Ossabaw Island Flyover
...the middle and eastern parts of the island between sediments of the Pleistocene and Holocene shorelines, dividing its maritime forests. The climate of Ossabaw is temperate to subtropical, with temperatures...
Whiskey and Geography
...cities, and they had a ready market for their products. From the Philadelphia elite on down to the redemptioners who worked for them, nearly all the easterners downed alcohol with...
The War the Slaveholders Won: Indian Removal and the State of Georgia
Presentation About the Speaker Claudio Saunt is Richard B. Russell professor of American History, co-director of the Center for Visual History, and associate director of the Center for Native American Studies at...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...theorization becomes most apparent where Dubcovsky vacillates between the historiographically loaded term—the “South”—and la tierra adentro. Dubcovsky devotes only a paragraph to explicating the decision to use "early South" to...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...the country, founded in 1772 (known today as the Dumbarton United Methodist Church).2The church was formerly located on Twenty-Eighth Street between M and Olive Streets, N.W. (formerly Montgomery Street between...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
Every week Miz Nell Weaver had us memorize a Bible verse, one for each letter of the alphabet. This was in the fourth grade, Centreville, Alabama, 1956. One by one,...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...Anniston's history, demonstrating, as Spears intends, that "local spaces are sites at which global processes take place" (17). The connection between Anniston's civil rights activism and its environmental activism is...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...homogenize culture, identity and experience. As Raymond Williams has shown, the tension between the country and the city has animated a pastoral tradition in the arts going back at least...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...citizens, who viewed vaccination as evidence of their country's modernization. Challenges to US medical imperialism represented one of the least risky ways for Venustiano Carranza's government to gain support, especially after...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...us that the best we can do in most cases is piece together bits of information about the lives of others. Given this incomplete knowledge, we're better off not passing...