Higher Ground - Author Interview on WWNO's The Sound of Books with Fred Kasten on December 7, 2011

Tout Bec Doux - Article in New Orleans Gambit on November 29, 2011

Creole Genesis - Mention in The Independent (Lafayette, LA) on November 16, 2011

Tout Bec Doux - Review in The Advertiser (Lafayette, LA) on November 13, 2011

Higher Ground - Review in the New Orleans Times-Picayune on November 13, 2011

Higher Ground - Author Interview on Southern Literary Review's website on November 11, 2011

Higher Ground - Blog about author's speech at the Faulkner Festival in New Orleans on November 10, 2011

Higher Ground - Review on Southern Literary Review's website on November 7, 2011

Higher Ground - Author Interview on WWNO's The Reading Life on November 1, 2011

Congo Square: African Roots in New Orleans - Cover Story in Fall 2011 issue of Louisiana Cultural Vistas magazine

Higher Ground - Author Interview on MyNewOrleans.com August 2011

Higher Ground - Author Interview with Superstition Review Fall 2010

Congo Square: African Roots in New Orleans -- Author Interview on Good Morning New Orleans on April 27, 2011

Congo Square: African Roots in New Orleans -- Review in The Independent (Lafayette) on April 27, 2011

Congo Square: African Roots in New Orleans -- Article on Times-Picayune website on April 27, 2011

Congo Square: African Roots in New Orleans -- Author interview on WWNO's The Reading Life on April 26, 2011

Earl Long in Purgatory -- Interview on WWNO's "The Reading Life" on March 29, 2011 

In Ordinary Light - Review in Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) on March 6, 2011

Local Hope -- Review that appeared in Appeal Magazine (Texarkana, TX) Feb/Mar 2011 issue and on Rattle.com (poetry journal) on Feb. 25, 2011

In Ordinary Light -- Video of Reading at Baton Rouge Galley on Feb. 20, 2011

Lincoln in New Orleans - Interview/Review in Times-Picayune (New Orleans, LA) on Feb. 12, 2011

In Ordinary Light -- Featured Poet for Poetry Daily on December 25, 2010

Lincoln in New Orleans -- Interview on WWNO's The Sound of Books on December 22, 2010

Louisiana Hwy. 1 -- Author Interview on HoumaToday.com on November 5, 2010

Louisiana Hwy. 1 -- Red River Radio (Shreveport, LA) on October 18, 2010

New Orleans: What Can't Be Lost -- The Independent on September 8, 2010

New Orleans: What Can't Be Lost -- "Good Morning New Orleans" on September 7, 2010

Washed Away? -- Review in 225 Magazine (Baton Rouge, LA) on September 1, 2010

New Orleans: What Can't Be Lost -- offBeat Magazine review on September 1, 2010

New Orleans: What Can't Be Lost -- Times-Picayune review on August 29, 2010

Local Hope -- KEDM (Monroe, LA) on August 11, 2010

Jim Garrison's Bourbon Street Brawl -- The Jim Engster Show

Washed Away? -- The Jim Engster Show

Washed Away? -- The Independent (Lafayette, LA) cover story on June 9, 2010

Washed Away? -- Times-Picayune review on June 2, 2010

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University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press Title Awarded Prestigious Williams Prize

Lincoln in New Orleans reconstructs, to levels of detail and analyses never before attempted, the nature of Lincoln’s two flatboat journeys and examines their influence on Lincoln’s life, presidency, and subsequent historiography. It also sheds light on river commerce and New Orleans in the antebellum era, because, as exceptional as Lincoln later came to be, he was entirely archetypal of the Western rivermen of his youth who traveled regularly between the “upcountry” and the Queen City of the South. 

Featuring new data sources, historical photos, and custom-made analytical maps and graphs, Lincoln in New Orleans brings new knowledge to one of the least-known but most influential episodes in Lincoln’s life.

Richard Campanella is the author of five critically acclaimed books, including Bienville’s Dilemma (2008) and Geographies of New Orleans (2006). A research professor at Tulane University and associate director of the Center for Bioenvironmental Research, Campanella has won two Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year awards, two New Orleans-Gulf South Booksellers Association awards, four Best Book selections from the New Orleans Times-Picayune, and the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Newcomb College Institute of Tulane University.

 

UL Press Titled Name 2010 Humanities Book of the Year Award

UL Press author Richard Campanella was recently awarded the 2010 Humanities Book of the Year Award for "Bienville’s Dilemma: A Historical Geography of New Orleans." Given by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, the Humanities Book of the Year Award is bestowed yearly upon a book that best exemplifies scholarship on Louisiana topics or by Louisiana writers. This is the second time for both Campanella and UL Press to receive this honor with Campanella’s "Geographies of New Orleans: Urban Fabrics before the Storm" named the 2007 recipient.

“Writing about historical geography is a challenge because the story constantly moves in multiple directions (time and space), and involves the physical environment as well as humans and their ‘built’ environment,” says Campanella. “I’d like to interpret these two LEH Book of the Year awards as an indication that my approach to his torical geography does justice to that challenge. It’s particularly an honor for me as a geographer with a background in the mapping sciences to win two awards in the humanities.”

A Tulane University geographer, Richard Campanella is the author of four books as well as book chapters and articles in numerous publications. Campanella’s publications have won a combined four Book of the Year awards from the Louisiana Endowment of the Humanities and the New Orleans-Gulf South Booksellers Association, four Best Books selections from the New Orleans Times-Picayune, and critical praise in the Journal of Southern History, Journal of Urban Histor y, Places Journal, Bloomsbury Review, and elsewhere. His current work, "Lincoln in New Orleans," will be published by UL Press in late 2010. Richard and his wife, Marina, live in downtown New Orleans.