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...Reviews Reviews are critical evaluations of recently published books, film, digital projects, music, events, and other art or scholarship that relate to the study of space and place in the...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...survey, they had a discrete number of questions that they asked across different neighborhoods, they made a map of it—this was exactly what we’d do with structured data, and they’d...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 7, 2009. Photograph by Mark Fischer. Courtesy of Mark Fischer. As our bulletins have previously reported, legislatures in a number of southern states...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...active local "MeetUp" group that boasts more than eight hundred members. There is an annual "Chicken Tour of Homes" in the spring, and I recently hosted a class of kindergarteners...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...2009 on American Routes. Beyond the recovery and revaluation of artists, the question was raised whether New Orleans jazz as a whole would again be heard regularly in the recently...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...of their images. That has changed in recent years thanks to the work of some dogged historians and archivists. Knowledge about local photographers has grown since the 1970s when scholars,...
Marginalization, Mobility, and Sunday Strolls on the Farm
...in the Atlanta metro area, analyzing the complex mobility politics of a southern urban center. A recent New York Times article highlights similar transportation issues plaguing rural communities in Texas....
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...poor medical care, and dismal prisoner-of-war treatment.4Freeman, The South to Posterity: An Introduction to the Writings of Confederate History, 204. The recent Civil War histories stress the complexity, ambiguity, fluidity,...
Birth Right
Birth Right: Video and Essay Birth Right. A short video by Neeta Kirpalani and Emily Jackson, 2008. Midwifery is controversial in Alabama, both legislatively and in debates about women's health...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...decade: Mann’s recent photographs of her husband, cave images from Whetstone’s recent series Post Pleistocene, and landscape pictures from Pamela Pecchio’s series On Longing, Distance, and Heavy Metal. Anyone familiar...