Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...cartographic representation in eastern North America—communication networks connected a wide geography well before Europeans arrived. The territory, however, looked dramatically different from that encountered by Europeans. Rather than power being...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...1, 1858 to July 31, 1874 (Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 1999), xix. The land in question is north of Q Street and east of Lyons (Mill) Road (now an extension of...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...contaminated dirt. Relying on small livestock and locally caught fish, promoted decades earlier as a progressive reform . . . ironically made them vulnerable to Monsanto's pollution as well. In circular...
MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection
Big City Bird’s Eye View. Artistic rendering by Dawud Anyabwile. Courtesy of Dawud Anyabwile. Antonio Valor. Character drawing by Dawud Anybwile. Courtesy of Dawud Anyabwile. Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives, and...
The Bulletin—June 12, 2012
...a Task Force on Digital Scholarship to assess the state of digital scholarship in the historical profession, evaluate tenure and promotion practices and graduate training, and issue guidelines for the evaluation...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
Review Jason Mellard's Progressive Country: How The 1970s Transformed The Texan in Popular Culture broadens our understanding of this musical style's dynamic role in negotiating the political contentions of a...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...marketing was focusing on the film's white stars (there was also a poster featuring Michael Fassbender, who at least has a lot of screen time) at the expense of its...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...which contains only one mixed-blood character, the significantly named Dilsey, avoids issues of race while promoting regeneration through capitalism. Known for its sentences of over eighty lines in search of...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
Review The present system of flood control in the Mississippi Valley is a compromise resulting from a long and complicated interplay among interest groups. The current solution to the problem...
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: A Gilded Age Story of the West and the South in Washington, DC
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: Part 2: White describes the lengths both men went to in an attempt to gain subsidies and credit for their respective railroads Part 3: White shows...