Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005
Janet Powell, Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005. Located north of Oak Ridge and about thirty miles northwest of Knoxville, Buffalo Mountain Windfarm was built in the 2000s as...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...“shatter zones” such places as Yunnan, the southwestern province of China; the corridor of highland Africa that was safe from slave-raiding; and the Balkans and the Caucasus—and also many sites...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...a biologist. He could have been a lawyer. He could have been a writer. He could have been a public official. But James Holland was needed on the ground, on...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...the USDA discriminated against all poor farmers, southern USDA officials focused on black farmers. The dramatic events of Freedom Summer in 1964 eclipsed an important SNCC initiative to elect black...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...free man of mixed race . . . official painter of maps and perpetual lunar calendars." Courtesy of Arquivo Nacional Torre de Tombo, Lisbonk Portugal. Image provided by the author....
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...that occasion, a flurry of exchanges ensued among several concerned Bunkers, museum curators, and DNA experts. Only six years had elapsed since the official confirmation that Thomas Jefferson had fathered...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...Leavell revisits the site of the logging operation to explain how the loading deck is transformed to a feed plot. https://vimeo.com/126311258 Part 3: March 15, 2005: Leavell returns to discuss...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...documents the religious lives of the region’s black residents and evokes how people sacralize the landscape through spiritual expression. His images of the churches and cemeteries that dot the Delta’s...
Besieged Terrain
...the people who had destroyed them. Map showing Robinson Forest and surrounding sites of mountaintop removal and strip-mining, Robinson Forest, Kentucky, 2012. Map by Southern Spaces, created with Google Earth...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...privileged in static narratives or histories. The Ghost Map series, for example, is a composite of vector-based GIS layers, archival materials, and oral histories that document changes in the physical...