Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...keep in line, or to distinguish friend from foe. Many resorted to shooting blind. Somehow the Confederate forces prevailed, perhaps on account of their oft-remarked spine-tingling rebel yell. Incidents of...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...of ancient cemeteries that lie beneath economic development projects, and occupants of forlorn mounds—the beings who tie the living to the past and to the land. They have stories to...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...chief targets of civil rights lawyers in their fight to dismantle apartheid. During the 1960s, court-ordered desegregation rendered already sparsely-used Negro parks—once thought of as critical to the maintenance of...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...a memorial "of some kind."10See Paul Brinkmann, "Pulse Owner Says No Re-Opening Planned Yet," August 1, 2016, http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/pulse-orlando-nightclub-shooting/os-pulse-reopening-statement-20160801-story.html?ghj. A memorial "of some kind" would allow some young queer man or...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...their own critical readings of the history and culture of downtown Los Angeles, calling attention to the incongruities of that space. Screenshot of HyperCities Earth site with 1940 map of...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...to create new local traditions drawing on conceptions of their practices as tied to the histories of broad geographical expanses such as the "South" and "America," and to specific times...
Red J. Store on Carroll Street, ca. 1910–1920
...collection highlights materials on "Labor organizing" and "Labor strikes," offering a wealth of archival print resources related to millworkers' struggles to organize in the early twentieth century. After finding Cabbagetown...
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
..."A New Majority" documents that in four out of every five states, low-income students comprised 40 percent or more of all public schoolchildren. In 2013, 50 percent or more of...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...Ghana, Nigeria, and Dahomey (now part of Benin) to investigate multiple strands of cultural heritage on the African continent.1Biggers published a book after his trip titled Ananse: the Web of...
The Bulletin—August 21, 2012
...havoc on farmers and ranchers across a broad swath of the United States. On Monday the United States Department of Agriculture announced that it would buy $170 million of pork,...