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...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...Haunting of the Unified South" offers Hardwig's most sustained literary historical critique; it also finds him shifting somewhat abruptly from specific authors to specific localities. Questioning the centrality of Lost...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...materials a geographic coordinate. And the website offers suggestions for use in K-12 classrooms. Robert E. Howe, #7, Yellowstone Falls and Headwaters of the East Fork of the Pigeon River,...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...look at." Put another way, we only exist because someone looks at us. That is one of the greatest pleasures of writing dramas: feeling that one only offers a guide...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
Review Sensory history is an exciting new approach to writing history. It offers a fresh take on past perceptions. Sensing between the lines of written sources, the sensory historian recasts...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...and bureaucratic struggle over segregation. The history of these places offers new insights into the way states and localities utilized federal programs and dollars to bolster Jim Crow and extend...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...showing the locations of Brownsville, Laredo, and Eagle Pass, 1882. Courtesy of Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, catalog number 98688791. Fevered Measures surveys smallpox and yellow fever epidemics...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...Brothers, An Exhibit with an airplane made of cigars at the Florida State Fair, Tampa, Florida, 1941. Catalog no.: B29-f-00003493. Burgert Brothers, A man serenading a señorita at the Davis...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...Whitefield, and the Wesleys (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2003). Historian David Bebbington offers a succinct definition in "What is an Evangelical," National Association of Evangelicals, accessed July 6, 2014,...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...homosexuals." Bill Smith, Georgia State Capitol, Summer 1971 The television camera stared at Bill as he strode down the sidewalk. He wore his usual explosion of red-brown hair and goatee,...