Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...Alabama, and Haralson, Carroll, and Heard Counties, Georgia. Alabama and Georgia Upcountry Sacred Harp Singings, 1995–2014 Alabama and Georgia Upcountry Sacred Harp Singings, 1995–2014. Interactive Map by Jesse P. Karlsberg...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...the activists caught the attention of Carson, who began investigating the impact of DDT across the country. That research culminated in the publication of Silent Spring in 1962, and Spears...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...here are at least twice that of the rest of the country. The people are mainly a rural, white population whose families have lived in Appalachia for generations, dating back...
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...populations Geographies of public services, education inequity, transportation, health, and safety Mass incarceration, internment, and the carceral state Public health and epidemiology Commercial, industrial, military, and residential geography Desegregation and...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...Georgia students came from suburban Atlanta and had grown up with a dose of post-civil rights movement Sunbelt optimism. Musician Vic Varney, a member of the Tone Tones and the...
An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim
Readings Rodney Jones reads the poem "Failed Memory Exercise." Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem "I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees." Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem "Homage To...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...a Sunday to vend vegetables and dance the Bamboula, squats in the park's southwestern corner, adjacent to the Municipal Auditorium. To jazz aficionados, it’s a spiritual site. Nowhere else in...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...of the country that, while intriguing and important, originally had little direct connection to the Mississippi River. While the authors pay attention to the concept of natural disaster and social,...
Cajun South Louisiana
...the Canary Islands, and such Native American tribes as the Houma, Bayou Goula, and Choctaw. A big aligator, about 800 lbs. Photograph by ST Blessing. Courtesy of The Miriam and...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...federal lawsuits challenging voting discrimination across the country. These Congressional amendments overturned a 1980 Supreme Court opinion that a law violated the Act only if intent to discriminate could be...