Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...is the author of fourteen books of poetry, most recently Terroir, 2011. He has also published nine volumes of fiction, including Gap Creek, a New York Times bestseller. A sequel...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...nine young black men riding through Alabama on the Depression-era rails from Chattanooga to Memphis in search of work are often obscured today and absent altogether from many high school...
Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India
...time, it is said: best of all, through quick economic growth and expanding opportunities and education around the globe. I believe the present work is necessary also because, for all...
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker S. Wright Kennedy is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Rice University. His primary area of interest is the integration...
Climate Change & Coral Reefs: Global Challenges from a Caribbean Perspective
...worked extensively on coral reef ecology, especially the biology, ecology, and assessment of Floridian and Caribbean coral reefs. His research and expertise has brought him to testify before Congress five times on...
Elegy for the Native Guards
Poem Elegy for the Native Guards Now that the salt of their blood Stiffens the saltier oblivion of the sea . . . —Allen Tate We leave Gulfport at noon;...
Piedmont Blues
...talented blues guitarist of his era and is considered by some to be one of the best acoustic blues guitarists of all time. He was an itinerant songster, and his...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...the best sandwich. You walk back to your bungalow; people smile at you and comment on your huaraches, your straw hat: your carefully planned island wardrobe. You seem to fit...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...in any number of new temporal and spatial configurations" (54–55). While this observation is true of any map—as is the relationship between cartographic representation and a given culture's deepest ambitions...
"Little Switzerland"
"LITTLE SWITZERLAND, A Private Park that is Visited by a Large Number of People" "In considering the many improvements that are going on in various parts of the city, Little...