Submission Guidelines
...importance of work emerging from legal studies, public policy, and human rights, as well as research on public health, environmental justice, and medical humanities. Scholars in media studies, performance studies,...
The Chesapeake Bay
...human systems and the close interaction between environmental shifts and human societal, economic, and even political change. The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States and its...
Residues of Border Control
...do not show encounters between Border Patrol officers and migrants, but they depict the rubber gloves and bullet casings. They do not follow immigrants into detention, but register the residue—detention...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...meaning of sovereignty resulted in the forced relocation of the entire nation of Cherokee Indians. Costly in terms of government expense, human suffering, and public trust, it was a conflict...
The Colonialist's Gaze
...Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. All images and quotes are from the original field books, which are located in the following archives...
Editors
...J. Roscigno, Ohio State University Jacqueline Rouse, Georgia State University Anne Sarah Rubin, University of Maryland-Baltimore County Wanda Rushing, University of Memphis Emily Satterwhite, Virginia Tech University Claudio Saunt, University...
Quilting Conversation
...working in New York in the 1970s, thanks in part to a 1971 exhibition at the Whitney Museum, Abstract Design in American Quilts, that put historical quilts in conversation with...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...expected to rule whether the "burdens of preclearance" on our federal system of government outweigh the continuing burden of southern history with regard to race. The decision will have a...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...of Design. Boone works at the overlap between landscape architecture and environmental justice with specializations in democratic design, digital media, and interpreting cultural landscapes. He serves on the Board of...
Brushes with War
...setting—SAAM's home in the Old Patent Office—could not have been more appropriate. Walt Whitman called the stately edifice, designed by Charleston-born architect Robert Mills, "that noblest of Washington buildings." He...