COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) branch chief who served in the agency's COVID-19 response from late March through June 2020, the profusion of "lessons learned" reflects the magnitude...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...connections and how we might use digital technology in the service of our scholarship is a topic queer historian John Howard explores in "Digital Oral History," where he writes, "Digital...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...the African American and low-income white neighborhoods of West Anniston. Reproduced from Baptized in PCBs, 76. Courtesy of Ellen Spears. During World War II, the Chemical Warfare Service set up...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...© United States Postal Service. By reframing the history of coastal Carolina, Mulcahy succeeds in rendering "both the Lowcountry and the islands less anomalous within the larger context of colonial...
Social Justice Environmentalism
Essay In a 2017 essay, National Museum of African American History and Culture director Lonnie Bunch noted that, like much of black history, environmental activism by people of color is...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...notion of South Carolina hospitality, since colonial Charleston proved so welcoming to new maladies. The busy port soon became, in the author’s apt image, “a convention center for diseases of...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...found one in Port Townsend. But the scene I found was not centered in publications so much as publishing, printing, and a type of emerging social West Coast activism I...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...or modern conveniences or jobs behind for the seeming purity of rural areas, trading the modern for the "exotic," "abandoning the centers of capitalist development for some 'elsewhere' that keeps...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...have ground the cockroach into oblivion, had it shown up during one of her childhood church services on back porches and in farm wagons, but, having known her for many years,...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...in Atlanta, and the Firehouse Center for the Arts in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Group shows have included exhibitions at the Fort Point Art Center, the Essex Art Center, the Griffin Center...