnel for the St. Mary Parish public school system; and taught for Nicholls State University and for the Louisiana State University Lagniappe Program as an adjunct instructor of history. From 1992-1995, he was the archivist and historian for Louisiana's Old State Capitol. Later, as Director of Legal Services for Associated Professional Educators of Louisiana, a conservative teachers group he helped found, Busbice created the annual American Studies Conference in Baton Rouge to promote traditionalism in social studies. He has published numerous articles, essays, and book reviews. Now retired, Busbice currently serves as State Commander of the Louisiana Society of the Military Order of the Stars & Bars.

Huey Long’s Potlikker Recipe Blog

Huey Long’s Potlikker Recipe

In Louisiana history and folklore, Huey Pierce Long occupies a very special niche.  To be depressingly brief, he was born and reared in north-central Louisiana’s hardscrabble Winn Parish where, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, contrariness, populism and socialism were dominant.  Charismatic and unscrupulous but unquestionably brilliant, Huey secured a law degree and entered politics.  With a knack…
Roger Busbice
January 28, 2016
The “Fighting Bishop” of Louisiana Blog

The “Fighting Bishop” of Louisiana

Leonidas Polk was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1806, the son and grandson of Revolutionary War heroes. His family was of Presbyterian Scots-Irish descent and had become successful in the plantation economy of the colonial South. His cousin, James K. Polk, later became President of the United States. In his late teens, Leonidas received an appointment to the United…
Roger Busbice
May 6, 2014