Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...of the strengths of this relational methodology resides in its juxtaposition of disparate objects. These juxtapositions not only highlight the connections among seemingly distinct historical phenomenon; they also bring into...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...the open window on the cemetery side, I drowsed as Preacher Lusk gripped his Bible like a bat snagged from the pentecostal gloom. In that room where heat clabbered like...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...history, the smartphone-friendly tour provides GPS directions and mapping, historical information about each of its twelve stops, and multimedia content including video and historical images. It requires no download and...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...Confederate History Month pronouncements, and reenactments of Jefferson Davis’s inauguration steal headlines. It is hard to read the mind of this South. Richmond Times-Dispatch, Display at the Civil War Centennial...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...History of Science. His dissertation focuses on how yellow fever shaped the medical imagination and development of antebellum New Orleans. His broader research examines how ecology and geography intersect with period...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...http://www.emory.edu/home/university/global-health.html; Dave Huddleston, "Atlanta's HIV 'epidemic' compared to third world African countries," WSB-TV, May 6, 2016, http://www.wsbtv.com/news/2-investigates/atlantas-hiv-epidemic-compared-to-third-world-african-countries/263337845. This Southern Spaces series examines public health in rural and industrializing places around...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...denying him the realization of his anticolonial ambitions, is now setting the nation's agenda through the reincarnation of his dreams in his son." Thus, one can understand the president only...
Seneca Quarry
...The ARC Identifier is 3025595, MLR Number A1 18. Congratulations are in order for Professor Mark Auslander for publishing his well researched and excellent article, "Enslaved Labor and Building the...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...describing how Pope had used his fortune to reshape the Republican Party into a reflection of his anti-government, pro-corporate policies. While supporters insist that his success is a triumph of...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...later imprisoned in Georgia for his political activity, recounted his brutal detainment in the wake of the Shades Mountain attack. Birmingham police, he wrote in his 1937 autobiography Let Me...