Failed Memory Exercise
The water tank above the trees, and then the town, Lord God, the sudden, blunt, exhilarating shock Of pavement against the chert of the bottom road, Bare schoolyard, white clinic,...
The Chesapeake Bay
...Engineering Center. Some of the most exciting scholarship on the Chesapeake Bay emerged out of a recent series of National Science Foundation-sponsored conferences between historians, geologists, paleobiologists, archaeologists, and environmental...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...Chapman. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in public domain. Bottom, Confederate submarine which sank the Housatonic, ca. 1900. Schematic by unknown creator. Originally published in The Popular Science Monthly...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...power to provoke and to disturb. About the Author James Taylor Carson is head of the school of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University, Brisbaine, Australia. His research...
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...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...Yet many of them would die in disproportionate numbers on the island during the peak years of the AIDS epidemic. You need look no further than the many Hispanic names—names...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
Review HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities explores the distinct but often overlapping epistemological frames of humanities and social sciences scholarship that incorporates GIS technologies. A companion to HyperCities...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...band director stationed at Fort McPherson, Georgia—explicitly framed his singing school as teaching the style of Sacred Harp singing practiced in West Georgia in the early 1970s. Other singing teachers...
Red J. Store on Carroll Street, ca. 1910–1920
...using the collection's browse function, I discovered a number of striking images of my neighborhood, including an unattributed photograph from the early twentieth century depicting a store called Red J....
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
The Southern Education Foundation's 2015 research bulletin reports that for the first time in over fifty years, a majority of schoolchildren attending the nation's public schools come from low-income families....