Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...the leading architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill (SOM) to design the town. SOM integrated cutting-edge elements of suburban design including curvilinear streets, cul-de-sacs, neighborhood units, and a greenbelt.8On...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...2021 gross domestic product per capita of $2,458. The country has achieved significant progress in reducing maternal, infant, and child mortality rates, decreasing malnutrition, improving immunization coverage, and eliminating infectious...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...of the knowledge gaps that impaired America's readiness and undercut its efforts to grapple with a new pathogenic peril, one for which danger signs were long evident. Failures in foresight were...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...Bob Marley," Publisher's Weekly, December 8, 2014. Cover of Ann Pancake's Strange as this Weather Has Been (Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press/Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007). Cover design by Gerilyn Attebery featuring...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...white males. Although they accounted for the vast majority of the clinic's caseload, white men have not received significant attention in VD historiography. Including their experiences adds new depth to...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...treatment in recent scholarship on desegregation. In her history of desegregation in New Orleans, Liva Baker describes the white mothers, called the "cheerleaders," as carrying signs that read "If your...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...the man in the grocery store, and the RC sign that announces Whitesburg, Kentucky. Other photos in this series feature outdoor pursuits such as gardening and fishing. In the captions...
The Liminal Site
...had been experiencing—"on the ground," as it were—for some time. I have invested a significant part of my career arguing for certain shared features of the United States and global...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...journey of Welcome to Fairyland? How long did the book take you to write? Is the finished project what you thought it would be when you started? Couples holding signs...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...College of Design. Boone works at the overlap between landscape architecture and environmental justice with specializations in democratic design, digital media, and interpreting cultural landscapes. He serves on the Board...