Geographer's Space
On the Shapes of Parishes
. . . and why Tangipahoa is elongated
Articles
Geographer's Space
Louisiana’s Place in the Below-Sea-Level World
Notes on a topographic peculiarity
Summer 2024
The Moncla Gap
Of rivers, shifts, and avulsions
Spring 2024
Colonial Hubris
Louisiana, Carolana, and the imperial chess match of 1699
Winter 2023
Of Basins and Watersheds
An alternative view of Louisiana’s geographical context
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Louisiana as Scholarly Inspiration
The sojourn of Élisée Reclus
Summer 2023
Why Is Grand Isle in Jefferson Parish?
Notes on parish topography
Spring 2023
Sportsman’s Paradise, or Paradise Lost?
The Toledo Bend Reservoir
Winter 2022
What Might Have Happened at Manchac
New Orleans was nearly relocated to a site near Baton Rouge
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Louisiana before Louisiana
The first European look at what became our state
Summer 2022
Getting (Away from) the Vapors
The ancient medical theory behind the Louisiana landscape’s transformation
Spring 2022
Saints, Tribes, and Kings
The origins of Louisiana parish names
Winter 2021
Unpeopled Louisiana
Mapping remoteness
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Louisiana Hill Country
Not so high and mighty
Summer 2021
Putting the “West” in the West Bank
Putting the “West” in the West Bank
Spring 2021
On That Word “Delta”
Fluid feature, fluid meaning
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One Night in Louisiana
What if Abraham Lincoln had died in an 1828 scuffle?
Winter 2020
Louisiana’s Loess Bluffs
A cultural region?
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Top of the Boot
Louisiana’s original state line
Summer 2020
Ellicott’s Line
How the 31st parallel shaped Louisiana
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Gretna's Mechanickham
Geographer's Space with Richard Campanella, Episode 9
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COVID Geography: Notes from New Orleans
This special quarantine issue of Geographer’s Space is produced in partnership with LSU Press
Spring 2020
New Orleans Prisons
A geographic exploration
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Grandeur on Government Street
Geographer's Space with Richard Campanella, Episode 8
Summer 2018
Grandeur on Government Street
Baroque urban planning shaped Baton Rouge
Winter 2019
One Night in Louisiana
Abe Lincoln’s bloody melee
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Hydrology at War
Bailey’s Dam at the Red River Rapids
Summer 2019
Putting the “64” in 64 Parishes
A geographical self-assessment
Spring 2019
The Speed of Culture
Two centuries ago, commerce and culture moved at the Mississippi’s pace
Winter 2018
Gretna’s Mechanickham
A possible origin of its name
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Cadastral Systems of Louisiana
Geographer's Space with Richard Campanella, Episode 6
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Neutral Ground
Geographer's Space with Richard Campanella, Episode 4
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Bivalvial Byways
Geographer's Space with Richard Campanella, Episode 2
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Centroids
Geographer's Space with Richard Campanella, Episode 5
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Up From the Deltaic Plain
Geographer's Space with Richard Campanella, Episode 1
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Location, Location, Location
Geographer's Space with Richard Campanella, Episode 7
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The Pine Island Trend
Geographer's Space with Richard Campanella, Episode 3
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Is Louisiana in the South?
The varied lexicon of regional identity
Spring 2018
Location, Location, Location
Geographical, economics, and political factors led to siting of New Orleans, other Louisiana cities.
Winter 2017
The French Language in Louisiana and Quebec
Richard Campanella initiates a cross cultural connection in an interview with French Canadian Lisanne Gamelin
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The Odyssey of the Greek Slave
The sculptor of a scandalous statue found a patron in an eccentric New Orleans financier
Summer 2017
A Louisiana Forte
Lower Louisiana, where elevations may vary only by inches over miles, provides a unique challenge to mapmakers
Spring 2017
A Mysterious Switch
An investigation of Louisiana’s change from counties to parishes
Winter 2016
Beneath New Orleans, A Coastal Barrier Island
Unbeknownst to most of the 165,000 people who live above it, a sandy atoll exists beneath greater New Orleans
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Lugger Culture
Distinctive sail boats once defined coastal Louisiana’s oyster trade
Summer 2016
Top of the Hill
Louisiana is the third lowest, third flattest state–and, topographically, among the most fascinating
Spring 2016
Arpents, Ligas, and Acres
The cadastral system left cultural fingerprints on Louisiana's landscape
Winter 2015
Louisiana Radio Stations and the (Inconvenient) Local Music Lacuna
Louisiana is the birthplace of several musical genres, but when locals turn their radios on, something very different is likely to come out
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“Neutral Ground”
Neutral ground, the New Orleans toponym used for street medians, is a phrase that originated in a territorial dispute in western Louisiana.
Summer 2015
Is Tiger Stadium the Center of Louisiana?
Here's where you can find the center of balance around which the population of Louisiana is evenly distributed
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Preparing for 2018
As New Orleans prepares to celebrate the 300th anniversary of its founding, geographer Richard Campanella looks back at the city's earlier commemorations
Winter 2013
Preparing For 2018 by Revisiting 1968
Stars seemed to align for New Orleans’ 250th anniversary in 1968
Winter 2014
How "Forward Thrust" Reshaped Southern Geography
Relocating a capital city or even government buildings can have dramatic effects on the surrounding area
