The Chesapeake Bay
...evidence complements the record. Recent environmental histories of the region stress the interrelationship between human settlement and activity and environmental systems and processes. Liam Gumley. Chesapeake Bay, Space Science and...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...city's suburban rings that came to comprise the metropolitan area. In recent decades, those suburban rings have seen significant growth in their black populations, though Sibley's area of north Fulton...
The Liminal Site
...much as the site itself did: the classic exile's garden.9For what is quite possibly the definitive treatment of diasporic gardening, see Sarah Casteel's remarkable recent book Second Arrivals (Charlottesville: University...
Remnants of Flannery
...mount a production of The Violent Bear It Away and a television series based on her short stories. Irish filmmaker John Michael McDonagh has also recently stated that he plans...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...descent. With collections numbering in excess of ten million items including books, manuscripts, correspondence, personal and professional papers of individuals, archived records of Africana institutions and organizations, as well as...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...persistence." Hundreds of scientists have contributed to the development of WWF's Conservation Science Program and identified over 800 distinct terrestrial ecoregions across the globe.1Robert G. Bailey, Description of the Ecoregions...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...Political Economy of Southern Racism (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987). Georgia had the second highest number of lynchings from 1890–1900.75Susan Olzak, "The Political Context of Competition: Lynching and Urban Racial...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...acknowledged: say, the prejudice against blacks, Untouchables, gays, Muslims, Jews, conquered indigenous populations, recent immigrants, women, and other "minorities." It refers to calculated behavior that we sometimes condemn—when we notice...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...the Mexican-American War (1846–1848) to the more recent Cuban American writing of the 1980s–90s. He invests substantial energy in altering the grand, exceptionalist narrative of southern literary studies, which goes...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...T-shirt shops and ice cream parlors. Sightseers ride trolleys, visit wax museums and the original Ripley's Believe It or Not, patronize "authentically old" and recently constructed sites. The Excelsior Museum...