Tag: 1812

  • How a Bluff and a Battle Shaped New Orleans

    How a Bluff and a Battle Shaped New Orleans

    New Orleans. Lawrence N. Powell calls it “The Accidental City” in his book of the same name. Peirce Lewis memorably named it “an impossible but inevitable city” in his book, New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape. Both men have a point. New Orleans was and is a very unlikely place. We sit in…