Writing Appalachia
...say "Appalachia"? Geographically and conceptually, debate over this question runs high. Appalachian Counties Served by ARC (Appalachian Regional Commission), October 8, 2008. Map created by and courtesy of ARC. Merely...
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...tidal creeks, and human-built structures on the south end of Sapelo Island include flooding of a road at high tide. 1:40 – Part of the same salt marsh at low...
Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
...studies, public health, and digital humanities. The publications collected in the "Indigenous Souths" educational resource—for example, Sarah H. Hill's expansive studies of Native Removal in Rome and Ellijay, Georgia—stand at...
St. Catherines Island Flyover
Video and Essay One of the barrier islands along the Georgia coast of the Atlantic Ocean, St. Catherines has an extraordinary ecological and settlement history. First inhabited more than four...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...and brutality. This version of human bondage, nurtured in Charleston and fostered by proponents in the former Confederate states as part of the Lost Cause tradition, has had broad white...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...suramericanos de Perú, Venezuela y Colombia.4Mary E. Odem and Elaine Lacy, Latino Immigration and the Transformation of the U.S. South (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009): ix-xxvii. La gente maya...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...días peores; (the worst days will come;) tendremos que ir desfilando. (we'll have to run off.)20Anonymous, "La invasión Yanqui," in La poesía popular en Puerto Rico, edited by María Cadilla...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...a critical mass in New Orleans. He believed marijuana "was as habit forming as morphine or cocaine" and that "constant smoking will ruin the health."12"New Drug Habit Rapidly Growing, Health...
Seeing Sound: Mapping Florentine Soundscapes
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Niall Atkinson is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago. His publications include The Noisy...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...to glorify the Confederacy can be valid for it was founded upon . . . slavery . . . the most immoral of all human relations.” The NAACP urged that...