Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...Louisiana plants from corporate offices, out to central research and development facilities, off to California refineries, back again to take the helm of a plant somewhere else along the river;...
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...Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy, which was long-listed for the National Book Award and a finalist for the PEN/Galbraith Award in non-fiction. Prof. Anderson’s research centers upon public policy, how racial inequality and racism...
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
..."The power of full-text searching and non-expressive research like text mining is growing more important to our faculty, students, and researchers, and is only possible with a digital library like...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...razed and an untold number of residents displaced in the name of progress. Nor is its future unclouded. Evening on Bayou St. John, New Orleans, between 1900 and 1906. Library...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...to a twenty-three million dollar campus in 2000, paid for by the state of Louisiana.1This is the number my wife (NOCCA '04) told me when I asked her on Gchat...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...Alabama has provided the setting for a number of influential studies on race, labor, and radicalism in the Jim Crow South. Yet in shifting attention from Scottsboro's sleepy courthouse square...
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...tide reveals complex dendritic drainage patterns in tidal creeks, with a road, telephone wires, and power lines as human influences on these environments. 1:53 – This is Cabretta Beach, with...
Three AM and the Stars Were Out
When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another farmer wanting me to lose half a night's sleep and drive some backcountry wash-out for miles, fix what...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...history, the smartphone-friendly tour provides GPS directions and mapping, historical information about each of its twelve stops, and multimedia content including video and historical images. It requires no download and...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...Afro-Indigeneity. On one level, “Tapera de Angola, or Palmares,” brings into intimate relation phonemes from three languages: “tapera”, an Indigenous Tupi word referring to a ruined or destroyed settlement; “Angola”,...