What Might Have Happened at Manchac
Geographer’s Space with Richard Campanella, Episode 11
Articles
Iron Sharpens Iron
New film chronicles a Plaquemines Parish community’s struggles against racism, industrial encroachment, and extreme weather
Today’s News
The Changing Role of the Black Press in Louisiana Life
What's at Stake?
A Conversation on Culture and the Changing Coast
After Ida
Exploring cultural preservation during climate change
A Reading from Mona Lisa Saloy
The new Louisiana Poet Laureate presents her first public reading in the position
Bright Lights Online: Pat Austin
Sarah DeBacher in conversation with 2021 Light Up for Literacy awardee Pat Austin
Bright Lights Online: Remembering Frank de Caro
A conversation among folklorists
Bright Lights Online: Katrina, a History
Historian Andy Horowitz's book Katrina, A History: 1915–2015 is the 2021 Humanities Book of the Year
Bright Lights Online: Abdul Aziz
In conversation with C. J. Hunt
Bright Lights Online: Carol Bebelle
In conversation with Kelly Harris-DeBerry
Bright Lights Online: Slate's Slow Burn
Slate's Slow Burn podcast told the story of white nationalist David Duke's rise and gubernatorial run
The Ledger and the Chain
In conversation with Joshua Rothman
A Conversation between Martha Jones and Leslie Harris
Jones and Harris discuss Jones's book Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Poetry
Poetry in a Pandemic
Discussing the ways poetry can help the spirit in these disruptive times
Breaking Ground
A conversation on French colonial-era archaeological sites in New Orleans
Geographer's Space
One Night in Louisiana
What if Abraham Lincoln had died in an 1828 scuffle?
The Winnsboro Easter Rock
A Baptist tradition with West African roots
Irván and Alvin Pérez Perform a Décima on Rendez-Vous des Cajuns
A clip from a 1987 broadcast of the variety show Rendez-Vous des Cajuns with host Barry Jean Ancelet and guests Irván and Alvin Pérez
Bousillage
In Prairie des Femmes, Louisiana, in the spring of 2007, a group of friends gathered to demonstrate a traditional French Louisiana building technique
Bright Lights Online: Solitary
A Conversation with author and Angola 3 member Albert Woodfox and artist Jackie Sumell
Bright Lights Online: Keeping Cajun
A Conversation with Warren Perrin and Josh Caffery
Bright Lights Online: LSU Press as Champion of Louisiana Culture
Publishing Louisiana
Bright Lights Online: Coushatta Cultural Legacies
A Conversation with Lifetime Contributions to the Humanities Honorees Bertney and Linda Langley with Dr. Denise Bates
Bright Lights Online: Charles Lovell
The 2020 Michael P. Smith Award for Documentary Photography awardee in conversation with Gwen Thompkins
Laureates Online with Ava Leavell Haymon
Ava Leavell Haymon reads our final entry in Laureates Online as part of National Poetry Month
Laureates Online with Julie Kane
64 Parishes presents Laureates Online, a series marking National Poetry Month with virtual readings
Laureates Online with Jack Bedell
64 Parishes presents Laureates Online, a series marking National Poetry Month with virtual readings
Laureates Online with John Warner Smith
64 Parishes presents Laureates Online, a series marking National Poetry Month with virtual readings
Geographer's Space
Gretna's Mechanickham
Geographer's Space with Richard Campanella, Episode 9
Geographer's Space
Grandeur on Government Street
Geographer's Space with Richard Campanella, Episode 8
Foraging Wild Sassafras
64 Parishes heads to Kisatchie National Forest to forage for wild sassafras, from which filé is made, with John Colson and Dustin Fuqua.
WaterWays Film Series Trailer
Introduction to the WaterWays film series, a project of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, supported by a grant from the Walton Family Foundation
Born on the Bayou
Wendell Curole, General Manager of the South Lafourche Levee District, takes us on a journey through his parish, introducing us to his neighbors and the public works along the levee critical to preserving his home and culture.
Diversions
In Plaquemines Parish, the need to build sustainable land is dire.
Keepers of the Mound
Louisiana’s coast is dotted with hundreds of mounds built long ago by indigenous people and now threatened by coastal erosion.
Station 15
A tour of a New Orleans pumping station as seen through the eyes of Chasity, a teenage resident of the city.
Geographer's Space
Cadastral Systems of Louisiana
Geographer's Space with Richard Campanella, Episode 6
Geographer's Space
Neutral Ground
Geographer's Space with Richard Campanella, Episode 4
Geographer's Space
Bivalvial Byways
Geographer's Space with Richard Campanella, Episode 2
Geographer's Space
Centroids
Geographer's Space with Richard Campanella, Episode 5
Geographer's Space
Up From the Deltaic Plain
Geographer's Space with Richard Campanella, Episode 1
Geographer's Space
Location, Location, Location
Geographer's Space with Richard Campanella, Episode 7
Geographer's Space
The Pine Island Trend
Geographer's Space with Richard Campanella, Episode 3
Hand Grenade History
The Hot 8 Brass Band
As Told By Themselves
Interview: Captain "Doc" Hawley of the Steamboat NATCHEZ
Captain Clarke "Doc" Hawley recalls forty years on the river
A Conversation with Christian Scott
Sustaining culture, stretching music
An Interview with Governor Kathleen Blanco
2015 Louisiana Governors Project
Fall 2015
An Interview with Governor Mike Foster
The former governor reflects on his time in office
An Interview with Governor Buddy Roemer
"Fast, focused, flexible, and friendly. Those are the four Fs."
An Interview with Governor Edwin Edwards
2015 Louisiana Governors Project
