Geographer's Space
On the Shapes of Parishes
. . . and why Tangipahoa is elongated
. . . and why Tangipahoa is elongated
Notes on a topographic peculiarity
Of rivers, shifts, and avulsions
Louisiana, Carolana, and the imperial chess match of 1699
An alternative view of Louisiana’s geographical context
The sojourn of Élisée Reclus
Notes on parish topography
The Toledo Bend Reservoir
New Orleans was nearly relocated to a site near Baton Rouge
The first European look at what became our state
The ancient medical theory behind the Louisiana landscape’s transformation
The origins of Louisiana parish names
Mapping remoteness
Not so high and mighty
Putting the “West” in the West Bank
Fluid feature, fluid meaning
What if Abraham Lincoln had died in an 1828 scuffle?
A cultural region?
Louisiana’s original state line
How the 31st parallel shaped Louisiana
Geographer's Space with Richard Campanella, Episode 9
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A geographic exploration
Geographer's Space with Richard Campanella, Episode 8
Baroque urban planning shaped Baton Rouge
Abe Lincoln’s bloody melee
Bailey’s Dam at the Red River Rapids
A geographical self-assessment
Two centuries ago, commerce and culture moved at the Mississippi’s pace
A possible origin of its name
Geographer's Space with Richard Campanella, Episode 6
Geographer's Space with Richard Campanella, Episode 4
Geographer's Space with Richard Campanella, Episode 2
Geographer's Space with Richard Campanella, Episode 5
Geographer's Space with Richard Campanella, Episode 1
Geographer's Space with Richard Campanella, Episode 7
Geographer's Space with Richard Campanella, Episode 3
The varied lexicon of regional identity
Geographical, economics, and political factors led to siting of New Orleans, other Louisiana cities.
Richard Campanella initiates a cross cultural connection in an interview with French Canadian Lisanne Gamelin
The sculptor of a scandalous statue found a patron in an eccentric New Orleans financier
Lower Louisiana, where elevations may vary only by inches over miles, provides a unique challenge to mapmakers
An investigation of Louisiana’s change from counties to parishes
Unbeknownst to most of the 165,000 people who live above it, a sandy atoll exists beneath greater New Orleans
Distinctive sail boats once defined coastal Louisiana’s oyster trade
Louisiana is the third lowest, third flattest state–and, topographically, among the most fascinating
The cadastral system left cultural fingerprints on Louisiana's landscape
Louisiana is the birthplace of several musical genres, but when locals turn their radios on, something very different is likely to come out
Neutral ground, the New Orleans toponym used for street medians, is a phrase that originated in a territorial dispute in western Louisiana.
Here's where you can find the center of balance around which the population of Louisiana is evenly distributed
As New Orleans prepares to celebrate the 300th anniversary of its founding, geographer Richard Campanella looks back at the city's earlier commemorations
Stars seemed to align for New Orleans’ 250th anniversary in 1968
Relocating a capital city or even government buildings can have dramatic effects on the surrounding area
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