The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...latest technology: Princess phones played recorded messages and elaborate electric maps traced troop movements. A Mercury space capsule proudly perched nearby, an incongruous and yet resonant symbol of the unified...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...begins by evoking the antebellum sensorium offered in an 1852 essay, "The Cultivation of the Senses," published in Harper's New Monthly Magazine that portrayed the senses as shapers of character...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...Trump kicked off his large presidential campaign rally in Mobile, Alabama, on August 21, 2015, by amplifying his hardline position on immigration: build a "Chinese wall" on the Mexican border,...
Palomares Bajo
...all, the bomb was "a good mile" from Simó's sighting. No surprise, given "powerful bottom currents." More concerned with activities topside, desperate fishermen and women protested against the three-month closure...
A City Divided
...whites attempted to remove historically black Morris Brown College to another part of the city. When blacks declined to move, whites drew and announced a boundary line to prevent what...
The Border South
...and the most blacks living within it. Along the border, though, Virginia was not alone in its staggering investment in slavery on the eve of the war. Kentucky held more...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...Act's Section 2 to make it more difficult to win a case challenging laws that restrict voting procedures.1 Steve Suitts, "Undoing the Voting Rights Act," Southern Spaces, July 12, 2021,...
The Chesapeake Bay
...they were not conservationists. They cleared lands and moved as necessary, their low numbers making little impact on the available resources (with the significant exception of white-tail deer which Indians...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...More recently, the work of public health includes: chronic diseases of the heart, lungs, and kidneys; diabetes, tobacco and alcohol use; air and water quality; nutrition and obesity; gun violence; prescription drug misuse; teen pregnancy; and motor vehicle injury and...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
.../ Those who wish to live in Hindustan will have to say 'Bande Mataram'" (Victory to the Mother, i.e., the mother goddess, who is also Mother India). In an echo of...