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...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...for immigrants from Mexico who have come to live, work, and die in the United States (in quite significant numbers even in military service, to which the American establishment readily...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...Supreme Court called for re-argument of Dred Scott v. Sanford, leading to the majority opinion in March 1857, authored by Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, holding that persons of African...
1108 Dynamite Hill
...About the Authors Joseph Quintana earned his MA in Communication Studies from the University of Alabama in 2019. He recently received a screenwriting certificate from NYU Tisch School of the...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
O'er this wide extended country, Hear the solemn echoes roll, For a long and weary century, Those cries have gone from pole to pole; See the white man sway his...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...LB. Twarog's Politics of the Pantry is particularly timely, but one of my favorites is a 2019 episode with Jessica Wilkerson discussing her book To Live Here, You Have to...
Daffin Park
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Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...tide reveals complex dendritic drainage patterns in tidal creeks, with a road, telephone wires, and power lines as human influences on these environments. 1:53 – This is Cabretta Beach, with...
Three AM and the Stars Were Out
When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another farmer wanting me to lose half a night's sleep and drive some backcountry wash-out for miles, fix what...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...latest technology: Princess phones played recorded messages and elaborate electric maps traced troop movements. A Mercury space capsule proudly perched nearby, an incongruous and yet resonant symbol of the unified...