Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...carry us into our history. They uncover buried pasts, helping us to explain unhealthy divides. Despite Florida's myths of paradise, we remain disconnected from the natural world, from the past...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...Walker Evans. Courtesy of the New York Public Library Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division, digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/96818680-baca-0132-6504-58d385a7b928. Bottom, Homes and land cultivation, Arthurdale project, Reedsville, West Virginia, 1935. Photograph by Walker...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...a braided field. Communication across various disciplinary approaches is also hindered by differing vocabularies, theoretical assumptions, and methodological techniques. Ironically, the very richness of interdisciplinary work in Appalachian Studies sometimes...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...of Health and Human Services Alex Azar, President Donald J. Trump, and Director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Dr. Robert R. Redfield listen as Dr. Stephan Monroe, CDC...
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker S. Wright Kennedy is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Rice University. His primary area of interest is the integration...
Place, Time, and Memory
...Alabama—from gourd trees, landscapes, vernacular buildings, and red dirt to the terror of the Ku Klux Klan—to create art that speaks to such broad themes as the depopulation of the...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...diseases like polio. However, it faces emerging health challenges, including the growing burden of noncommunicable diseases, heightened vulnerability to disasters and environmental hazards, and the threat of health emergencies during...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...state of emergency, disaster relief payments are not taxable. As such, ESA, and other groups like it, were able to provide direct aid through a less convoluted system of reporting...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...College Park; the Smithsonian Institution Archives; the District of Columbia Public Library Washingtoniana/People’s Archive Division and the Georgetown Library Peabody Room; the District of Columbia Archives; the National Archives and...
The Chesapeake Bay
...million bushels. By the 1920s the oyster harvest was reduced to 2 to 4 million bushels annually until the 1950s. Since the fifties several virulent diseases have crippled the oyster...