The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...text-book for students and practitioners (Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1909), 192. Image uploaded by Flickr user Internet Archive Book Images. Image is in public domain. That the story...
Religion and the US South
...by John Rubens Smith. Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsca.05439/. Jews were an early presence in southern colonies, and by 1820 South Carolina had the largest...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...which General Assembly members sold millions of acres of Georgia's western lands to speculating companies. The 1795 sale included bribes to legislators, state officials, and other prominent Georgians. See C....
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...Technology Laboratory, "Coal Impoundment Location and Warning System," http://www.coalimpoundment.com/aboutimpoundments/spills.asp, November 10, 2006. Then, in December 2008, a coal ash spill in Tennessee resulted in 5.4 million cubic yards of coal...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...since 1965. His work has appeared in galleries in Georgia and Tennessee. He has extensively written about and photographed yard sales and estate sales for the past five years. return...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...corrupting effects of slavery. "The Mulatto" family tree and frame narrative structure. Illustration courtesy of the author. Séjour's character, Antoine, a proud, imposing, elderly slave raconteur, creates a narrative that...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...to the decimation of Louisiana's cypress forests) to increasingly complex thermo-, hydro-, and catalytic cracking processes. These processes separate oil into its constituent hydrocarbons, which then become a diverse array...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
Neither Eden nor Wasteland Ninety miles south of Florida lies the island that PBS's Nature calls the "Accidental Eden."1"Cuba: Accidental Eden," Nature, PBS (September 26, 2010), http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/cuba-the-accidental-eden/introduction/5728/. According to the...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...the National Women's Trade Union League, the National Child Labor Committee, the Chinese Working Women Network, and the International Labour Organization. By monitoring wages, working conditions, and human rights violations,...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2013&BillID=H937. There was also red meat for religious conservatives. During his 2012 campaign for governor, former Charlotte mayor Pat McCrory had promised to concentrate on promoting jobs while avoiding divisive...