The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...Bailey K. Ashford immortalized his first hookworm patients in a photograph. The caption reads: "Photograph of a number of natives of Puerto Rico, showing pernicious anemia due to Ankylostoma duodenale."...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...know what WVU is like now, but at that time we had a large number of out of state students, partly because our tuition was so cheap, and the whole...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...places—Atlanta, Georgia. (Before going any further, let me offer an aside: One simple and overly-deterministic answer to the question, "Why Atlanta?" is biographical. As you might have heard tell, Trethewey...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...Alabama, and Haralson, Carroll, and Heard Counties, Georgia. Alabama and Georgia Upcountry Sacred Harp Singings, 1995–2014 Alabama and Georgia Upcountry Sacred Harp Singings, 1995–2014. Interactive Map by Jesse P. Karlsberg...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...Milledgeville Asylum and the Georgia Surreal," Southern Quarterly; Hattiesburg 48, no. 3 (2011): 114–150,158; Segrest, "Exalted on the Ward: 'Mary Roberts,' the Georgia State Sanitarium, and the Psychiatric 'Speciality' of...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...miles) wide. It is located between latitudes 31° 49.5' and 31° 43.2' N. Of the Georgia barrier islands, Ossabaw is the most geologically unusual. Like the major Georgia islands south...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...New Orleans in 2009. http://analytical.chem.wsu.edu/faculty/hillh. Constance Lewis, Atlanta, Georgia. Fine art photographer and gallery owner, independent curator. Lewis’s curatorial projects include the founding of Opal Gallery, an Atlanta based artist...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...stopped at the border. David Romtvedt and John Lane (in hat) as they drove cross country, Springfield, Illinois, 1978. Then in the summer of 1978 I left Spartanburg, South Carolina....
The Cobb County Braves
On Monday, November 11, residents of the city of Atlanta were surprised to learn that their baseball team, the Atlanta Braves, will move to a new suburban stadium in 2017....
Atlanta's T-SPLOST Referendum and Atlanta Studies
...interdisciplinary, multimedia scholarship on the Atlanta metro region—a collection we have titled "Changing Atlanta." Readers interested in such work might also be interested in the new Atlanta Studies Network, which...