Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...new masters would fare better in realizing New Orleans's potential.3Johann Friedrich Nonne, eds. Neue Allgemeine Weltbühne Auf Das Jahr 1804, (Erfurt, Germany: Johann Friedrich Nonne, 1804), 499; Thank you to Alexander...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...Modern World, 1780–1914 (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2004), 199. Battle cults and cycloramic images of famous war scenes, which flourished first in France and Germany, were among the influential transnational...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...on the face before and after Salvarsan, Germany, ca. 1910. Image courtesy of Wellcome Trust Medical Photographic Library. Creative Commons license CC BY 4.0. Bottom, Wax models showing the effects...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...African society, later leavened with immigrants from the American South, Germany, Ireland, and Italy, among many other sources. New Orleans, as a cultural and social order created from these diversities...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
Introduction to the Battle of Atlanta Project Confederate and Union troops in close combat, Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama, Atlanta, Georgia, 1886. Painting by the American Panorama Company. The fall of...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
Preface On a muggy Sunday afternoon in June of 1959, John Cohen wandered the winding mountain roads of eastern Kentucky searching for old-time musicians. Neon, Bulan, Vicco, Viper, Daisy, Defiance...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...an immigrant to the region noted the seed varieties she transported from Germany to the Missouri Ozarks in cloth bags and paper seed packets: . . . three kinds of...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...since the 1970s, spreading to the United Kingdom and Canada in the mid-1990s, and then to Poland, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, and the Czech Republic since 2008. Many participants in...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...why some are ready to enter in coalitions with both right and left political parties, as is the case in Germany and Austria. From a left populist perspective, the more...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...in Berlin-Darlem, Germany in 1926. During his professorship at the Kanazawa Medical University in Japan, he focused on biostatistics and anthropometry: specifically, research on tuberculosis among the rural Japanese and...