MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration, edited by Jay A. Levenson (Washington DC: National Gallery of Art, 1991): 329–332. Long before the emergence of geographic information systems (GIS)...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...elsewhere, was too often written as the story of venerable and clever white practitioners. At least in these two fields—slavery studies and medical history—there was a long trail of prior...
"Aint that Something?"
...addiction, and oxy in particular, hit Eastern Kentucky hard. Recently, many users have been turning to heroin, the cheaper alternative. In 2013, there were estimates of over a thousand deaths...
Mississippi Delta
...a frontier of opportunity, a relatively undeveloped region without the long settled social arrangements of the eastern South and with land that could be richly productive if cleared. Blacks hoped...
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...by local weather conditions. Longshore drift – Lateral movement of sand along a shoreline by waves, causing a transport of sand from one part of a beach to another. Maritime...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...the gravestones leaned as if even the dead were listening. Three AM and the Stars Were Out When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...German settlement patterns and raises questions about longstanding assumptions regarding the presence of slavery as the determining factor in German settlement. Selected from a large number of submissions, these essays...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...cartography seem intrinsic to the project, although I sometimes wonder whether I should feel guilty about that kind of intervention. However, I think that as long as we are transparent,...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...car in the Quarter. Cell phones came out, some calling 911, others telling what happened. Word of mouth was that Joe the bar owner had shot the man for selling...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
Video and Essay https://vimeo.com/391985688 Ossabaw Island is a barrier island on the Georgia coast. The island, which trends northeast–southwest, is about 14.5 kilometers (9 miles) long and 10.5 kilometers (6.6...