TALL PROGRAM

The Tulane Alumni Lifelong Learning (TALL) Initiative, a partnership between the Tulane Alumni Association and the School of Continuing Studies (University College), offers educational programs for all members of the Tulane Community. The free program provides faculty-led sessions on a variety of topics on-campus as well as networking opportunities.

 
Tulane Alumni Lifelong Learning presents

an evening & book signing with Lawrence Powell, Ph.D.

Professor Larry Powell shares and discusses his critically acclaimed book, The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans.

Date: Thursday, May 24, 2012
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Building: Bea Field Alumni House
Location: 6319 Willow Street (corner of Willow & Calhoun)
New Orleans, LA 70118

Lawrence N. Powell, a decades-long resident and observer of New Orleans, gives us the full sweep of the city's history from its founding through Louisiana statehood in 1812.

This is the story of a city that shouldn't exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America's most beguiling metropolis was nothing more than a swamp: prone to flooding, infested with snakes, battered by hurricanes. But through the intense imperial rivalries of Spain, France, and England, and the ambitious, entrepreneurial merchants and settlers from four continents who risked their lives to succeed in colonial America, this unpromising site became a crossroads for the whole Atlantic world.

The Accidental City is the story of land-jobbing schemes, stock market crashes, and nonstop squabbles over status, power, and position, with enough rogues, smugglers, and self-fashioners to fill a picaresque novel. Powell's tale underscores the fluidity and contingency of the past, revealing a place where people made their own history. This is a city, and a history, marked by challenges and perpetual shifts in shape and direction, like the sinuous river on which it is perched.e see the Crescent City evolve from a French village, to an African market town, to a Spanish fortress, and finally to an Anglo-American center of trade and commerce. We hear and feel the mix of peoples, religions, and languages from four continents that make the place electric—and always on the verge of unraveling.

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