COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...response guidance with the catchphrase "follow the science," in effect denying knowledge gaps and glossing over judgment calls that informed their decisions.9Nason Maani and Sandro Galea, "What Science Can and...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...of democracy"—the extension of democratic ideals to a wide range of social relations. Oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico after a drilling rig exploded and sank off the coasts...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...(1993). He has served as mentor for a number of leading garden designers throughout the US South, including Sanchez. In the summer, Steve filmed a session with Gainey during which...
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...
Crespino's Strom Thurmond: The Last Jim Crow Demagogue and the First Sunbelt Conservative
In this short interview, historian Joseph Crespino discusses his new book, Strom Thurmond's America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2012), a political biography of South Carolina politician Strom Thurmond. Crespino explains how...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
...End of Southern Exceptionalism" conference held at Emory University in March of 2006, an event organized by Prof. Joseph Crespino of the Emory University History Department and Prof. Matt Lassiter...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...the Humanities and numerous private foundations. The VHS consulted with a roster of well-known historians.1The consulting historians include Stephen V. Ash, Charles F. Bryan, Jr., Catherine Clinton, Joseph T. Glatthaar,...
The Bulletin—November 29, 2012
...of both states are more clearly defined in this later map. Joseph Hutchins Colton, "North Carolina," 1855. From Colton, G. W., Colton's Atlas of the World Illustrating Physical and Political...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...narrator apologizes, "I should certainly omit such expressions as this, could I do so with historic fidelity." By 1853, Joseph Glover Baldwin presented in Flush Times in Alabama and Mississippi...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...Johnson, Remi Joseph-Salisbury, and Beth Kamunge (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018), 15–25. Recognizing that a statement of solidarity must live up to its words, we pledge the following: To...