Enchanting the Desert: Visualizing the Production of Space at the Grand Canyon
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Nicholas Bauch is assistant professor of GeoHumanities and director of the Experimental Geography Studio at the University of Oklahoma. In addition to...
Whiskey and Geography
...became far and away the primary grain of the Appalachians as well as the main ingredient for the liquor produced there. The corn varieties—called Indian corn by most—developed by the...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...simply refused to give a black farmer an application, denied the request outright, or stated that money for that program had been spent. At other times the farmer would receive...
The Bulletin—October 18, 2012
...in Appalachia marked the anniverary by highlighting legislative efforts with the potential to undermine the law and questioning its fair application. The organization Appalachian Voices published a report today titled...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...clock in the rubble showing the time Katrina came ashore. Nothing in these color photographs indicates that the devastation had occurred a year earlier; the damage appears recent. Todd Bertolaet...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...of voucher programs financed by state appropriations and state tax credits. Together these voucher programs are diverting more than $2.1 billion annually to private schools. That sum is larger than...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...other ones do. Martin: Right. That was one of the aspects that I appreciated is that you had to toggle back and forth between each of the images to appreciate...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...as the largest urban center in the American South could not be sidestepped. "The Games pose the question about just which image is closer to the real South," Peter Applebome...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...schools in a desperate attempt to convince federal courts that separate could be equal. White officials tried in vain to give the appearance of equality to spaces and institutions conceived...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...in, and worked as an apprentice for Sam Hamill and Tree Swenson at Copper Canyon Press, working for almost a year learning letterpress. The practice of poetry in Port Townsend...