Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
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Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...academic research into widely accessible digital exhibitions. Each LDHI exhibition includes narrative text vetted through an open peer review process with editorial contributors, and features digitized exhibition materials such as...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...and surrounding regions), I felt a special obligation to give something back in exchange for the many gifts of beauty and insight bestowed upon me over the years. Since I...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...a limited number of fabrics, but quiltmakers more often took advantage of the pattern's versatility to incorporate a variety of fabrics. As long as the majority of darker fabrics are...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...located east and west of downtown. Although most were common laborers, a small number, perhaps less than ten percent, stood above the masses by virtue of their occupation, education, or...
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....
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...a morning panel where they spoke about how issues of cosmopolitanism and nationalism affect their own areas of research. Maud spoke about the canonical implications of translating African American dialogue...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
..."Vanishing" Texan and the retrenchment of Texas masculinity. In "You a Real Cowboy?: Texas Chic in the Late Seventies," he reviews the iconic films The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...political geography to denote borderlands, especially ones to which members of subject or refugee populations migrated in large numbers to escape the pressures of the state and/or the capitalist economies...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...north. Over the first half of the nineteenth century, the numbers of enslaved in the District of Columbia declined. By 1850 (when Nannie was two years old) 3,185 of the 13,746...