Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
.... . A sickening, overpowering, awful stench announced the presence of the unburied dead upon which the July sun was mercilessly shining and at every step the air grew heavier...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...Deal and the Origins of Our Time (New York: Liveright, 2013). State Parks For Negroes Exhibit, State Fair Grounds, Richland County, South Carolina, 1958. Photograph by unknown creator, South Carolina...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...would do "better to be poor at home" than die abroad.22Ibid., 792. A representation of the cholera epidemic depicting the spread of the disease in the form of poisonous air,...
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...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...probably fair to say that such fantasies have exerted a persistent force on the study of the US South that, until recent years, has been predicated on difference, especially difference...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...as a national problem. The comma in the book's title American Coast, Imperiled Energy does more than its fair share of work, summarizing the argument in the space of a...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...was a distinct sense of anxiety in the air. Even with the presence of Sheriff's deputies inside and outside the church, speakers noted that shots might ring out out at...
The Bulletin—April 24, 2013
...half-mile radius of the blast. The cause of the blast is still unknown. The plant, which is owned by Adair Inc.'s West Fertilizer Company, produced anhydrous ammonia (a liquid crop...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...be a fair representation of NOLA gentrification. It was just before Hurricane Katrina that the neighborhood around NOCCA began to be seen as a hip option—at least in my experience....
The Bulletin—May 8, 2013
...the House. Former Congressman Sanford, despite causing a great scandal in 2009 by covering up a romantic affair in Argentina with a story about hiking the Appalachian Trail, ran against...