Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
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A Conversation with Digital Historians
...and they go in opposite directions. One has only become clear to me in the last couple of years. Digital humanities allows us to think about and engage with large...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...Press, 2001), 140. In 1942, the federal government had established the Malaria Control in War Areas (MCWA) agency, headquartered in Georgia and tasked with creating malaria-free zones around military sites....
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...German ‘John R. Jewitt’ at Nootka Sound?” The Initiative for Russian American History, April 2002, www.irah.eu. It's possible that Hülswitt's narrative of his family's bout with yellow fever was an...
Inside Poor Monkey's
Introduction Poor Monkey's sits in a cotton field in Bolivar County, west of the town of Merigold on the Hiter farm, land worked by members of the same family for...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...2014, http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/autopsy-of-the-noise-ordinance/Content?oid=2433600; Alex Woodward, "Mimi's in the Marigny Cancels Live Music; Buffa's Faces 'noise' Lawsuit," Gambit, July 3, 2014, accessed December 19, 2014, http://www.bestofneworleans.com/blogofneworleans/archives/2014/07/03/mimis-in-the-marigny-cancels-live-music-buffas-faces-noise-lawsuit. However, musicians have not ignored this...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...to Use Covid-19 Relief Funds to Build Prisons," CNN, October 1, 2021, https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/01/politics/alabama-covid-relief-prison-bills-signed-governor-kay-ivey/index.html. Despite the uneven distribution of aid, many people, specifically children and elders, moved above the poverty line...
New Website for Music Memory
...concept of scholarly databases. The site will focus upon recordings made during the "Golden Age of roots music" (1925–1950), and the recordings will be digitized primarily from 78 RPM records...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...geography as wild refuge (Figures 19, 20). Images of Appalachia as a sacrifice zone reinforce these norms by presenting the opposite—such as Dobree Adams's active mining sites in Perry County,...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...up of daily logs, filled with short conversations or encounters, and some proto-analysis of what was seen. Fieldnotes are also the site of thick description, which is the act of...