Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...easy for readers to bypass, particularly because modern reproduction obscures some of the details of this image, originally produced as a copperplate engraving in the mid-1770s. Yet it is worth...
Besieged Terrain
...wildlife. Because it uses heavy equipment, mountain top removal employs relatively few people. And because it's very profitable, the technique has spread. MTR has destroyed more than 1.4 million acres,...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...who, like the Mims, were directly affected by the town's chemical dramas, serves as a powerful "argument for reforming how we manufacture, use, and regulate toxic chemicals in the United...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...embraced the Choctaws. In their view, both groups were southerners with a mystical connection to the land; both had fought for a glorious cause against the despotic federal government; and...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...previous two films, 2008's Hunger and 2011's Shame, 12 Years a Slave is gorgeously shot, edited with a jeweler's eye, and uses its sound design to bleed scenes into one...
Emporia newspapers
The Emporia Times and Emporia Republican. "Nigger Assaults White Woman." July 14, 1905. NIGGER ASSAULTS WHITE WOMAN HOUSE OF MRS. LUSK ENTERED — NIGGER WAS CAPTURED AND IDENTIFIED BY...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...blankly, whether they noticed them or not. This is because "the South" has always been an imagined community, based in wish fulfillment and aspiration, that depends upon deliberate unlooking. It...
The Chesapeake Bay
...daily use of 1,600 million gallons, nearly double the use for agriculture or the public, and that water quality varied in the region with most of the pollution and problems...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...Mouth of the Mississippi, New Orleans, Louisiana, July 9, 2010. Photograph by Flickr user Adventures of KM&G-Morris. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. European Bodies, Climate, and the Geography of...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...meaningful outlet for this type of conversation in the epistemologically cloistered world of southern gospel" (11). Harrison now uses the blog to also engage and debate fans and detractors of...