Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...RIGHT QUADRANT — Personal hazards. BOTTOM QUADRANT — Number of live and dead victims still inside the structure. ["0" = no victims] National Urban Search and Rescue (US&R) Response System,...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...value. The deforestation that accompanied colonial farming practices allowed opossum populations to increase by driving away foxes, wolves, and other predators and by enabling grass and seed-eating mammals, such as...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...ways to go about studying the things that I am interested in: Whitman, Richmond, nationalism, and nineteenth-century American culture and history. It’s also a way to pay the bills, which...
The Carolina Piedmont
...of the Atlanta and Richmond Air-Line Railway offered a direct route from New York to New Orleans and further shifted the region's orientation away from the Carolina coast. Cotton agriculture,...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...way we inhabit places, an intellectual project that would, years later, change the way I looked at my hometown of Spartanburg, and possibly even change the way it looked at...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...way: understanding Cuba as a potential interlocutor regarding sustainable agriculture. New voices call for dialogue between US and Cuban citizens engaged in a burgeoning organic farm and garden movement in...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...Unearthing their worlds sheds light on a distinct history of emancipation that did not fully align with liberalism's trajectory, pushing us to move away from the teleological notion that modern...
The Shenandoah Valley
...the same ways as their neighbors in the Valley throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Menu on the Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, 1960. Courtesy of the New York...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...at the crossroads of the railroad and U.S. 11, just off the highway, a place where the growing number of mexicano workers can send envios of money home. I grew...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...