Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...from the stone quarries. —Zbigniew Herbert, "Classic."1Zbigniew Herbert, Collected Poems, 1956–1968 (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), 141. Thanks to Allen Tullos for suggesting this apt quote. Carol M. Highsmith, Smithsonian Institution...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...monthly payments can mean the difference between destitution and modest survival.4This estimate of the number of black lung beneficiaries is extrapolated from data on the number of claims filed each...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...experiences. The book concludes with an overview of the American Revolution's dissolution of the trade that led to revised concepts of American geography. With little or no deerskin trade, new...
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
...Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World, and many other books. For his work, he has received the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, the American...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...Dasgupta, "New Geospatial Bill Raises Questions on Private Industry Use, Academic Research, and Digital India." The Wired (May 10, 2016): http://thewire.in/35044/new-geospatial-bill-raises-a-hundred-questions-on-private-industry-use-academic-research-and-digital-india/. A New Map of Africa, the Latest Authorities, 1811....
Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
John Vachon, Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas, 1943. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Color Photographs Collection, LC-USW36-839. Southern Spaces recently added six new images to the...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...shift is evidenced in our present moment by such organizations as Creative Time, the Public Art Fund, and Flux Projects. Based in New York, Creative Time states that it strives...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...of the same tools stay in its toolbox, but these digital methods add a new dimension to what our goals have always been. Digital History and the "Virginia Diaspora" What...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...struggle to resettle, build new homes, plant new gardens, and learn about new weather patterns. It demanded a reimagination of who the Cherokee were, how they connected to the world,...
Good-Bye to All That?
...haven't read political coverage in a newspaper, and I've tuned out television, magazine, and internet post-mortems. Nor, after decades as a political news junkie, have I any desire to follow...