MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
Introduction By offering new tools to develop research questions, analyze data, and publish findings, digital mapping is transforming the humanities. During the spring of 2016, Emory University's "MAP IT |...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
Blog Post The activism of Appalachian women who took up the fight for justice in the 1960s and 1970s pulsed outward from a core ethic of care. Caregiving animated their...
Whiskey and Geography
...as well. On the frontier as well as back in the settlements, few had any moral problems with whiskey consumption. In fact, hospitality and courtesy of the day required offering...
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...by offering to license it. The market effect of enabling print-disabled access to library books—the court found there was no market for this under-served group, nor was one likely to...
Reuse, Author Choice, and the Open Access Spectrum: New Creative Commons Licenses for Southern Spaces Authors
Southern Spaces is now offering authors the option of distributing new work published in the journal under a Creative Commons license. Beginning in 2014, in addition to retaining copyright of...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...in France and its colonies from the nineteenth century forward, offering various comparisons to US violence. Carrigan's contribution with co-author Clive Webb on the decline of mob violence against Mexicans...
Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
...During Tom’s tenure as director, CDS has become an internationally recognized documentary arts institution, annually offering many undergraduate courses and continuing education classes leading to certificates. Integral to these educational...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...alternative to Stipe’s bouncy bass lines, offering up at times a dissonance that mimics a kid singing along to a her favorite pop tune. Stipe’s hooky bouncy bass, in turn,...
Darkly
...men bent in the diner's greasy light — as Mongtomery darkened beyond the window, each bus offering its insult or imagined slight — and planned to kill a man they'd...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?" "Summer Water and Shirley" By Durango Mendoza Originally published in Prairie Schooner, volume XL, number 3 (Fall 1966) It was in the summer that had...