Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...sits atop an anchor between two casks pouring forth streams of water. The casks are marked "Mississippi" and "ombech," respectively, signifying the Mississippi River and the Tombechbee River, an antiquated...
Quilting Conversation
...working in New York in the 1970s, thanks in part to a 1971 exhibition at the Whitney Museum, Abstract Design in American Quilts, that put historical quilts in conversation with...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...land, Chang and Eng—two brothers formerly sold into indentured servitude and treated no better than slaves—began farming by using black slaves. Here our story takes a significant turn, entering what...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...2015. Bottom, lighthouse on Sapelo Island, Georgia, 2015. Screenshots courtesy of Southern Spaces. Perhaps the most scientifically significant legacy of Sapelo is its birthing of modern ecology, much of which...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...Ways (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996), 10. Historians have long noted the significance of Duden's Missouri boosterism,57Robert Frizell, Independent Immigrants: A Settlement of Hanoverian Germans in Western Missouri (Columbia:...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...epidemic in our community (Atlanta and the Southeast, specifically) and the quilt's significance as a memorial practice, you fixate on the pink flamingo—always standing, stationary, frozen in its tight stiches—to...
The Bulletin—April 24, 2013
...sands oil are "complex, energy-intensive, and expensive." While this spill is unusually large and has received significant media attention, it is but one of the hundreds of "significant incidents" involving oil pipeline spills...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...celebratory project (the uniqueness of the South vs. the significance of immigrants’ needs and contributions), they seek to protect the purview and integrity of the subject that they construct. Although...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...excerpts document experiences and events that occurred during the 1950s and 1960s, decades of significant social and cultural change nationally. The economic, political, and social landscape of Atlanta transformed dramatically...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...the Department of Art and Design at Missouri State University. He has received a number of awards for his photographic work including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts,...