Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...the convention. When yellow fever receded from northern port cities after 1800, “Charleston proved to be a better host than those places,” McCandless quips, “in part because it was warmer...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
Review In this impressive volume edited by Cécile Vidal a collection of historians seek to recover a "marginalized" past (16) within American history. Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
Review Peter Harholdt, Radcliffe Bailey in his studio with Clean Up II, November 2010. Over the last two decades, Radcliffe Bailey has produced some of the most distinctive art in...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...Indies "likely inspired Gabriel [Prosser] and his fellow insurrectionists to secure emancipation through violence" (29). Like Washington and Louverture, Gabriel, when he led a slave rebellion in Richmond in 1800,...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...its factory-town founding in 1872 through its acquisition of the moniker "Toxic Town USA" in 2002. The book reconstructs the history of two "chemical dramas" that played out in Anniston...
Marginalization, Mobility, and Sunday Strolls on the Farm
Megabus Coach USA MCI 102EL3 #29030, August 8, 2006. Photograph by Steinsky. Courtesy of Steinsky. Last Spring, Edward A. Hatfield wrote for Southern Spaces on the challenges of transportation planning...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...visibility and the trauma of military service, as the lead Ángel negotiates the acute pain of the Mariel Boatlift for those that left as well as for those that remained....
Ossabaw Island Flyover
Video and Essay https://vimeo.com/391985688 Ossabaw Island is a barrier island on the Georgia coast. The island, which trends northeast–southwest, is about 14.5 kilometers (9 miles) long and 10.5 kilometers (6.6...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...a comment from a researcher that I hired to track down historical film and video of black Chicago. One day during a phone call she expressed anger and frustration at...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...every burden her life had carried so far, open a room for this new becoming as her body flowed around her man like water. August, 1959: Morning Service Beside...