COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...everyone. A bevy of initial accounts present a broad historical outline of what happened—to date. However, potential pitfalls arise when these first reports go beyond chronicling pandemic events and enter...
In Memory Hill Cemetery
...have a Polaroid Land Camera 340, old as me purchased in the early seventies, inherited from great uncle Phineas. It works but every photograph is a ritual — no auto...
Climate Change & Coral Reefs: Global Challenges from a Caribbean Perspective
...and Caribbean coral reefs. His research and expertise has brought him to testify before Congress five times on environmental concerns, most recently on the effects of global warming on coral reefs....
Tuskegee Airmen: Brett Gadsden Interviews J. Todd Moye
...of the oral history program at the University of North Texas. A historian of the American civil rights movement, he directed the National Park Service's Tuskegee Airmen Oral History Project...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...very substance and availability of archival material, and how this material shapes the cinematic writing of history. Focusing so intently on archival fragments, actual and simulated, Wenders fetishizes traces that...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...in Women's Studies at Hamilton College. She is also a member of the graduate faculty of The Union Institute and University, a non-residential, alternative, PhD-granting university. Her areas of concentration...
Congregation
Congregation https://vimeo.com/134849755 Natasha Trethewey reads her poem "Congregation," 2010. View poem text here. National Park Service Gulf Islands Regional Map of Gulfport, Mississippi and the Gulf Coast About Natasha Trethwey...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...of speed limits. The written legal code and the enforcement efforts do not always affect what one encounters on the highway. Despite the legal sanctioning of memorial plantings and state...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...in the towns and cities. However, deep discount mortgages, the hyping of homeownership for all, and banks' bundling of high-risk debt, proved a devastating financial sleight-of-hand. The resulting economic crisis...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...narrative to leaven her historical treatment of black DC, and includes several extended oral histories that add flavor to Go-Go Live. This wide-ranging approach, however, leaves little room for nuance...