Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...even though they clearly pointed to high PCB levels among the poor and working-class families living near the plant. Monsanto Chemical Company, Anniston, Alabama, 1940. Postcard by EC Kropp Company....
The Liminal Site
...the Park Problems, Needs, and Opportunities of the City and its Immediate Surroundings (Birmingham: Park and Recreation Board of Birmingham, 1925), 12. Reprinted by the Birmingham Historical Society, 2005. "It...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...Times, Aug. 14, 1912, 1. Dredging operations for Bayboro Harbor, 1910. Image courtesy of Times Publishing Company. The creek's industrialization had begun. In 1913 the dredgers worked their way further...
Good-Bye to All That?
...I would have gleaned from reading a dozen books on the subject. Location of Transylvania County in North Carolina (top) and location of the Pisgah Forest Precinct in Transylvania County,...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...Carolina Press, 1935, 1991 reprint). or the Farm Security Administration (FSA) images of Walker Evans, Elmer Johnson, and Marion Post Wolcott, or photojournalists' frontline depictions of the War on Poverty,...
Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
...ca. 1938–1945. Photograph by United States Public Health Services Office of Malaria Control in War Areas, Melvin H. Goodwin papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University. Housed in...
Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
...in Việt Nam. Photo courtesy of the author. My grandfather, Đỗ Phương Anh, was born on July 3, 1935, in the Quảng Bình province of Central Việt Nam during the...
Deep Ellum Blues
...L. McDonald, Dallas Rediscovered: A Photographic Chronicle of Urban Expansion, 1870-1925 (Dallas: The Dallas Historical Society, 1978), v. Almost nothing, neither geography nor government, constrained the growth of the city, and it...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...History of Environmental Racism in the United States (New York: New York University Press, 2015); Mark Fiege, The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States (Seattle: University...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...Waldo Emerson and Waldo Emerson Forbes (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909), 177, quoted in Len Gougeon, Virtue's Hero: Emerson, Antislavery, and Reform (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990), 33. Henry L....