Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...southern culture. The images include romanticized moonshine runners evading the law, country singers meeting their fate in Cadillacs (the 1952 Cadillac Hank Williams died in attracts visitors in Mongomery, Alabama),...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...the sun setting behind the hills on the Bay of Portobelo on the Caribbean coast of the Republic of Panama. The view from my studio faces the remains of a...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...a result, they viewed their borderland as a reasonable and rational alternative to the growing sectional conflict elsewhere in the country" (14). Because the span of racial ideologies exhibited by...
Whiskey and Geography
Shooting Creek Making Whiskey in the Backcountry Whiskey making, while rare in southern England, was highly developed in both Scotland and Ireland by the time of the Ulster emigration. We...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...in the case of Pruitt-Igoe, but also inflected the reception and treatment of other public housing complexes in cities across the country.1The Pruitt-Igoe Myth, directed by Chad Freidrichs (Columbia, MO:...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...pick. It was very educational for me to see how labor worked in the countryside, how few people there were left doing farm labor, even for just a few hours...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...by the health program of BRAC, a Bangladesh-based NGO. Bangladesh, the eighth-most populous country in the world (169.4 million people), is a developing country located in South Asia with a...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...about poor country living in Louisiana, but one whose subjects are actually wealthy, performing poverty and capitalizing on nostalgia for old-fashioned living. or about "true crime" in rural areas, such...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...taken up hookworm and pellagra as challenges. Funding for health reform began to increase after World War I. New Deal spending doubled the number of county health departments, from 396 in...
Seneca Quarry
...The ARC Identifier is 3025595, MLR Number A1 18. Congratulations are in order for Professor Mark Auslander for publishing his well researched and excellent article, "Enslaved Labor and Building the...