Sapelo Island Flyover
...Island National Estuarine Research Reserve. The UGAMI still serves as a thriving center for ecological research and hosts academic field trips in natural science education. In September, November, and December...
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History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...Street" (211). Campanella's meticulous archival and cartographic research draws on a wealth of primary sources—including census records, city directories, maps, and police reports—to demystify Bourbon Street and reveal its inner...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...Divinity degree and began working for SCLC under Abernathy’s direction. Taylor worked his way from research assistant to the directorship of the department of chapters and affiliates. By 1984, Taylor...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...Earth Summit in Stockholm brought together world leaders under the aegis of the United Nations to lay the foundation for global environmental governance. Various international gatherings stimulated research on the...
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...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...the Public Religion Research and Brookings Institutions' Religion, Values, and Immigration Reform Survey, Panel Call Back, Washington, DC: Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), released June 10, 2014. According to the...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...profitable use of inside information, Jackson, his friends, and his political allies secured some of the best properties, growing wealthy on the gold-rush economy of the cotton boom. In the...
2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
...The Best American Poetry, and in Nikki Giovanni's 100 Best African American Poems. Brown holds a PhD from the University of Houston, an MFA from the University of New Orleans,...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...to end segregation—before the fiftieth anniversary of the bus burning occurs in 2011. A racially violent past is best addressed not by erasing its traces on the landscape, but by...