Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...Solutions for a Post-Petrochemical Culture." The utterly disparate list—tagged with letters that refer to the sections of the Ecological Atlas but are otherwise merely alphabetized—includes everything from consumer choices ("Eco-Friendly...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...was a finalist for the 1995 American Library Association Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Book Award, as well as a finalist for the Firecracker Award in non-fiction. Pratt has also received...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...be those within either the primary city listed in the official MSA name or in other cities listed in the MSA names that have populations of at least 100,000. Suburban...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
Somebody Else, Somewhere Else: The Raymond Andrews Story Somebody Else, Somewhere Else: The Raymond Andrews Story, 2010. I came to the work of Raymond Andrews in 2002, my final year...
Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
Introduction Thomas Mullen is the author of four novels, including The Last Town On Earth (2006), which received the James Fenimore Cooper Prize and was recognized by USA Today as...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
Review Children at Play, Mobile, Alabama, 1956. Photograph 37.002 by Gordon Parks. Courtesy of and copyright by The Gordon Parks Foundation. A grandfather holds his small grandson while his three...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...with much recent scholarship, Karp presents these men, their worldview, and their institutions not as an aberration in the development of the United States or departure from the emerging capitalist...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...of many insights into, for example, military tactics, survival strategies, and commemorative practices. In "The Sounds of Secession," Smith invites readers to listen in to transformations in the Charleston soundscape...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...and the arrival of German immigrants becomes apparent. Why did Germans single out yellow fever among prevalent diseases? After all, as then American diplomat and naturalist David Bailie Warden wrote...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...describe personal relationships. Readings vary from specialist to specialist, and each reading may be valid. Historical geographic information systems (HGIS) and digital maps may also present opportunities to analyze complex...